Salesforce Platform Manager

Marcus & Millichap is the nation’s leading brokerage firm specializing in real estate investments with offices nationwide. Marcus & Millichap offers owners and investors the nation's most comprehensive real estate research and analysis for all types of income-producing property.   We are seeking a Salesforce Platform Manager capable of multi-team ownership at the enterprise level. Functions of those teams include platform development, platform administration, and escalated support. This role is responsible for ensuring platform reliability, rapid resolution of complex production issues, and strong governance across Salesforce development, administration, configuration, and integrations. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in high-impact enterprise environments — setting operational standards, driving accountability, and leading stability, focused improvements that protect business-critical workflows.    This role reports to the Director of Cloud Operations and Integrations and plays a critical role in delivering high value projects, protecting Salesforce platform reliability, ensuring business continuity, and driving operational excellence across one of the company’s most important enterprise systems.
The base salary range for this role is $140,000– $150,000 per year. This position is eligible for a discretionary performance‑based bonus. The exact bonus amount is not guaranteed and will vary based on individual performance, team results, and company performance. Actual pay will be determined by factors such as education, experience, and job-related skills relevant to the role. Marcus & Millichap is a multi-state employer and posted salary ranges are provided in good faith for compliance with all relevant pay-transparency regulations. These ranges may not reflect potential compensation for positions based in other states or regions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Development & Delivery
• Lead end-to-end Salesforce project development, from solution design through build, testing, and deployment.
• Define project scope, milestones, and success criteria in collaboration with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Manage the full development lifecycle across Salesforce platform products, ensuring solutions align with organizational goals and Salesforce best practices.
• Oversee configuration, customization, and development activities including flows, Apex, Lightning Web Components, and declarative tooling. Platform Stability & Tier 3 Escalations
• Serve as the final escalation point for Salesforce-related production incidents, outages, and complex business-impacting issues. 
• Lead deep root-cause investigations across: o Salesforce configuration and automation o Role/security model issues o Data integrity and platform performance Docusign Envelope ID: A28BF614-A1B6-4769-86B3-206830443004 o Integration failures and API-related disruptions
• Ensure platform uptime, stability, and operational resilience across all Salesforce functions. Incident Response & Operational Excellence
• Own Salesforce support operations including: o Incident response and escalation management o Problem management and recurring issue reduction o Change management and release stability controls
• Lead post-incident reviews, ensuring corrective actions are implemented, tracked, and completed.
• Drive improvements to monitoring, alerting, and triage workflows to reduce downtime and support load. Salesforce Governance & Best Practices
• Establish and enforce platform governance standards across: o Configuration management o Deployment controls o Environment strategy o Security and access compliance
• Ensure operational best practices for: o Release coordination o Platform documentation o Audit readiness and system controls
• Promote a culture of prevention over reaction. Docusign Envelope ID: A28BF614-A1B6-4769-86B3-206830443004 Team Leadership
• Lead and mentor Salesforce development engineers and administrators, setting clear expectations for ownership and execution.
• Coach teams on: o Technical troubleshooting discipline o Strong documentation habits o Reliable escalation and response standards
• Partner with leadership on performance development, skills growth, and platform support maturity. Cross-Functional Stakeholder Collaboration 
• Partner closely with Business and Technology stakeholders to align platform support priorities.
• Translate business-impacting issues into structured operational and technical action plans.
• Coordinate hotfixes, platform changes, and production releases to minimize disruption and risk. Continuous Improvement & Platform Hardening
• Identify systemic platform weaknesses and lead initiatives to reduce operational risk and technical debt.
• Improve