Director - Salesforce Product Engineering (14-22 yrs)

Director - Salesforce Product Engineering

Location : Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Work Experience : Total 14-22 yrs out of which 8+ yrs experience In Salesforce development & managing a 40+ members team managing Salesforce development, Salesforce architecture Leadership skills/ Delivery/Account/Client handling (including US & EU Clients)

Education/qualification : Btech/Mtech/MBA/MCA

Full Time, Hybrid

Notice period : less than 45 days

NO NO : Not looking for those who are just Testing OR Infra program managers

Leadership role in Salesforce Product Engineering

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

- Lead a team of senior architects, technical leads and software engineers driving our products and solutions on Salesforce.

- Create and refine technology strategies and execution plans for the Salesforce Product Engineering team.

- Setup and own technical standards on Engineering and Software Development and continuously refine them with the evolution of technology and business needs.

- Work closely with the product and services teams to increase the velocity of software development.

- Lead programs on advanced technologies like AI/ML, that create competitive edge and commercial results for us.

- Execute on our product roadmap and technology strategy, leading proof of concept, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), commercial releases, and beta iterations for early stages of products.

- Lead all activities to maintain the competitive edge of our products and solutions, including L3/L4 support on commercial releases.

- Lead all Quality Assurance activities on releases, and ensure that releases meet stringent quality needs of the markets and internal benchmarks.

- Lead all software automation initiatives from technology and engineering perspectives, driving unit cost reductions, including CI/CD, QA automation, process optimizations, etc.

- Maintain strong Executive Relationships within and outside the organization.

- Provide Leadership and Coaching to the technical community in the organization.

Key Qualifications and Experience :

- 15+ years' hands-on experience in the enterprise software product development space with hands-on expertise and experience in designing and building SaaS products with direct technical/engineering contribution to the same.

- 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in building products or delivering solutions on the Salesforce platform.

- Experience in the ISV/OEM space of the Salesforce ecosystem will be a definite plus. 8+ years in managing geographically dispersed engineering teams.

- Experience in AI/ML as a technology, and implementation of AI/ML as a core differentiator in software products and solutions.

- Experience in CI/CD and QA Automation.

- Demonstrated skills in the software development and maintenance lifecycle, stakeholder relationship management, a strong sense of urgency in delivering results, business knowledge, intuition, and judgment.

- Experience managing global teams across cultures and time zones and working with peers/stakeholders globally will be preferred.

- High cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity and strong communication/collaboration is necessary in this role.

- Acumen to manage cost-effective delivery with trade-offs and to manage project and operations budgets.

- Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration at all levels