Program Management Director - Salesforce on Alibaba

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Technical Program Manager - Salesforce on Alibaba

At Salesforce, Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical role in leading complex, cross-functional initiatives at scale. As the Director of Technical Program Management for Salesforce Security, you will lead a high-impact portfolio focused on host and environment sensors, as well as critical control points. This is a senior-level individual contributor role where you'll work closely with executive leadership to turn strategic vision into actionable programs, driving cross-functional alignment and execution.

Experience with large-scale Security initiatives and infrastructure migrations—especially those involving endpoint agents, asset inventory, and tools such as CrowdStrike, Nessus, Tanium, and Prisma—is highly valued.

We're looking for a proven TPM, a passionate security expert, a proactive problem solver, and a change agent who thrives on tackling complex challenges. Your expertise in enterprise systems, public cloud services, such as networking, compute, and storage will be essential in delivering tangible business value. If you have a proven track record of leading large, complex programs and are eager to shape the future of Salesforce's infrastructure, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a security engineering portfolio encompassing host and environment sensors, control points, and infrastructure guardrails—leveraging tools such as CrowdStrike, Nessus, Tanium, and Prisma, along with comprehensive asset inventory management.

• Strategically align stakeholders on portfolio vision, business goals, and strategy, defining program scope and securing cross-functional commitment.

• Cultivate and leverage executive partnerships to drive strategic program objectives and optimize delivery for measurable success.

• Conduct decisive program reviews to facilitate key decisions, eliminate roadblocks, and resolve issues, ensuring on-time goal attainment.

• Transform business objectives into actionable execution strategies, lead execution through collaborative and agile leadership.

• Partner with engineering and product teams to architect and implement technical solutions, accelerating customer value delivery.

• Establish a dynamic agile environment fostering autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Orchestrate and resolve complex program dependencies across diverse partners, functions, and divisions.

• Proactively identify and mitigate program risks, ensuring timely achievement of business objectives.

• Deliver transparent program status reporting, providing actionable insights on decisions, dependencies, risks, and metrics.

• Foster a culture of innovation and learning, empowering teams to generate creative solutions.

• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional development, actively seeking and incorporating constructive feedback.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience in technical leadership. Advanced management degrees preferred.

• 10+ years of recent experience leading large-scale, complex infrastructure programs with proven impactful business outcomes.

• Establish and maintain strong credibility and rapport with senior executives, technical experts, and cross-functional team members.

• Demonstrate exceptional executive communication and presentation skills.

• Exhibit strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a history of detailed, hands-on technical work.

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of technical subjects relevant to the program.

• Deeply understand the software development lifecycle and apply agile methodologies effectively in dynamic environments.

• Utilize professional, repeatable methodologies for program initiation, work breakdown, scheduling, reporting, risk, and change management.

• Excel in organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills within a cross-functional, matrix management environment.

• Effectively collaborate across company functions and time zones, showcasing strong time management, analytical, and planning skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Significant experience with Security scanning and infrastructure services like CrowdStrike, Nessus, Tanium, and Prisma, Public Clouds and infrastructure migrations.

• Experience driving large scale security and compliance initiatives,

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

• Agile Certification.

• Ability to quickly grasp and understand diverse technical subjects and technologies related to program execution.

• Demonstrated passion for solving complex, ambiguous problems and delivering high-quality, innovative, and robust technical solutions.

• Experience developing comprehensive reports and dashboards for program visibility.

• Experience analyzing large datasets to identify long-term trends and drive strategic improvements.

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $202,700 to $293,900.