Director, Salesforce Program Leader

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Hyderabad, India, India

Salesforce is seeking a Director, Program Leader to manage customer engagements and drive business value from the Salesforce AI CRM platform. This role focuses on maximizing platform adoption, demonstrating ROI, and mitigating risk by acting as a strategic advisor to executive stakeholders and overseeing program governance and delivery.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assume ultimate accountability for Establishing, executing and overseeing program governance to deliver strategic value-realization and recovery plans for strategic customer accounts.
  2. Engage directly with C-level stakeholders to build trust, define success metrics, and demonstrate measurable platform ROI. You will lead all executive stakeholder forums, like Steering Committees.
  3. Serve as the primary, billable expert providing strategic oversight to ensure program delivery aligns with the customer's core business objectives.
  4. Proactively identify, assess, and manage program risks, dependencies, and scope changes. You will own the executive-level escalation process and translate complex technical issues into clear business implications.
  5. Lead, support pre-sales teams in initial scoping, change management, and identifying opportunities for expansion of running program.

Skills

Required

  • 15-17+ years of experience in consulting or strategic advisory roles
  • Experience managing large-scale, complex SaaS/CRM program implementations
  • Deep expertise in the Salesforce platform and ecosystem
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills
  • Proven ability to build C-level relationships
  • Proven experience in strategic account recovery
  • Experience working in a multi-cultural environment
  • Experience leading program pre-sales & delivery teams
  • Mastery of program management methodologies (Agile, Hybrid)
  • Project management certification (PMI - ACP / PMP / PgMP / Prince 2)

Nice to have

  • Salesforce Certification

What the JD emphasized

  • 15-17+ years of experience, predominantly in consulting or strategic advisory roles, managing large-scale, complex SaaS/CRM program implementations.
  • Deep expertise in the Salesforce platform and ecosystem, including common implementation patterns, integration challenges, custom development, and data migration strategies.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to build C-level relationships, navigate difficult conversations, and negotiate high-stakes outcomes.
  • Proven experience in strategic account recovery, risk mitigation, and driving platform adoption in complex, at-risk customer environments.
  • Must have prior experience working in a multi-cultural environment with teams and stakeholders geographically spread
  • Prior experience leading the program pre-sales & delivery team by fostering continuous learning and ensuring members are well-trained, while supporting and driving career growth, personal and team development, well-being, diversity, and inclusion.
  • Demonstrated mastery of program management methodologies (Agile, Hybrid) and the ability to apply them to complex enterprise environments.
  • A self-starting, individual contributor mindset with the ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and influence across matrixed organizations.
  • Ability to lead a team of consultants in a matrix environment towards a common goal while navigating customer & internal organisational landscape
  • Must have at least either of these Project management certification _(_ PMI -ACP / PMP / PgMP / Prince 2) and having Salesforce Certification is an asset.