Senior Director, Sales Programs

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Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword – it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. The Sr. Director, Sales Programs role could be the right fit for you at Salesforce! We are currently looking for high-energy, driven, top talent with a deep knowledge of effective tactics and strategies to grow pipeline and revenue.

The ideal candidate has an analytical mind with the ability to act as a trusted adviser and business partner to senior executive leadership, while working cross-functionally. This individual also must be comfortable analyzing complex data sets, adept at prescribing and prioritizing solutions to meet business problems, and is comfortable presenting to large audiences. This role combines the creative process of designing prescriptive programs and strategies, with the "business end" of operationalizing these programs with field teams to ensure they are executed and produce results.

Most importantly, the ideal candidate can inspire and lead a team of Sales Programs managers to ideate, design, and execute these impactful programs needed for the business to succeed.

You will lead a team of Sales Program Managers. You will be collaborating with Sales Leaders, Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing, Data Science Teams, Sales Operations, and Sales Enablement to design and execute sales programs that drive results and impact. This role and your directs will support our exciting and rapidly growing Financial Services and Specialists Business (inclusive of products such as Slack, Revenue Cloud, Service, Tableau, Marketing Cloud & Platform).

In addition to leading a team of Sales Program Managers you will own strategic initiatives end to end that support the broader organization. The following skills will help ensure your success in the role:

• Builds trusted partnerships and works cross-functionally to share information and resources, problem-solving, and produce better outcomes
• Work with sales stakeholders to align on high-level business priorities for the quarter and year
• Build and deliver presentations to management and senior sales executives

• Analyze sales performance and health of the business to create programs addressing pipeline and productivity gaps and standardize processes
• Leverage reports and data to gain quantitative insights into a business challenge

• Synthesize data and create programs to address gaps in the business, bringing in cross-functional teams as needed
• Develops creative net new approaches or processes to solve new or emerging problems
• Empowers your team to delivers compelling & impactful programs to large & diverse audiences of sellers; comfortable presenting to large groups

• Structured project management skills with the ability to engage in the right actions and cross-functional teams to drive successful goal attainment and consistently produce strong results despite day-to-day challenges
• Operationalize the program from start to finish, which includes managing the execution across multiple cross-functional teams, delivery, follow-up, and managing-up engagement metrics post-program launch
• Change management based on program performance and Key Performance Indicators

• Demonstrates ability to inspire and motivate a team to align on what needs to be done and to do their best work
• Asks questions and seeks out input from others to develop the best solutions and ideas
• Fosters a culture of interdependence, encouragement, teamwork, collaboration, and communication

• 15+ years of experience in Sales, Sales Leadership, Sales Strategy, Sales Programs, or Sales Operations.
• 5+ years of people leader experience
• Experience designing (or…