Vp, Professional Services Strategy

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +4

Salesforce is seeking a VP of Professional Services Strategy to lead strategic initiatives for their Professional Services business. This role involves developing and executing strategies, creating strategy documents, partnering with analytics for insights, and developing presentations. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in consulting or business line roles, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and experience in a cross-functional environment. While the company heavily emphasizes AI and AI agents, this specific role focuses on the strategy and operations of professional services, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own a rotating set of strategic initiatives related to the Professional Services business, taking open-ended desired outcomes and developing / executing an approach, conducting research / analysis, and synthesizing information into thoughtful recommendations
  2. Update and refine Professional Services strategy, including developing required strategy documents on an ongoing basis, as needed
  3. Partner with the PS analytics organization to develop data-driven insights and points of view
  4. Develop high quality presentations / documents / analyses, both ad hoc and supporting overall business reviews of PS
  5. Socialize and work with field and operations team to implement initiatives

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 10+ years experience in management consulting, corporate development, and business line roles
  • Experience with professional services
  • Structured problem solving
  • Develop solutions with little guidance
  • High quality, detail oriented outputs
  • Strong communication skills
  • Stakeholder relationship building skills
  • Cross-functional, matrix management environment experience
  • Collaborative, team oriented approach
  • Ability to succeed in a collaborative, fast paced environment
  • Flexibility and ability to adjust on the fly
  • Sense of urgency
  • Organized and efficient
  • Results-oriented
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity
  • Strong executive-level visual and verbal presentation skills
  • Team leadership experience
  • Developing high-performing teams

Nice to have

  • MBA
  • Enterprise software / Software-as-a-Service experience (SaaS)

What the JD emphasized

  • professional services is required
  • Stellar problem solving skills
  • Strong communication and stakeholder relationship building skills
  • Ability to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment
  • Ability to succeed in a collaborative, fast paced environment
  • Organized and efficient, results-oriented and able to move forward without complete information, very comfortable working in ambiguity
  • Strong executive-level visual and verbal presentation skills
  • Team leadership experience and skills developing high-performing teams