Salesforce

SVP, Software Engineering, Platform

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $371,000 - $494,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead the development, delivery, and adoption of foundational cross-cutting Agentforce Experience Layer (AXL) technology
  • Incubate and deliver innovative AI-driven experiences and experience building tools, pro code through low code.
  • Partner with various organizations, such as Agentforce, to deliver an end-to-end Agentic experience for customers.
  • Apply AI thoughtfully and strategically to enhance product capabilities, user experiences, and developer productivity
  • Champion the use of AI to accelerate engineering workflows, including test code generation, debugging assistance, and code quality improvements
  • Responsible for managing the primary UI frameworks (Lightning Web Components, React, Aura) on the platform that power B2B, B2C, and B2E experiences across desktop and mobile.
  • Lead the UI product, performance, stability, and accessibility initiatives of the core Salesforce App (Lightning Experience), requiring oversight of execution as well cross-organizational influence and collaboration.
  • Own the declarative app building experiences that enable customers, partners, and ISVs to build tailored solutions on the salesforce.com platform.
  • Own the Salesforce Setup framework and Setup Home
  • Own the Salesforce Experience Cloud, the digital experience platform (DXP) for building branded websites and portals.
  • Own the Salesforce CMS and digital asset management technologies.
  • Champion and drive company-wide accessibility initiatives to ensure WCAG compliance and inclusive experiences
  • Lead right-to-left (RTL) language support implementation across the platform
  • Own platform-wide UI test frameworks, quality tooling (Jest, test code generation agents), and engineering productivity tools
  • Drive browser standards adoption and multi-UI language support
  • Drive measurable improvements in Lightning experience performance, including caching strategies, browser optimizations, and networking improvements
  • Partner with Customer Success on critical customer escalations
  • Drive engineering systems that are stable, fast, cost-efficient, secure, and inclusive by design
  • Work closely with product leadership across Sales, Service, Commerce, Marketing, and other clouds to power their own product roadmaps.
  • Partner with architects across the organization to align on technical strategies and platform standards
  • Collaborate with PM and UX leadership to deliver cohesive product experiences
  • Represent engineering in executive forums and customer engagements
  • Build a High-Impact, High-Trust Organization

Requirements

  • 15+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years of VP/SVP-level leadership engineering teams
  • Led organizations with 2 or more layers, managing senior directors and directors who themselves lead multiple teams
  • A proven ability to elevate engineering standards and operational maturity across large, distributed, multi-team organizations within the existing staffing of the organization.
  • Demonstrated success driving accountability without direct control, influencing senior leaders through clarity, relationships, data, and strategic alignment
  • Proven ability to manage distributed leadership teams and organizations.
  • Deep technical expertise in web technologies, UI frameworks, and large-scale platform engineering
  • Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-team engineering initiatives
  • Strong architectural judgment and ability to set technical direction across clouds
  • Experience with AI/ML technologies and agentic experiences
  • Leadership in applying AI appropriately to products and services, balancing innovation with responsible deployment
  • Track record of leveraging AI to increase developer productivity through intelligent tooling, automation, and workflow optimization
  • Ability to lead and inspire large engineering organizations
  • Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, UX, Architecture, Support, and Program Management teams
  • Track record of driving company-wide initiatives requiring influence without direct authority
  • Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex engineering concepts to C-suite leaders, non-technical stakeholders, and engineering teams alike
  • A bias for action, grounded judgment, and a focus on measurable outcomes
  • Proven ability to deliver on aggressive timelines requiring judicious tradeoffs
  • Strong operational discipline and ability to balance innovation with quality and stability
  • Experience managing technical debt while driving new capability development
  • Ability to identify emerging technology trends and position the organization for future success
  • Experience incubating new technologies and transitioning them to production scale
  • Strong business acumen and understanding of how technology drives customer value
  • Vision for how AI will transform how humans and agents interact with Salesforce apps.
Benefits
  • time off programs
  • medical, dental, vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
AI technologiesML technologiesUI frameworksLightning Web ComponentsReactAuraSalesforce Experience CloudSalesforce CMSJestweb technologies
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional partnershipexecutive communicationinfluence without authorityoperational disciplinestrategic alignmentability to inspirejudgmentfocus on measurable outcomesbusiness acumen