Senior Engineering Manager, Design Systems & Accessibility

salesforce.com, inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 208,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, highly collaborative leader for our Slack Kit & Accessibility engineering team. This role owns Slack Kit, Slack's design system and frontend component library, powering every surface across Slack while championing accessibility as a foundational practice.

You will partner with design, product, and engineering to define strategy, set technical direction, and evolve the UI infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading software engineering teams.
• Experience as a Senior+ Frontend Software Engineer.
• Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers.
• Experience communicating with users, other tech teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• An understanding of how and where AI software development tooling can be deployed for maximum team impact.
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive Slack's accessibility strategy, partnering with teams across Slack to ensure new and existing UX patterns are accessible and usable by everyone.
• Own and continually evolve Slack Kit, Slack's design system and component library, to deliver a consistent experience for end users while making it fast and easy for designers and engineers across the company to build product features.
• Help set technical direction and facilitate execution for major Frontend Engineering initiatives, such as modernizing Slack's CSS architecture.
• With IC leads, develop clear roadmaps and milestones to enable the team to execute on multi-quarter projects.
• Provide regular feedback, coaching, and seek out growth opportunities for your team to help them continually level up technically and grow their careers.
• Build a sustainable high performing team and a work environment that's both supportive and challenging.

Skills

Team leadership

Senior frontend engineer

Strong communication

Hiring & mentoring

Requirements gathering

AI tooling familiarity

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, highly collaborative leader for our Slack Kit & Accessibility engineering team. This role owns Slack Kit, Slack's design system and frontend component library, powering every surface across Slack while championing accessibility as a foundational practice.

You will partner with design, product, and engineering to define strategy, set technical direction, and evolve the UI infrastructure.