Sr. Director of Product, Foundations (Emerging Technology)

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job CategoryProduct Job Details About SalesforceSalesforce 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. OverviewWe're hiring a senior product leader to own the foundational technology strategy that enables the DET organization and beyond at Salesforce. This role focuses on platforms, shared tooling, data foundations, and cloud infrastructure that improve reliability, speed to market, and developer productivity. This role reports to the SVP of Emerging Technology and partners closely with the VP, Product, Emerging Technology.Why Join UsOperate like an innovation lab while building the standards and capabilities that power multiple teams. You'll turn strategy into durable foundations, simplify complex crossorg execution, and raise the bar on technology enablement across DET.What You'll Do * Define and drive platform strategy to drive experimentation, telemetry and observability across DET * Translate complex projects into a phased and sequenced roadmap with milestones that deliver value along the way * Establish shared tooling and orchestration patterns so teams can reuse capabilities instead of rebuilding each time * Enable realtime and eventdriven use cases by ensuring runtime readiness, governed data access, safeguards, and feedback loops * Lead crossfunctional execution with engineering, architecture, data, security, and product partners; unblock dependencies and align resources * Communicate with clarity through decision memos, program updates, and tradeoff proposals * Mentor PMs and elevate product quality across platform and partner teamsKey Requirements * 10+ years of product management, 4+ years leading platform/infrastructure/data products at enterprise scale * Depth in APIs and services: lifecycle and versioning, eventing, entitlements, perimeter and runtime governance * Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred), environment strategy, real-time data pipelines and observability * Strong data platform background: pipelines, contracts, quality, lineage, governance; pragmatic graph/semantic approaches * Familiarity with enabling AI workloads as a platform customer requirement * Proven crossorg program leadership delivering measurable improvements in reliability, speed, and developer experience * Exceptional written and verbal communication with executive presence * Comfort with ambiguity and influence without authority across senior stakeholders * Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience * 10+ years of product management, 4+ years leading platform/infrastructure/data products at enterprise scale * Depth in APIs and services: lifecycle and versioning, eventing, entitlements, perimeter and runtime governance * Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred), environment strategy, real-time data pipelines and observability * Strong data platform background: pipelines, contracts, quality, lineage, governance; pragmatic graph/semantic approaches * Familiarity with enabling AI workloads as a platform customer requirement * Proven crossorg program leadership delivering measurable improvements in reliability, speed, and developer experience * Exceptional written and verbal communication with executi