Product Strategy Lead

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Bangalore, India

Salesforce is seeking a Product Strategy Lead to develop product and market strategies for their AI CRM offerings. The role involves analyzing market trends, identifying growth opportunities, informing roadmap investments, and creating business cases for new product initiatives. The candidate will work with product leadership and GMs to influence strategy and ensure alignment with customer needs and market shifts, leveraging AI, data, and automation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyzing key market and technology trends through deep research to determine their impact on relevant product segments and verticals.
  2. Identifying whitespace opportunities to grow the addressable market by leveraging the strategic moat around AI, data, and automation.
  3. Conducting ecosystem and market analyses to inform roadmap investments, collaborating with product leaders to define best-in-class products as part of an ongoing innovation cadence.
  4. Supporting and informing inorganic growth opportunities via "build-versus-buy" assessments based on rigorous product due diligence.
  5. Creating best-in-class product collateral that outlines the latest innovations, key product differentiators, and associated business value.

Skills

Required

  • 4-8 years of relevant work experience in business consulting/advisory profile or an internal strategy role with a reputed firm
  • Good understanding of the business technology and CRM space
  • Strong business research and analytical skills
  • Financial analysis and modeling capabilities
  • Strong Storyboarding / Powerpoint skills
  • Excellent organizational, written, communication, and presentation skills to present to cross-functional and senior leadership teams
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
  • Adaptability to change in fast-paced and high-pressure environments
  • Strong business and technology acumen
  • Experience working with leadership and matrixed teams
  • Excellent communicator in written and verbal form
  • Proficiency in Google Suite applications, including Google Slides, Google Sheets, and documents
  • Strong ability to translate data and trends into strategies and messaging to drive decisions
  • Solid understanding of financial statements & terms, their implications, and comparative financial analysis
  • Team player with strong interpersonal skills

What the JD emphasized

  • AI CRM
  • Agentic era
  • frontier-class AI models
  • Agentic enterprise software