Senior Director – Portfolio Product Strategy, AI Alignment

Responsibilities

• Serve as a portfolio-level orchestrator—ensuring that AI innovations and core platform services built across various operating units weave together into a coherent, world-class enterprise system.
• Help the SVP translate high-level strategy into execution-ready alignment across multiple product lines.
• Actively look across product teams to identify gaps and friction points in AI functionality, identity, security, data architecture, and platform APIs.
• Lead product reviews and governance processes to surface and resolve ecosystem conflicts before they impact customers.
• Build and maintain a living map of portfolio capabilities, overlaps, gaps, and interdependencies to ensure Salesforce moves as a unified AI platform.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to product GMs and business unit product leaders on the portfolio-level implications of local roadmap decisions.
• Apply program management rigor to keep matrixed alignment work streams and stakeholder commitments on track.
• Partner with leadership to prepare portfolio coherence and AI strategy materials for executive and board-level planning conversations.
• Conduct structured capability gap assessments against market shifts and competitive AI benchmarks.
• Identify and prioritize acquisition or partnership targets that can accelerate horizontal AI and platform capabilities.
• Lead the product-side due diligence on inbound and outbound M&A targets, ensuring seamless integration potential.

• 10–15 years of total professional experience in product management, product strategy, or a closely related horizontal leadership function.
• A proven track record that blends startup agility with large enterprise scale.
• Proven experience driving product alignment and strategy across multiple teams and products within an enterprise organization.
• Thrived in a fast-growing, rapidly evolving technology company where change is the only constant.
• Deep familiarity with massive platform ecosystems (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, Service Now).
• Strong technical fluency in AI/ML workflows, identity, and security product domains.
• Exceptional ability to build trust, bridge silos, and win hearts and minds across matrixed organizations.
• Experience helping to build "0-to-1" teams, processes, or frameworks where the playbook hasn't been written yet.