Salesforce · 6 hours ago
Director of Engineering - Agentforce
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$212K/yr - $307K/yr
5+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. The Director of Engineering - Agentforce will lead a cross-functional team to build and ship innovative AI applications, ensuring technical excellence and effective collaboration across teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCRMSaaSSales EnablementSoftware
Responsibilities
Build and ship innovative end-to-end AI applications
Provide oversight and leadership through code and design reviews for features delivered by other developers within their scrum team
Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer
Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve it before it happens
Daily management of standups as the ScrumMaster for engineering teams
Managing communication, alignment and execution with a global team
Partner with Product Owner to align with objectives, priorities , tradeoffs and risk
Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
Empowering the delivery team to self organize
Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members' success
Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond
Vocally advocating for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions
Participating in architecture discussions and planning
Participating in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
Maintaining and fostering our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals
Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp
Qualification
Required
Masters / Bachelors degree required in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
5+ years experience leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects
Experience shipping Machine Learning applications
Experience with Data engineering, specifically around data acquisition, creating data pipelines, metric measurement, and analysis
Experience owning highly available services and putting processes in place to maintain uptime
Experience managing large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
Prior experience working with global teams
Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
Ability to be nimble, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that's been released for public consumption
Experience in hiring, mentoring and managing engineers
Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience with Agile development methodologies. Scrum leader experience required
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
Preferred
Prior academic or work experience in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
Pragmatic orientation to building ML solutions that work in production at scale
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
CEO & Chairperson, Salesforce India and South Asia
Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO
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