Senior Engineering Manager- Design Systems & Accessibility

Salesforce, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Mental health support

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce's Slack Kit & Accessibility engineering team in New York is seeking a technically strong Senior Frontend Engineer to lead the Slack Kit and drive accessibility across the product.

You will partner with Product and Design to set strategy, own Slack Kit, and guide frontend initiatives, including modernizing CSS, with clear roadmaps and mentoring to grow the team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading software engineering teams.
• Experience as a Senior+ Frontend Software Engineer.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (or equivalent).
• Nice to have: design systems/UI component libraries.
• Experience deploying AI tooling to boost team impact.

Responsibilities

• Drive Slack's accessibility strategy with Product and Design partners.
• Own Slack Kit and design system to ensure a consistent UX across surfaces.
• Set technical direction for frontend initiatives, including CSS modernization.
• Develop roadmaps and milestones with IC leads for multi-quarter projects.
• Provide feedback, coaching, and growth opportunities for the team.
• Build a high-performing, supportive and challenging team environment.

Skills

Team leadership

Senior Frontend Engineer

Communication skills

Mentoring engineers

AI tooling awareness

Education

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

Tools

Design systems

UI component libraries

Job description

Job Category Software Engineering Job Details 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. Slack is looking for a technically strong, highly collaborative, and passionate leader for our Slack Kit & Accessibility engineering team! This team builds and maintains Slack's UI design system and frontend component library (Slack Kit) that powers every surface across Slack, all while championing accessibility as a first-class part of how Slack is built. The team partners closely with design and product engineering teams across the company to ensure new and existing features meet a high bar for usability, consistency, and accessibility.

What you will be doing

With your Product and Design counterparts, drive Slack's accessibility strategy, partnering with teams across Slack to ensure new and existing UX patterns are accessible and usable by everyone, including users relying on screen readers and keyboard navigation. 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.

Required Skills

3+ years leading software engineering teams. Previous experience as a Senior+ Frontend Software Engineer. Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational, and time management skills. Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers. Experience communicating with users, other technical 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. Nice to have: Experience with design systems and/or UI component libraries. Experience championing the needs of people, use cases, or initiatives outside your own lived experience or day-to-day work.

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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Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including:

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

More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

Final Statement

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.