VP, Comms & Media Sector Leader

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Role Overview:

The Salesforce Professional Services business is growing, and our work is at the center of all things AgentForce. In order to evolve and meet our customers’ increased needs and expectations, we are creating new ways of working rooted in deep industry expertise and relevance. As VP, Comms & Media Services Sector Lead you will be leading the teams who design, develop, and deliver our portfolio of Professional Services offerings across the Comms & Media sector. You will ensure we bring our Services expertise to market in a coordinated way across the segment in order to improve customer satisfaction, increase product usage and adoption, and directly impact Salesforce.com’s top and bottom line.

At a high level, this includes developing a deep understanding not only of the cloud and agentic technology landscape, but also of unique industry-specific challenges, regulations, and opportunities in Comms & Media.. You will craft both long and short-term strategies that unearth opportunities to create and capture customer value and develop a consistent industry strategy to help scale our business. At the more tactical level, this role is designed to lead and manage the Comms & Media sector in its entirety, driving utilization, bookings, and revenue across all Customer Account Tiers. You will work cross-functionally with our license sales teams to ensure GTM motions are integrated to drive end-to-end success for our customers. This role will also partner on the development of new industry-specific Services products and programs, based on insightful customer engagement and understanding, including launching pilots that will allow us to co-create new offerings with our customers to confirm market fit based on emerging trends.

You will interact regularly with our distribution organization, specifically your Sector counterparts, as well as other teams within the company to provide a holistic and complete view of business goals related to the set of service products you need, the technology capabilities this requires, and the content needed to support these offerings across the industry.

Leadership Qualities:

• Strategic Thinker: Ability to translate details into bigger picture implications driving the business forward, challenging the status quo. Understands industry, market, and organizational dynamics with the intellectual horse-power to handle growing complexity and ambiguity. Aligns the right resources to the task at hand; foresees and plans around obstacles.

• Talent Management: Has a passion for building and retaining great teams - proven ability to develop others who have significantly contributed to company success with a history of making good hiring decisions and developing a strong bench of successors. Champions talent beyond their own organization

• Innovate for Growth: Always thinking about how to make improvements; able to implement changes that map to business strategy. Stays abreast of cutting-edge technology trends.

• Focus on Customer Success: Builds and maintains relationships with customers; shapes solutions that have a significant positive impact on their business.

• Builds Trust and Credibility: Makes decisions based on the organization’s values - actions are consistent with the company’s core values. Ability to set a clear vision - role models a growth mindset and shares mistakes widely for others to benefit and embraces a learning mentality.

• Lead & Adapt to Change: Thrives in a changing, dynamic environment - Relishes leading even when times are tough and models the attributes of a GREAT leader.

• Courageous Communicator: Must be able to take an unpopular stand if necessary for the betterment of our business. Must encourage a transparen