Senior Director, Technical Program Management: Big Data & Observability

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Program & Project Management

Job Details

About Salesforce

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Team Overview
Managers of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical role at Salesforce in leading large-scale, cross-functional TPM Teams for initiatives within our Technology & Products organizations. TPM Manager’s lead teams, act as player coaches in also leading programs, 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.

Role Overview

The Senior Director of Technical Program Management will lead a team of TPMs in support of engineering teams within our Big Data and Observability portfolio, drive multi-year large-scale programs to deliver the best internal monitoring and big data platform in the industry. Big Data enables Salesforce teams to move, store, and process large scale data to power CRM and observability use cases by offering multi tenant, trusted, managed services. The “Observability” charter represents the critical path to enable service owners to improve mean time to detect, remediate and resolve issues, thereby providing a great opportunity to make an impact in improving customer satisfaction for the company.

You will lead, contribute and co-ordinate with cross functional, domain areas like Engineering and Product, and the Executive Leader Team to drive planning and execution of programs. This is a fast paced, dynamic environment that involves working with multiple products and tech stacks leveraging the latest big data, monitoring, and observability industry standards. As change is constant at Salesforce, you must be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and rally a team behind a vision, even if things are not super clear to begin with! This is a people management role.


About You

• Love to wear multiple hats.
• Builds the relationships to make things happen.
• Keen reader of people, culture, and tea leaves.
• Highly functional in a dynamic, energizing environment.
• Comfortable switching between the tactical and strategic.
• A service-oriented person who "Thinks Customer."
• Outstanding executive presence and communications superstar.
• Seasoned leader of teams who parters well with executive stakeholders.
• Player coach - leads team, but also does own work as needed on independent programs.

Your Impact

• Lead teams to catalyze business outcomes with our engineering partners. Mastered the ability to communicate to teams, set goals, give feedback, motivate and inspire, manage escalations, work through employee support processes, and grow team members to their full potential.
• Lead programs by achieving alignment on program scope, release planning, as well as aligning one or more teams on vision, business goals, creating program structure, and securing cross-functional alignment.
• Drive teams through the Software engineering experience through multi release plans using Agile and demonstrated analytical and technical skills.
• Drive Steering Committee meetings with key stakeholders for each program to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues. Be the key driver to ensure business goals are met and drive the strategic vision of each program.
• Develop strong partnerships with key functional stakeholders to drive focus on business goals. Be a trusted partner for executive management to ensure program success.
• Partner with cross-functional teammates to drive workgroup alignment meetings to address tactical release issues, dependencies, team status, production issues, metrics review, milestones, et