Senior Product Manager, Project & Program Management, Emerging Technology

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · New York, NY +1

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Project & Program Management within their Emerging Technology team. This role focuses on bringing structure to ambiguity, clearing blockers, and helping product owners execute complex, cross-functional projects in a 0-to-1 environment. The role requires strong program management skills, comfort with ambiguity, AI fluency for using AI tools, and experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with product owners: Work side-by-side with PMs to plan, sequence, and execute their projects. Help break big problems into shippable milestones and hold the line on scope and timelines
  2. Drive cross-functional coordination: Own the coordination layer across engineering, design, data, security, and partner teams. Proactively identify dependencies and get ahead of blockers before they stall progress
  3. Navigate partner team complexity: ET projects almost always touch other orgs — help PMs understand and manage the nuance of cross-org work so nothing falls through the cracks
  4. Run project cadences: Stand up and facilitate the right rituals for each project — standups, milestone check-ins, sprint reviews, and stakeholder syncs. Keep them lightweight and useful, never ceremonial
  5. Create clarity on status and risk: Maintain honest, clear project health updates that give leadership visibility without creating overhead for the PMs doing the work. Surface risks early and facilitate trade-off decisions

Skills

Required

  • 5–8 years of experience in program management, technical program management, or project-oriented product management within enterprise technology
  • Proven track record of driving complex, cross-functional projects to completion across multiple teams and orgs simultaneously, managing dependencies and competing priorities without losing momentum
  • Deep comfort operating in ambiguity — you move fast, cut scope when needed, and optimize for outcomes over process without waiting for perfect information
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills: you can translate messy project dynamics into clear, honest updates for executives and individual contributors alike, and build trust quickly with PMs, engineers, designers, and business partners
  • Fluency in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) with the judgment to adapt frameworks to what the team actually needs
  • AI fluency: comfortable using AI tools to accelerate work, remove bottlenecks, and help teams ship faster
  • Hands-on experience with modern project management tools like Linear, with a perspective on how tooling can improve team velocity and visibility

Nice to have

  • Experience working within or alongside internal platform or infrastructure teams at a large technology company
  • Familiarity with Salesforce's product and engineering org structure
  • Background in 0-to-1 product development or innovation programs
  • Experience coaching or mentoring product managers on execution practices
  • A related technical degree

What the JD emphasized

  • Proven track record of driving complex, cross-functional projects to completion across multiple teams and orgs simultaneously, managing dependencies and competing priorities without losing momentum
  • Deep comfort operating in ambiguity — you move fast, cut scope when needed, and optimize for outcomes over process without waiting for perfect information
  • AI fluency: comfortable using AI tools to accelerate work, remove bottlenecks, and help teams ship faster