Technical Program Management Senior Manager

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce Trust and Infrastructure is seeking a Technical Program Manager to steer large-scale, cross-functional initiatives across hyper-scale infrastructure, including networking, security, and scalability. This is a high-impact individual contributor role partnering with senior leaders to translate vision into execution.

You will drive end-to-end program planning, execution, and delivery, focusing on Identity and Access, Data Security, Network Security, and Technical Resilience, leveraging

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience leading large-scale, complex infrastructure programs with measurable business impact.
• Proven ability to establish credibility with senior executives and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated exceptional executive communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with enterprise systems and public cloud services (networking, compute, storage) is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technical program planning and delivery for infrastructure programs including Identity and Access, Data Security, Network Security, and Technical Resilience.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders to align objectives and optimize delivery using agile methodologies.
• Lead regular reviews with stakeholders, provide status updates, remove obstacles, manage dependencies, and mitigate risks.
• Promote a collaborative, autonomous, and learning-oriented environment while advancing security strategy globally.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Agile leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Job description

The Experience

At Salesforce Trust and Infrastructure, Technical Program Managers (TPMs) are pivotal in steering large-scale, cross-functional initiatives. As the TPM working on the Salesforce Trust Platform, you’ll spearhead the strategic evolution of Hyperforce everywhere, including networking and connectivity services, security, and scalability, across all operating zones and all customers. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role where you’ll partner with senior leadership to translate vision into reality, driving cross-functional planning and execution. Experience with large-scale infrastructure programs, Network security, Data Security, Identity and access management is highly desirable.

You’ll be the champion for executing and delivering consistent developer, operator and user experience across all substrates while retaining the highest bar of security, privacy, availability, data residency, compliance and scalability that Hyperforce offers. We’re looking for a proven TPM, a passionate infrastructure expert, a proactive problem solver, and a change agent who thrives on tackling complex challenges. Your expertise in enterprise systems, public cloud services, such as networking, compute, and storage will be essential in delivering tangible business value. If you have a proven track record of leading large, complex programs and are eager to shape the future of Salesforce’s infrastructure, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

• Take ownership and accountability of technical program planning and delivery for programs in Identity and Access, Data Security, Network Security, Technical Resilience, using demonstrated strong analytical and technical skills. Drive major uplifts in infrastructure across services such as Compute, Storage, Networking, and Identity. Translate business objectives into execution strategy (tactical and strategic), lead and successfully execute the strategy through strong collaboration and agile leadership.
• Develop trusted relationships with key technology and functional stakeholders to drive focus on the strategic program objectives and optimize delivery. This includes supporting and holding resources accountable for their responsibilities within the program. Utilize agile methodologies and product development lifecycle to successfully partner with product and engineering organizations. Collaborate with senior managers and engineers to architect and develop the best technical and operational design and approach, delivering value quickly to customers. Initiate programs and create alignment on program planning. Bring teams together to define the business objectives, program structures, and cross-functional support necessary to succeed.
• Lead regular review meetings with key stakeholders. Provide transparent updates, help drive key decisions, pro-actively remove obstacles, manage dependencies across teams, identify risks and address key program issues. Provide regular visibility to program status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics, etc.) through status reporting to all stakeholders. Ensure data is collected to appropriately inform decision-making for mitigating risks and resolving issues. Drive for clarity to keep teams moving forward, ensure business objectives are met and each program delivers on its commitments.
• Utilize internal tools and an agile mindset to create a collaborative environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation, and learning; promotes continuous improvement. Be a thought leader within the organization, someone who can help advance our security strategy globally and challenge others to move beyond the current state. Pursue continuous growth through professional development and proactively seeking and adopting constructive feedback.

You’re Our Person If…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience in technical leadership. Advanced management degrees preferred.
• 8+ years of recent experience leading large-scale, complex infrastructure programs with proven impactful business outcomes.
• Establish and maintain strong credibility and rapport with senior executives, technical experts, and cross-functional team members.
• Demonstrate exceptional executive communication and presentation skills.

Even Better If…

• Ability to understand a wide array of technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program
• Demonstrated passion for understanding ambiguous, sophisticated problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust technical solutions
• Experience with creating detailed reporting and dashboards
• Experience working with large data sets to drive changes in long term trends