Director/Sr. Director, AI Product & Program Management - Private Equity Practice

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Program & Project Management

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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

ABOUT SALESFORCE

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with CRM + AI + Data + Trust. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good — you’ve come to the right place.

Our Global Private Equity & VC Practice is transforming the way private equity firms create value for investors and their portfolio companies and transforming/scaling how Salesforce accelerates its growth by specializing in this broad horizontal sector across all our industries. 

We are entrepreneurial and strive to make a significant positive impact accelerating the Value Creation of their portfolio companies.   We provide a unique form of strategic relationship capabilities to speed growth, and reduce risk. Blending analysis, vision, product based thought leadership, with a focus on AI and Data, business case development. This approach enables senior Private Equity executives and their Portfolio Company Executives to rethink how quickly, easily and cost-efficiently they can achieve their strategic objectives and deliver next-generation, value creation-enhancing customer experiences across sales, service, marketing and commerce using the Salesforce platform!

The Role

We’re seeking an outstanding combination Product & Program Management Director to drive the future of the AI and Data  activation program for the Global Private Equity & VC Practice, specifically focused on delivering the power of the Salesforce  platform to Private Equity owned portfolio companies. The ideal candidate is an experienced program and product leader, with deep experience in AI;  understanding business objectives and turning them into actionable programs . They are entrepreneurial, creative and passionate about making customers and their teams successful. This high-profile role is ready for a candidate who wants to take their career to the next level.

We're seeking a strong presenter and facilitator who is able to co-create the vision and lead PE product specialist teams and internal customer or SI teams on the execution with the customer (portfolio company CxOs and private equity operating partners) as well as acquire customer acceptance of the delivered solution . You are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to implement the business strategies. You are proficient at analyzing issues and obstacles to settle root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. You communicate with technical and business team members from all levels through C-suite. You show a strong understanding of typical business challenges and common objectives faced by private-equity backed middle-market businesses across industries.

We’re looking for a self-starter with the ability to work through ambiguity and thrive in fast-paced and multifaceted environments and is able to deliver within defined timeframes. An ideal candidate will have high Emotional Intelligence (EQ) specifically being a great active listener and communicator, who can convey complex ideas in a clear, concise manner to senior-level executives at portfolio companies and private equity firms. As a people leader, you will also enable and empower a team of high-performing TAs, SEs, PMs and Admins; you will be a catalyst within the organization, keeping active relationships across our Product teams, someone who can drive our Commercial Excellence best practices across Sales, Service, Marketing and Commerce translating those standard processes into action and strategic plans for customer actions and advance our Agentforce for Private Equity strategy globally, and drive others in the organi