Senior Product Manager, Project & Program Management, Emerging Technology

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 172,500 - 260,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to shape emerging technology capabilities

Innovative, inclusive company culture

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join the Emerging Technology team in San Francisco. You will partner with product owners and cross-functional teams to drive successful project execution in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of program management experience and is comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity while empowering teams to achieve project goals efficiently.

This role offers the opportunity to influence how cutting-edge capabilities are built and delivered within the company.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in program management or product management within enterprise technology.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Deep comfort operating in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product owners to plan and execute projects.
• Drive cross-functional coordination across teams.
• Create clarity on project status and risks.

Skills

Program management

Technical program management

Cross-functional project management

Agile methodologies

AI fluency

Education

Technical degree

Tools

Linear

Job description

Job Category

Product

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.

About The Role

Emerging Technology is Salesforce's 0-to-1 engine — the team that discovers, builds, and proves out new capabilities as Customer Zero before handing them off to scale. As Senior Product Manager for Project & Program Management, you’ll be the person who helps product owners cut through the noise.

You won’t own a product portfolio; instead, you will embed directly with PMs, engineers, designers, and cross-functional partners to bring structure to ambiguity, clear blockers, and help the team execute at the pace this work demands.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with product owners: Work side-by-side with PMs to plan, sequence, and execute their projects. Help break big problems into shippable milestones and hold the line on scope and timelines.
• Drive cross-functional coordination: Own the coordination layer across engineering, design, data, security, and partner teams. Proactively identify dependencies and get ahead of blockers before they stall progress.
• Navigate partner team complexity: ET projects almost always touch other orgs — help PMs understand and manage the nuance of cross-org work so nothing falls through the cracks.
• Run project cadences: Stand up and facilitate the right rituals for each project — standups, milestone check-ins, sprint reviews, and stakeholder syncs. Keep them lightweight and useful, never ceremonial.
• Create clarity on status and risk: Maintain honest, clear project health updates that give leadership visibility without creating overhead for the PMs doing the work. Surface risks early and facilitate trade-off decisions.
• Enable PM effectiveness: Help product owners level up their execution skills — coach them on communicating status, running effective meetings, and navigating the organizational dynamics that come with 0-to-1 work inside a large company.
• Drive continuous improvement: Run retrospectives, identify what’s slowing the team down, and iterate on how projects are managed so the team keeps getting faster.

Required Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• 5–8 years of experience in program management, technical program management, or product-oriented product management within enterprise technology.
• Proven track record of driving complex, cross-functional projects to completion across multiple teams and orgs simultaneously, managing dependencies and competing priorities without losing momentum.
• Deep comfort operating in ambiguity — you move fast, cut scope when needed, and optimize for outcomes over process without waiting for perfect information.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills: you can translate messy project dynamics into clear, honest updates for executives and individual contributors alike, and build trust quickly with PMs, engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Fluency in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) with the judgment to adapt frameworks to what the team actually needs.
• AI fluency: comfortable using AI tools to accelerate work, remove bottlenecks, and help teams ship faster.
• Hands-on experience with modern project management tools like Linear, with a perspective on how tooling can improve team velocity and visibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within or alongside internal platform or infrastructure teams at a large technology company.
• Familiarity with Salesforce's product and engineering org structure.
• Background in 0-to-1 product development or innovation programs.
• Experience coaching or mentoring product managers on execution practices.
• A related technical degree.

What’s In It For You

This is an opportunity to work at the center of one of Salesforce’s most exploratory and fast-moving teams — influencing how cutting-edge capabilities are built and delivered across the company.

You’ll have direct impact on how the Emerging Technology team operates, with room to shape the function itself.

The team moves with startup speed inside one of the world’s most trusted technology companies.

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.

Accommodations

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Posting Statement

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Compensation

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 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.