Senior Director, Platform Design & AI Ecosystem

salesforce.com, inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, in partnership with Slack, seeks a Senior Director of Product Design - Ecosystem to own the platform design vision for developer experiences across Slack's platform. You will lead a small design team while remaining hands-on, guiding agents, marketplaces, and partner integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, and GitHub.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering leadership to shape strategy, drive end-to-end platform design, and set high craft standards while mentoring

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience, including work on developer-facing or highly technical products.
• Experience managing and growing design teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI and vibe-coding tools, and a solid understanding of developer workflows.
• A track record of partnering with product and engineering leadership to define and refine product direction through design.

Responsibilities

• Design Vision: Hold and refine the long-range design vision for the platform, in close partnership with product and engineering leadership
• End‑to‑End Platform Design: Drive design across the full developer lifecycle: defining what agents do in Slack, agent creation, install and management, and marketplace discovery
• Partner Experience: Shape how partners building on Slack (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and more) bring their agents into the ecosystem
• Hands‑On Craft: Contribute directly to the design work as a player‑coach, setting the craft bar for the team
• Team Leadership: Grow and develop the platform design team, owning staffing and career development for the designers on it

Skills

Platform design

Team leadership

AI experience

Cross-functional

Developer ecosystem

Job description

Salesforce, in partnership with Slack, seeks a Senior Director of Product Design - Ecosystem to own the platform design vision for developer experiences across Slack's platform. You will lead a small design team while remaining hands-on, guiding agents, marketplaces, and partner integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, and GitHub.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering leadership to shape strategy, drive end-to-end platform design, and set high craft standards while mentoring