Program/project Management Senior Lead

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Chicago, Indiana - Indianapolis, IL

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Lead Program/Project Manager to support special projects within the Account Success organization, focusing on driving growth and transformation. This role involves leading the development, planning, and execution of key initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, monitoring programs, and communicating with stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes in an AI-driven customer success environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the development, planning, and execution of key Account Success priorities, programs and initiatives.
  2. Have extensive experience in consulting on highly complex, matrixed programs
  3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project goals, scope, timeline, and deliverables.
  4. Monitor programs & metrics, identify risks, and proactively implement solutions to ensure successful outcomes.
  5. Drive effective communication across teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency.

Skills

Required

  • Strong critical thinking skills
  • Ability to analyze poorly defined areas and processes within a cross-functional team, work with leadership to align around recommendations and then implement new and improved processes.
  • Strong ability to influence executive leadership to drive direction and clarity
  • Ability to navigate difficult situations to bring resolution
  • Ability to quickly establish and build close working relationships with team members of varying backgrounds and positions within an organization.
  • Experience in implementing of cross-functional business efforts. Effective in influencing high-quality decisions, solving and/or escalating issues and meeting deadlines. Ability to juggle multiple priorities.
  • Strong presentation skills - including building effective google slide presentations for executive audiences.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including sound judgment about, when,how, what, and to whom to communicate. Inform, educate, and inspire employees.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and motivated to solve complex problems.
  • Solution-oriented, collaborative & curious mindset
  • Experience defining, managing and executing projects from start to finish. May include project management, data gathering and modeling, problem-solving, and communicating recommendations

Nice to have

  • Ability to quickly ramp on collaboration technologies (Google, Slack, CRM)
  • Salesforce.com organization and product knowledge is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • highly complex, matrixed programs
  • cross-functional teams
  • define project goals, scope, timeline, and deliverables
  • Monitor programs & metrics, identify risks, and proactively implement solutions
  • Drive effective communication across teams and stakeholders
  • Foster strong working relationships across the business
  • Develop compelling leadership presentations
  • Assist in troubleshooting operational issues
  • Conduct regular reviews and evaluations of program or workstream performance
  • Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies
  • Strong critical thinking skills
  • Ability to analyze poorly defined areas and processes
  • work with leadership to align around recommendations and then implement new and improved processes
  • Strong ability to influence executive leadership
  • Ability to navigate difficult situations to bring resolution
  • Ability to quickly establish and build close working relationships
  • Experience in implementing of cross-functional business efforts
  • Effective in influencing high-quality decisions, solving and/or escalating issues and meeting deadlines
  • Ability to juggle multiple priorities
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfort with ambiguity and motivated to solve complex problems
  • Solution-oriented, collaborative & curious mindset
  • Experience defining, managing and executing projects from start to finish