Senior Director, Content Design - Slack

100 Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

401(k)

Employee stock purchasing program

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a senior leader to build and scale a high-performing content design team for Slack’s AI-powered experiences. You will drive language systems, ensure UX consistency, and partner with product leadership to shape the future of our AI-native interfaces.

You will mentor designers, champion career growth, and steward cross-functional collaboration with design, product management, and engineering to deliver high-impact, user-centric content strategies.

Qualifications

• Deep content design background with strong UX craft and experience designing content systems that cut cross‑platform confusion.
• Experience managing content design teams, ideally including Help or support content, with a track record of growing strong ICs and leaders.
• Experience leading distributed teams.
• Executive presence: you can explain the value of language systems clearly and influence product decisions at the senior level.
• Excellent track record of cross-functional collaboration; AI fluency grounded in judgment.
• You're excited about what AI makes possible and willing to engage with its ethical tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of content designers who define how natural language, both written and spoken, shapes how people and agents work together in Slack.
• Champion your team's careers through performance, promotion, and growth conversations, and help them through people logistics like relocation and sabbaticals.
• Champion content design at the executive level, and own naming, terminology, and language decisions with product leadership.
• Partner with product design, product management, and engineering to make content design a core part of how Slack builds.
• Raise the bar on content craft and quality across AI-native experiences and traditional UI.
• Evolve team operations with the team, building on what works and creating clear paths for feedback to flow up.
• Lead and advocate for Help Center, including its content strategy, vendor partnerships, and cross-functional ownership.

Skills

Content design

Team management

Distributed teams

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

AI fluency

Job description

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

What You'll Be Doing & Why It Matters

Slack is at an inflection point. We're evolving from the world's most beloved team communication tool into something fundamentally new: an AI operating system where humans and agents work together to get things done. Built on the context of your work, Slack becomes a single, personalized command center that replaces fragmented apps, inboxes, and point solutions. As agents take on more of the work, the words between humans and machines carry more weight than ever. They set expectations, signal intent, earn trust, and keep people in control. Content design is a key part of what makes Slack feel like Slack. As the platform evolves, content designers as language experts will be at the center of defining these new experiences. We're looking for a leader with deep UX and content craft, that is excited about defining the evolution of work and the judgment to work through the hard tradeoffs AI brings. You'll grow a high-performing team of content designers, champion their work and careers, and make content design a core part of how Slack builds its future.

How you'll lead

• You lead through coaching. You help designers make and own their decisions instead of speaking for them
• You lead through advocacy. You open doors, add influence behind key decisions and protect your team's focus to help amplify their work.
• You trust the team to set its areas of focus, and you build on the momentum that's already there
• You look for growth opportunities for everyone on the team
• You bring a growth mindset and real curiosity to a discipline that's changing fast

Core Responsibilities & Scope

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of content designers who define how natural language, both written and spoken, shapes how people and agents work together in Slack.
• Champion your team's careers through performance, promotion, and growth conversations, and help them through people logistics like relocation and sabbaticals
• Champion content design at the executive level, and own naming, terminology, and language decisions with product leadership
• Partner with product design, product management, and engineering to make content design a core part of how Slack builds
• Raise the bar on content craft and quality across AI-native experiences and traditional UI
• Evolve team operations with the team, building on what works and creating clear paths for feedback to flow up
• Lead and advocate for Help Center, including its content strategy, vendor partnerships, and cross-functional ownership

Minimum Requirements

• Deep content design background with strong UX craft, and experience designing content systems that cut cross-platform confusion and keep language consistent across products, surfaces, and devices
• Experience managing content design teams, ideally including Help or support content, with a track record of growing strong ICs and leaders.
• Experience leading distributed teams
• Executive presence: you can explain the value of language systems clearly and influence product decisions at the senior level.
• Excellent track record of cross-functional collaboration AI fluency grounded in judgment.
• You're excited about what AI makes possible and willing to engage with its ethical tradeoffs

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• an employee stock purchasing program

Salary

The typical base salary range for this position is $218,400 - $365,200 annually.

In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually.

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