Director of Product Management

Salesforce is hiring a Director of Product Management in San Francisco, United States. It pays $197k-$314k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Salesforce.

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Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions Claude and AI agents among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as an executive role.
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Job Category

Product

Job Details

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.

The Experience

The MeshMesh team is building the next-generation mesh networking platform for Salesforce customers. As the Director of Product Management, you will set the product strategy, vision, and roadmap, and lead a team of product managers who turn customer needs into products that matter.

You will provide insights that fuel critical decisions across the company, including executive leadership.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

Define and own the product strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap.
Lead, hire, coach, and develop a team of product managers.
Partner with Solution Engineering to embed agentic solution engineering into the product lifecycle, using AI agents and AI coding tools to build prototypes, demos, and proofs of value that validate ideas with customers early.
Translate customer and field insights into prioritized use cases and clear requirements for engineering.
Partner with engineering leaders and architects to plan, scope, and deliver the roadmap.
Define success metrics and use quantitative and qualitative data to drive prioritization and measure impact.
Work through ambiguity and align executives, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and other internal partners on priorities.
Communicate product strategy, roadmap, and results to executive leadership, customers, and the field.
Lead large cross-functional programs from concept through launch and adoption.

You're Our Person If...

You have 10+ years of proven experience in product management or a related field, including 4+ years leading product managers.
You have experience with the SaaS business model and shipping enterprise products at scale.
You work effectively with technical and business leaders, including executives.
You can translate business requirements into product and technical requirements and a practical roadmap.
You navigate decision-making and communicate effectively across teams.
You are an Agentic Product leader - you build with Claude and similar AI tools, using agent loops, tool use, and you coach your team to do the same.
You have a degree or equivalent relevant experience.

Even Better If...

You have experience driving agentic solution engineering practices with Solution Engineering and Engineering teams.
You love data and analytics, using quantitative and qualitative metrics to build a roadmap.
You have deep empathy for customers and can work with tech, billing, legal, sales, and data platform teams.
You have excellent written communication skills.
You have experience with the Salesforce Platform, including Agentforce, and agile methodologies.
You can lead through influence across a complex organization.

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.

Accommodations

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $197,300 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 - $344,700 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

How we rate this

Director of Product Management at Salesforce rates 66 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Director of Product Management is an open job at Salesforce.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $197k-$314k a year.
The role is based in California - San Francisco.
The job was posted on November 13, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by Salesforce. Apply on Salesforce

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