SFDC BA / Product manager

VARITE INC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 171,924,000 - 229,233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plans

Legal Service Plans

Job summary

VARITE INC. in Palo Alto, CA seeks an experienced SFDC BA/Product Manager to lead Salesforce project lifecycles for a 4-month engagement. You will align stakeholders, manage vendors, and drive agile delivery across Sales/Service/CPQ modules, with a focus on governance and security.

You must excel in stakeholder communication, possess Salesforce PM experience, and drive adoption while coordinating complex change across business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Business (MBA preferred).
• 10+ years in project management with 5+ years managing Salesforce projects.
• Strong Salesforce ecosystem knowledge across Sales/Service/CPQ.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall; Scrum Master or PMP a plus.
• Salesforce certifications preferred; Administrator/Platform App Builder/PM credentials.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to balance priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Salesforce project lifecycle from planning to closure.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate with Salesforce admins, developers, architects, and vendors.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, budgets, risks and issues.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and ensure adherence to methodology.
• Manage change requests with impact analysis and approvals.
• Ensure Salesforce best practices, governance, and security standards.
• Provide regular status updates and executive-level reporting.
• Drive user adoption through training and change management.
• Escalation point for issues; resolve quickly and efficiently.
• Support post-go-live hypercare and release management cycles.
• Understand mid-term contract amendments, add-ons, and renewals.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Agile

Waterfall

Salesforce expertise

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Business

MBA preferred

Tools

JIRA

Asana

MS Project

Copado

NetSuite

Salesforce (Sales Cloud/Service Cloud/CPQ)

Job description

VARITE is looking for a qualified SFDC BA/Product manager - 26-00347 in Palo Alto, CA 94304

What do we do?

Established in the Year 2000, VARITE is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850+ global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.

Job Title:

SFDC BA/Product manager

Location:

3495 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Duration:

4 months

Pay Rate:

$60/hr - $80/hr on W2

What the client does?

Our client is a Security and AI company. We help organizations achieve cyber resilience by securing their data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS environments protecting against ransomware, accelerating recovery, and turning data into intelligence. As AI reshapes how enterprises operate and defend themselves, our AI Engineering team builds the agentic systems that make our platform smarter, faster, and more autonomous.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end Salesforce project lifecycle, including planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define project scope, requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate with Salesforce admins, developers, architects, and third-party vendors to ensure seamless execution.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including resource allocation, budgets, risks, and issue tracking.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and ensure adherence to project methodology.
• Manage change requests, ensuring impact analysis and approvals are properly handled.
• Ensure compliance with Salesforce best practices, governance, and security standards.
• Provide regular status updates and executive-level reporting on project progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive user adoption by supporting training, change management, and stakeholder communications.
• Act as the escalation point for project-related issues and work to resolve them quickly.
• Support post-go-live hypercare, triage production defects, and manage enhancement requests within a structured release management cycle."
• Deep functional understanding of mid-term contract amendments, including add-ons, upsells, downgrades, early renewals, cancellations, and co-terming logic
• Partner with Sales Ops, Customer Success, and Finance to define key SaaS/recurring revenue metrics (e.g., ARR/MRR, Churn, Net Revenue Retention (NRR), and Renewal Rates) and reflect them in system reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 10+ years of project management experience, with at least 5 years managing Salesforce projects.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce ecosystem (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, CPQ, etc.).
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies; Scrum Master or PMP certification is a plus.
• Salesforce certifications (Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Project Manager/Consultant credentials preferred).
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with tools such as JIRA, Asana, or MS Project for project tracking.
• Familiarity with Salesforce integration tools (NetSuite).
• Exposure to release management and DevOps tools (Copado).
• Ability to manage vendor relationships and contracts.

BENEFITS:

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement Plans: Participation in a company-sponsored retirement savings plan
• Legal Service Plans - Offering access to attorneys for legal advice and representation

VARITE has a robust Candidate Referral Fee plan where you will receive a one-time referral fee if the referred candidate successfully works with VARITE on an assignment for at least 1 month or 160 Hours.

VARITE is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.