Senior Product Manager, Salesforce Platform

100 Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks an experienced Senior Product Manager to join the Salesforce Platform Center of Excellence. You will shape internal platform tools, environments, and governance to keep platforms secure and efficient while collaborating with engineering, product, and executives.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in product management, deep platform knowledge, and a proven record delivering complex Salesforce-based solutions. mentorship and AI-assisted PM workflows are valued.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management or product strategy with strong technical literacy.
• Deep understanding of the Salesforce Platform - customization, user management, integrations, security and observability.
• Proven track record delivering complex, transformative products on the Salesforce Platform.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams, with Agile/Scrum proficiency.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven decision making.
• Ability to explain complex ideas to non-technical audiences and influence stakeholders.
• At least one Salesforce Platform certification.
• Demonstrated AI fluency with conversational AI or AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Shape product strategy and roadmap for Salesforce Platform Center of Excellence.
• Partner with Core Product, lines of business, and engineering plus executives to align development.
• Own the roadmap, identify risks, and make prioritization decisions with transparent communication.
• Lead end-to-end feature delivery from research to design and engineering to ship.
• Mentor other product managers and raise the PM bar across the team.
• Use AI tools throughout the lifecycle to synthesize feedback and prototype with engineering and design.

Skills

Product management

Technical literacy

Agile / Scrum

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Education

Salesforce Platform certification

Related technical degree

Tools

Salesforce Platform

APIs

Claude

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.

About the Role

Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) blazes the trail of enterprise IT at Salesforce, built on the foundation of our core values - Trust, Ohana, Innovation. We own the world's foremost Salesforce Platform along with many other internal orgs, powering the tools our business stakeholders rely on to do their best work. We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to join our Salesforce Platform Center of Excellence team. In this role, you'll help keep our internal Salesforce instances secure, productive, and efficient by shaping the tools and applications that align with platform standards, guidelines, and best practices - with deep focus on platform security, environments, access, and governance.

What You'll Be Doing

• Conduct internal business analysis and use data and user feedback to inform product strategy, weigh value against effort, and iterate on features that improve user experience and business outcomes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams - including Core Product, lines of business, and engineering - and engage executives and senior stakeholders to keep product development cohesive and aligned.
• Own the product roadmap, identifying risks early and making prioritization calls that balance short-term needs against long-term goals, while communicating transparently to build stakeholder trust.
• Lead feature delivery end-to-end - from user research and user stories through UX design, prototyping, and working with engineering to build, test, and ship - while driving awareness and adoption internally.
• Mentor other product managers and team members, helping raise the bar on product management practice across the team.
• Use AI tools throughout the product development lifecycle - synthesizing feedback, drafting lightweight specs, and rapid prototyping with engineering and design.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management or product strategy with strong technical and product literacy.
• Deep understanding of the Salesforce Platform - customization, user management configuration, integrations and APIs, security, and observability, across at least one Salesforce cloud or platform.
• A proven track record of delivering complex, transformative products or solutions on the Salesforce Platform.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams, with proficiency in product management tools and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - able to translate business and technical requirements into a coherent product strategy and use data to drive roadmap decisions and prioritization.
• Ability to explain complex, technical ideas clearly to non-technical audiences, with the organizational, written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to influence and negotiate with cross-functional stakeholders.
• At least one of: Salesforce Platform App Builder, Administrator, or Platform Foundations certification.
• Demonstrated AI fluency, with hands-on experience in conversational AI, real-time agents, or AI quality and evaluation. Able to speak to outcomes driven by using AI across PM workflows, and to build working prototypes with AI-assisted tools (e.g. Claude, vibe-coding tools).

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Agentforce Specialist Certified Product Manager, with experience in Agile/Scrum techniques.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies and integrations.
• A related technical degree.

Why Join?

You’ll shape the platform that powers Salesforce's own internal business - with real influence over the standards, governance, and tools thousands of employees depend on every day. You’ll work alongside a team that values transparency and mentorship, with room to grow your product craft while helping others do the same. 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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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. 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), and 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.

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