Senior Director, Futures

Overview

Salesforce Futures, part of Corporate Strategy, anticipates and shapes the future through foresight. We are looking for a Senior Director to lead end‑to‑end futures work, driving strategic conversations with Salesforce leaders and customers.

• Help define the agenda for Salesforce Futures, setting strategic questions, horizons, and impact metrics.
• Partner across the organization to embed foresight into strategic decision‑making.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior Salesforce leaders and customer executives.
• Build operational rigor for scoping, producing, distributing, and assessing futures work.
• Cultivate and contribute to a network of thinkers inside and outside Salesforce.
• Lead end‑to‑end projects that develop original scenarios on strategic questions for Salesforce and customers.
• Create proprietary research methodologies synthesizing signals from academia, industry, and primary sources.
• Deliver work directly to executive audiences via keynotes, workshops, customer engagements, and analyst events.
• Contribute to published expressions of the team’s thinking through articles, reports, and presentations.
• Enable others across Salesforce to communicate futures where the team can’t engage directly.
• Build prototypes, simulations, interactive artifacts, and software to help executives experience future scenarios.
• Use AI tools fluently in practice, applying them to daily work and evolving tools.
• Treat the future of futures as a dynamic question, evolving scenario planning and narrative tools for an intelligent world.

• 12+ years in scenarios, foresight, corporate strategy, or adjacent fields with deep fluency in corporate strategy models.
• Track record working closely with C‑suite executives or leading organizations directly.
• Cross‑industry pattern recognition across at least four industries and three global regions.
• A builder – produce decks, prototypes, software, simulations, and written artifacts without outsourcing.
• Daily fluent use of AI tools with a developed sense of when they help or don’t.Extensive experience delivering executive communications, with confidence in keynotes and workshops.
• Curious, analytical, and well‑read, offering original insight rather than synthesis.
• Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent practical experience; familiarity with Salesforce brand and ecosystem a plus.