Executive Operations & Leadership Engagement DirectorDirector

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164K-305K Annually
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The Role
Leads executive operations within Salesforce’s Customer Success COO organization. Establishes operating rhythms, decision frameworks, executive forums, and communications standards; partners with senior leaders to improve decision-making, surface risks, and drive execution. Owns leadership messaging, speechwriting, narratives, presentations, summits, offsites, and all-hands content while directing complex strategic priorities across matrixed teams.
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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.

Job Title: Executive Operations & Leadership Engagement Director

Location: Texas - Austin, Georgia - Atlanta, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana - Indianapolis, Washington - Seattle

About Salesforce
We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

About the Role

We are seeking a Director, Executive Operations & Leadership Engagement to join the Executive Operations team within the Customer Success COO organization. Reporting directly to the Executive Operations Leader, this role serves as a strategic operational and communications partner, combining business planning and executive governance with senior storytelling and messaging strategy.
In this role, you will bridge executive planning and execution by translating open-ended executive priorities into structured operational plans, high-visibility leadership forums, clear business narratives, and priority strategic initiatives. As a key member of the Executive Operations team, you will equip leadership to lead with clarity and impact, build the operational infrastructure that powers our executive engagement framework, define operational and communications standards, and drive cross-functional alignment.

Your Impact - Responsibilities

  • Establish and govern the overarching operating rhythm, decision-making frameworks, and executive forums across the organization to drive operational discipline and accountability.
  • Partner closely with Customer Success COO leadership and key business partners to streamline decision-making, eliminate organizational friction, and drive to execution.
  • Maintain executive focus on critical business decisions by filtering operational noise, surfacing emerging risks early, and guiding partner teams to resolve lower-level issues.
  • Own the end-to-end communications strategy and messaging framework for leadership, ensuring tight alignment with broader organizational goals and company values.
  • Shape the agenda, narrative structure, messaging flow, and presentation content for major executive forums, leadership summits, offsites, and all teams meetings.
  • Direct high-stakes, ad-hoc strategic priorities on behalf of leadership, rapidly converting open-ended, complex challenges into structured execution plans across matrixed teams.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Executive Operations, Business Operations, Executive Communications, or Strategic Program Management within a global SaaS or technology environment.
  • Proven track record of setting operational frameworks, defining executive communications strategies, and managing senior stakeholder relationships across matrixed teams.
  • Deep expertise in executive speechwriting, narrative framing, and translating complex operational and business topics into clear, compelling executive presentations.
  • Exceptional capability to convert ambiguous business inputs, rapid priority shifts, and open-ended executive requests into structured operational models.
  • Strong business acumen across Customer Success operational rhythms, financial management cycles, and employee engagement models.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or MBA preferred.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Accommodations

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $164,000 - $304,700 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Executive Operations, Business Operations, Executive Communications, or Strategic Program Management within a global SaaS or technology environment
  • Experience establishing operational frameworks, defining executive communications strategies, and managing senior stakeholder relationships across matrixed teams
  • Expertise in executive speechwriting, narrative framing, and translating complex operational and business topics into clear executive presentations
  • Ability to convert ambiguous business inputs, shifting priorities, and open-ended executive requests into structured operational models
  • Strong business acumen across Customer Success operational rhythms, financial management cycles, and employee engagement models
  • Master's degree or MBA

Salesforce Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Salesforce and has not been reviewed or approved by Salesforce.

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision options, mental‑health programs, and low‑deductible or heavily subsidized tiers. Feedback suggests offerings like Lyra counseling, care navigation, and wellness reimbursements make access broad and user‑friendly.
  • Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits are portrayed as robust, including paid leave for primary and secondary caregivers and extensive family‑building support such as fertility, adoption, and doula benefits. Backup childcare and caregiver resources provide practical help across different life stages.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off programs are highlighted as generous, with flexible PTO and hybrid options alongside seven days of paid Volunteer Time Off each year. Feedback suggests this combination supports work‑life balance and community engagement.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
72,000 Employees

What We Do

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way. Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business. Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.

Why Work With Us

There’s no typical day in the life of a Salesforce employee. You could be transforming our next AI innovation — or transforming your community. Closing deals — or closing your laptop for a day of Volunteer Time Off. Driving change for our customers — or driving change within one of our high-performing teams.

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