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Customer Success
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About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Success Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of transforming how customers experience and adopt Salesforce technology, rolling up your sleeves to make it happen. This isn't just about troubleshooting issues or answering questions; it's about deeply understanding our customers' most complex challenges and crafting innovative solutions that accelerate adoption and drive measurable business value throughout our Salesforce platform.
The **Success Engineer **will welcome our newest customers post-sale before they begin the implementation process. You'll continue to serve customers throughout their journey as a technical champion who not only resolves sophisticated platform challenges but also proactively guides them to better leverage Salesforce products, features, and best practices. Success in this role means accelerating customer adoption, strengthening their technical health and helping customers demonstrate tangible business impact through your reactive and proactive technical efforts.
This role requires someone who can think like both an engineer and a consultant – diagnosing root causes while simultaneously identifying opportunities to elevate how customers use our technology. If you're energized by solving hard problems, building customer relationships, and seeing the direct impact of your technical work on customer success, this role is for you.
YOUR IMPACT:
- ****Welcome & Onboard New Customers for Success: ****Serve as the technical welcoming committee for customers post-sale. Conduct initial technical discovery sessions and create personalized onboarding plans that set customers up for immediate wins. You'll be their first technical partner, ensuring a smooth transition from sales to implementation and building the foundation for long-term success.
- ****Accelerate Product Adoption & Feature Utilization: ****Proactively engage with customers to drive faster time-to-value by identifying adoption gaps, demonstrating high-impact features, and creating tailored success path plans. Leverage your deep technical engagement to identify underutilized features, expansion opportunities, and strategic use cases that maximize their investment and achieve production outcomes quickly. Own measurable technical outcomes including acceleration of time-to-production, increased adoption of priority features, improved integration reliability, and demonstrated operational efficiency gains".
- ****Deliver Mission-Critical Support with Speed & Precision: ****Respond with urgency when customers face time-sensitive, business-impacting issues across the Salesforce platform, including complex data integrations, API challenges, and familiarity with AI/Agentforce implementations. Rapidly diagnose root causes, coordinate critical escalations, and communicate clearly throughout the resolution process. You'll be their technical lifeline during challenging moments, balancing speed with thoroughness to ensure exceptional support experiences.
- **Champion Best Practices & Long-Term Success: **Directly guide and implement engineering best practices for code quality, scalability, security, and maintainability across customer solutions. Translate customer business objectives into architectural recommendations, adapting communication style to stakeholder maturity and sentiment. Systematically synthesize recurring technical friction patterns across accounts and translate them into prioritized, data-backed product feedback in partnership with Product and Engineering teams. You'll be an evangelist for doing things the right way, ensuring sustainable customer success.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong background in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline
Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Java, Python, Apex)
2+ years of experience working with enterprise software platforms, with strong knowledge of technical governance, system architecture, and best practices (CRM or cloud platform experience a plus), including:
- Process orchestration
- Master data management (MDM)
- AI and analytics integration
- Security and compliance best practices
Ability to assess technical environments and provide recommendations aligned with Salesforce Well-Architected principles
Familiarity with declarative automation (Flow, Process Builder, Workflow Rules)
Skill in explaining complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
Experience assessing business objectives and driving stakeholder alignment across organizational levels
Excellent collaboration, facilitation and communication skills, both written and verbal
Proven track record of end-to-end delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions in a professional environment
Demonstrated entrepreneurship, a "get-things-done" attitude, and a focus on fast delivery
Customer-centric mindset with proven ability to build consultative relationships and act as a trusted advisor
Ability to balance reactive problem-solving with proactive customer engagement and strategic thinking
Ability to navigate, escalate, and lead efforts on complex customer requests
Ability to prioritize, multi-task, collaborate with team members and perform effectively under pressure
Advanced oral and written English.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in customer-facing, hands-on technical roles such as Technical Support, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, or Customer Success Engineering
- Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud and/or Agentforce platform
- Experience developing conversational AI solutions within regulated industries
- Experience building solutions with AI/LLM technologies, including integrating LLMs, applying AI orchestration frameworks, and prompt engineering techniques
- Familiarity with data modeling, processing, integration, and analytics, with demonstrable proficiency in data platforms (e.g., Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks)
- Portuguese skills are a great added value.
Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core proficiencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, volunteer work, etc.).
NOTE: By applying to the Success Engineer posting recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring these roles will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!
- World-class enablement and on-demand training withTrailhead.com
- Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership
- Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community
- For more details, visithttps://www.salesforcebenefits.com/
**In school, or graduated within the past 12 months? Please visit ****FutureForce ****for opportunities. **
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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