Program Management - Senior Lead

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Program & Project Management

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Trust is the #1 company value at Salesforce. It’s not just words or a slogan: it’s part of the beating heart of the company that everyone contributes to every day. We define trust as security, availability, and performance. Delivering new capabilities is one thing, but we must do so while protecting and earning our customer’s trust.

Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical role at Salesforce in leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives within our Technology & Products organizations. TPMs oversee programs through from beginning to end, partnering with their engineering leads to set the framing for successful programs, and ensuring a better workflow and more effective communication. They work closely with executives and key company stakeholders to drive critical programs and activities across the company.

Technical Program Managers will drive a multi-year effort to lead large-scale program(s) to evolve the Hyperforce architecture to meet scalability, availability, and trust requirements, We are seeking an individual that is passionate about security and compliance, a creative problem solver and a change agent who seeks out roadblocks or tough organizational issues, views them as an opportunity and drives resolution.Responsibilities:

• Take ownership and accountability of technical program planning and delivery for programs in Identity and Access, Data Security, Network Security, Technical Resilience, Cloud Security and other Security Domains, using demonstrated strong analytical and technical skills.
• Develop trusted relationships with key technology and functional stakeholders to drive focus on the strategic program objectives and optimize delivery. This includes supporting and holding resources accountable for their responsibilities within the program.
• Partner with risk management and internal audit teams to deliver tools that meet compliance requirements. Drive requirements, planning and implementation that builds compliance into our processes and tools from the start.
• Utilize agile methodologies and product development lifecycle to successfully partner with product and engineering organizations. Collaborate with senior managers and engineers to architect and develop the best technical and operational design and approach, delivering value quickly to customers.
• Initiate programs and create alignment on program planning. Bring teams together to define the business objectives, program structures, and cross-functional support necessary to succeed.
• Translate business objectives into execution strategy (tactical and strategic), lead and successfully execute the strategy through strong collaboration and agile leadership.
• Lead regular review meetings with key stakeholders. Provide transparent updates, help drive key decisions, pro-actively remove obstacles, manage dependencies across teams, identify risks and address key program issues.
• Provide regular visibility to program status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics, etc.) through status reporting to all stakeholders. Ensure data is collected to appropriately inform decision-making for mitigating risks and resolving issues.
• Utilize internal tools and agile mindset to create a collaborative environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation, and learning; promotes continuous improvement.
• Drive for clarity to keep teams moving forward, ensure business objectives are met and each program delivers on its commitments.
• Be a thought leader within the organization, someone who can help advance our security strategy globally and challenge others to move beyond the current state.
• Pursue continuous growth through professional development and proactively seeking and adopting constructive feedback.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent)
• 6+ years of experience working in the field of computer security and risk management or 8+ years of enterprise s