SVP, Software Engineering, Platform

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

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.

We're looking for an exceptional engineering leader to lead our AI Application Development organization, which powers hundreds of thousands of customers. This role is critical to Salesforce's platform strategy, driving foundational technologies such as Lightning Experience, Communities/Sites, rich Agentic experiences across channels (i.e. Slack, ChatGPT, etc.), low code application building tools, and core UI frameworks and runtimes.

Reporting directly to the EVP of Platform Engineering, you will serve as a key member of the platform engineering leadership team and a representative of these critical engineering functions to the broader company. This role is for a change agent—an executive who can set vision, influence product and engineering peers, operationalize excellence at scale, and deliver measurable outcomes.

This role sits at the heart of Salesforce's platform user experience and application building strategy. The technologies and experiences you'll oversee touch millions of users daily and enable thousands of developers to build on our platform. You'll have the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise AI experiences while driving fundamental improvements to our core platform capabilities.

Your work will directly impact our ability to deliver on our Agentforce vision, ensure our platform remains scalable and deeply customizable, and maintain Salesforce's position as the leading enterprise cloud platform. You'll build and lead an organization where engineers do the best work of their careers, creating technology that makes a meaningful difference for our customers and the world.

Key Responsibilities:

Agentic Experiences 

• Lead the development, delivery, and adoption of foundational cross-cutting Agentforce Experience Layer (AXL) technology

• Incubate and deliver innovative AI-driven experiences and experience building tools, pro code through low code.

• Partner with various organizations, such as Agentforce, to deliver an end-to-end Agentic experience for customers.

AI Engineering Evolution

• Apply AI thoughtfully and strategically to enhance product capabilities, user experiences, and developer productivity

• Champion the use of AI to accelerate engineering workflows, including test code generation, debugging assistance, and code quality improvements

UI Platform Engineering Leadership

• Responsible for managing the primary UI frameworks (Lightning Web Components, React, Aura) on the platform that power B2B, B2C, and B2E experiences across desktop and mobile.

• Lead the  UI product, performance, stability, and accessibility initiatives of the core Salesforce App (Lightning Experience), requiring oversight of execution as well cross-organizational influence and collaboration.  

• Own the declarative app building experiences that enable customers, partners, and ISVs to build tailored solutions on the salesforce.com platform.

• Own the Salesforce Setup framework and Setup Home

• Own the Salesforce Experience Cloud, the digital experience platform (DXP) for building branded websites and portals.

• Own the Salesforce CMS and digital asset management technologies.

• Balance new innovation delivery along with improving/evolving/transforming highly adopted in-market products and services.

Cross-Organizational Programs

• Champion and drive company-wide accessibility initiatives to ensure WCAG compliance and inclusive experiences

• Lead right-to-left (RTL) language