VP Product, GM - Slack Platform

Description

Location:

San Francisco preferred
Slack is looking for a
General Manager, Slack Platform
to own and grow the Slack 3P ecosystem and evolve it into revenue-generating business. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of how developers, partners, and businesses build on Slack — and to turn that ecosystem into a meaningful growth engine for the company.
This role sits at the intersection of product, partnerships, go-to-market, and strategy. You'll define what it means for Slack to be a true platform business, not just an API surface, and you'll lead the teams and initiatives that make it real.

Platform Strategy & Business Model

• Define and own the long-term strategy for the Slack Platform, evolving it into a revenue-generating business unit
• Develop and evolve monetization models for the 3P ecosystem — including revenue sharing, premium listings, platform tiers, and certification programs
• Set the vision for what the Slack app marketplace and developer ecosystem looks like in the next 3 years
• Partner with Salesforce ecosystem teams to create cross-platform leverage and joint go-to-market opportunities

• Build and manage strategic relationships with the people and companies building on Slack
• Develop and nourish partner advisors to help guide the platform and product strategy
• Define and operate partner programs, including joint GTM, affiliates, and revenue sharing opportunities
• Lead commercial negotiations for anchor partnerships and co-sell arrangements

• Own the developer funnel — from awareness and acquisition through activation and retention
• Lead the Platform product team to ensure developer tools, APIs, and docs support commercial ecosystem growth
• Define and track ecosystem health metrics: active apps, 3P DAU/MAU, partner-attributed revenue, marketplace GMV
• Ensure that every companies AI strategy works because it works in Slack - growing 1P useful apps.

• Build the GTM motion for platform — how Slack sells alongside its ecosystem, how partners co-sell, and how customers discover 3P apps
• Develop the Slack app marketplace strategy: curation, featuring, discovery, and conversion
• Work with Sales and Customer Success to drive platform adoption within Slack's largest accounts
• Represent Slack Platform externally at developer conferences, partner summits, and customer events

• Build and lead a cross-functional team spanning business development, partner success, developer relations, and platform operations
• Define and own the P&L or contribution metrics for the Platform business
• Operate with the rigor of a business unit leader: goals, budgets, headcount planning, and quarterly business reviews

The GM, Slack Platform Holds Product Leadership Accountability For The Following Areas, Working In Close Partnership With The Platform Engineering And Design Teams

• Platform APIs & Developer Tooling — Strategic direction for Slack's APIs (Web API, Events API, Bolt SDKs, Workflows API); ensuring the developer surface supports commercial and ecosystem growth goals
• Slack Automations & Workflow Builder — Partner-extensible automation capabilities; defining how ISVs and 3P developers can build on and extend Slack's automation layer
• App and Agent Framework — How 3P apps and AI agents are built, distributed, and monetized on Slack; defining the next generation of the app model including Agentforce integrations and AI-native extensions
• In-Slack App & Agent Experience — The end-user experience of apps and agents within Slack: how they surface in conversations, how users discover and invoke them, the interaction patterns and UI surfaces available to 3P builders (e.g., App Home, message actions, modals, canvas integrations), and how AI agents are presented and trusted by end users. This GM owns the quality bar and design philosophy for how third-party experiences feel inside Slack.
• Developer Platform Experience — docs.slack.dev, sandbox environments, developer onboarding, and the full lifecycle from first API call to published app
• Slack App Marketplace — Overall health, discoverability, curation, and conversion of…