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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.
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.
The Senior Technical Consultant supports a work stream in sophisticated enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key collaborators to achieve the vision while completing key deliverables. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong solution and technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer return on investment.
Senior Technical Consultants demonstrate thought leadership in technical aspects of customer and partner engagements that lead to the successful delivery of enterprise desktop, cloud, and/or mobile solutions, including enterprise integrations leveraging middleware tools and platforms. Senior Technical Consultants deliver technical solutions to meet the customer’s business and technical requirements. They lead the evaluation of options and subsequent presentation and education of the customer/partner. They will also identify and proactively manage risk areas, and commit to seeing issues through to complete resolution.
YOUR IMPACT: Responsibilities
* Become a highly certified and recognized Salesforce expert
* Help clients consistently meet/exceed goals and metrics
* Contribute to customer success through front and backend solution development and release management
* Deliver high client satisfaction (CSAT)
* Provide guidance on the application and integration development best practices, Enterprise Architecture standards, functional and technical solution architecture & design, environment management, testing, and Salesforce Platform education.
* Drive the creation of application and technical design documents which leverage Salesforce best practices and effectively integrate Salesforce into the customer’s infrastructure.
* Troubleshoot key customer implementation issues and demonstrate the ability to drive to a successful resolution. Lead the evaluation of business and technical requirements from a senior level.
* Identification and proactive management of risk areas and commitment to seeing an issue through to complete resolution.
* Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners.
* Build relationships with business partners, internal and external, and contributing to broader goals and growth beyond the scope of a single customer engagement.
* Contribute to the growth of the Services Practice by identifying and leading internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice, leveraging junior teammates to achieve individual as well as team growth; serving as an active contributor to the practice knowledge and resource base; mentor, educate, and enrich technical and non-technical Salesforce customer and partner colleagues.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Secret Clearance: Requires providing 10 years of verifiable work and residence history, generally from within Canada* 3+ years of enterprise consulting experience, including implementation experience with one or more common enterprise software solutions (e.g. CRM, ERP), filling positions of increasing responsibility and management of more junior technical resources.
- 3+ years experience as an Architect or Senior Developer in a mid to large-sized organization with demonstrated leadership driving an organizational transformation in a matrixed organization.
- 2+ years experience as an Architect or Senior Developer in a mid to large-sized organization with demonstrated leadership driving an organizational transformation in a matrixed organization.
- Experience with key areas of enterprise architecture, including integration technologies, single sign-on, and master data management.
- Experience with Waterfall and/or Agile implementation methodologies.
- Ability to work independently and be a self-starter. Proven results leading and overseeing customer and/or partner success stories in the following domains: front- and back-end solution architecture, development and release management strategies, change management, and direct leadership in designing solutions that meet or exceed customer needs.
- Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration.
- Guiding customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value.
- Polished speaker with the ability to evangelize best practices at various levels within a large organization.
- A particular desire to continually study new technologies and functionality, as well as be involved in projects that push the capabilities of existing technologies.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience.
- Strong presentation skills. Able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences.
- Travel to client site (average of 25%), but maybe higher or lower based on the client engagement.
- Cachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, or in a related field.
- Highly beneficial to have any Salesforce.com product certifications prior to joining. It is expected that you will gain the following certifications as part of the role requirement and on-boarding process in the first 3 months:
- Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator
- Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer
- Salesforce Certified Agentforce Sales Consultant
- Salesforce Certified
- Service Consultant
- Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist
- Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Leadership Qualities
* PASSION: Passionate about Customer Success
* BEGINNERS MIND: Always learning, approaches each interaction with an open mind, a great listener, and hands-on
* THOUGHT LEADER: Strong point of view and executive presence. Confident, but not arrogant, a great storyteller
* URGENCY: Ability to move fast and drive business value and results
* OHANA: Embodies Aloha culture: A team player that everyone enjoys working with and has a generous heart
* TRUST: Trust the company’s core values
* ADAPTABLE: Excels in high levels of uncertainty and change
Security Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Canadian Government Security Clearance. Candidates are not required to hold an active clearance at the time of application or interview; however, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain clearance as a condition of employment.
Reliability Clearance: Requires providing 5 years of verifiable work and residence history, generally from within Canada
Secret Clearance: Requires providing 10 years of verifiable work and residence history, generally from within Canada
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.
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.
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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 $117,200 - $176,700 annually There is a different range applicable to specific work locations. In California and New York, and select cities in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC, the base pay range for this role in those locations is $141,200 - $194,200 per year. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.Skills Required
- Ability to obtain and maintain Canadian Government Secret Clearance (10 years verifiable work/residence history)
- Must be a U.S. citizen with no dual citizenship and agree to complete a U.S. federal Minimum Background Investigation (Moderate Public Trust)
- 3+ years enterprise consulting experience including implementation of CRM/ERP and managing junior technical resources
- 3+ years as an Architect or Senior Developer with leadership driving organizational transformation
- Experience with enterprise architecture: integration technologies, single sign-on, and master data management
- Experience with Waterfall and/or Agile implementation methodologies
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, or related field
- Travel to client sites (average ~25%)
- Ability to obtain specified Salesforce certifications within first 3 months (Platform Admin, App Builder, Platform Developer, Agentforce Sales Consultant, Service Consultant, Agentforce Specialist, JavaScript Developer)
- Prior Salesforce product certifications (beneficial before joining)
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to evangelize best practices
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.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as above-market in the U.S., with multiple peer-reported benchmarks converging around a similar median total compensation figure. Compensation is also framed as broadly viewed as fair in aggregate, even while acknowledging variation by role and group.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as notably generous for U.S. caregivers, with additional supports like gradual return-to-work and doula reimbursement. Family-building programs are also emphasized through fertility/adoption/surrogacy support with sizeable reimbursement limits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental-health and coaching offerings are highlighted as accessible supports alongside financial-wellbeing tools. Volunteer Time Off and donation matching are presented as distinctive lifestyle-aligned benefits that add value beyond cash compensation.
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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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