Senior Manager Software Engineering, Det Public Sector

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Indianapolis, IN +2

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the vision, development, and success of their externally facing Customer Success portal for the Public Sector. This role involves owning the product roadmap, leading a cross-functional team, and advocating for exceptional self-service support experiences. The manager will focus on people leadership, strategic vision, hands-on execution, and driving results across engineering, design, and product management teams. Key responsibilities include defining portal strategy, mentoring engineers, ensuring FedRAMP compliance, owning KPIs like case deflection and CSAT, overseeing architecture, and managing budgets.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the support portal strategy and roadmap in alignment with business and customer success goals
  2. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of portal engineers
  3. Partner closely with Product, Customer Support, Success, and Security to deliver a seamless FedRAMP compliant customer success experience
  4. Own portal KPIs — case deflection rates, time-to-resolution, self-service adoption, customer satisfaction (CSAT/NPS), and uptime
  5. Oversee portal architecture decisions, platform upgrades, and integrations with ticketing and CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce Service Cloud)

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in digital support, customer experience, or support portal product management
  • 4+ years of people management experience leading technical and/or cross-functional teams
  • Deep understanding of customer support portal platforms (e.g., Salesforce Experience Cloud, Service Cloud, Zendesk)
  • Strong grasp of case management, knowledge base management, and self-service support strategies
  • Experience owning product roadmaps and working in Agile/Scrum environments
  • Proven track record of automating and improving support metrics solutions — case deflection, CSAT, first contact resolution (FCR), and time-to-resolution
  • Proven ability to manage overall business initiative or several components of a large, complex project with direct experience in Agile and Scrum
  • Ability to engage with self awareness as required to avoid conflicts with customers based on personality differences and to make suggestions in a manner that is more likely to result in a desired outcome.
  • Good project management skills with ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks across various user groups.
  • Basic understanding of Salesforce technologies.
  • Must be a self-starter, willing to learn new technologies (Mulesoft, Heroku) and a Salesforce trailblazer who thrives on working in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong team player with service-oriented attitude and customer focus.

Nice to have

  • Background in SaaS, B2B, or enterprise customer support operations
  • Experience scaling a support portal across a growing or enterprise cus
  • Knowledge of Data Privacy, FedRAMP / CMMC or similar regulations, highly desirable.
  • Understanding of customer analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Amplitude)
  • Mulesoft
  • Heroku

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen operating on U.S. Soil with ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan.
  • FedRAMP compliant
  • Data Privacy, FedRAMP / CMMC or similar regulations