Senior Director - Data Platform

Salesforce is hiring a Senior Director - Data Platform in Seattle, United States. It pays $218k-$365k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Salesforce.

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Job Category

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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 Senior Director, Data Platform will provide unified leadership to modernize, integrate, and optimize our foundational enterprise data platform. This platform is mission-critical for enabling AI innovation, advanced analytics, and trusted self-service data access at scale. In this role, you will own the platform vision as both a product owner and a technical leader, partnering with Product, Finance, and GTM to turn B2B financial and product usage/adoption data into trusted, decision-ready assets.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

Own and champion the technical vision and roadmap for the enterprise data platform.
Align platform priorities with company goals, particularly AI enablement, analytics modernization, and data-driven decision-making.
Operationalize a data mesh / domain-oriented model with a unified governance and operating model across the data stack.
Provide technical guidance on architecture, data quality, reliability, and SLAs; manage vendors and optimize licensing and infrastructure spend.
Define and certify core B2B financial metrics (ARR, bookings, billings, revenue recognition, renewals, churn, expansion, NRR) with consistent definitions across Finance, Product, and Sales.
Drive product usage and adoption data (activations, active users, consumption, feature adoption, health scoring) and connect it to financial outcomes such as renewal risk, upsell, and overages.
Build, lead, and mentor a squad-based data team of data engineers, analysts, analytics engineers, and product partners, with clear ownership, goals/OKRs, and roadmaps.
Manage managers and ICs: hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
Cultivate a collaborative, high-accountability culture and strong cross-functional partnerships with Product, Security, Data Governance, Finance, and Business Units.

You're Our Person If...

Proven experience running squad-based data teams and leading people leaders, with a record of delivering predictably across competing stakeholders.
Deep familiarity with B2B financials and usage/adoption data, including metric standardization and data products.
Strong technical foundation in modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Tableau, Salesforce Data Cloud) and the ability to guide engineering decisions.
Experience enabling AI/ML and advanced analytics through large-scale data platform modernization.
Strong background in platform operations, unified governance, and SLA management.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence executive leadership and technical audiences.
Demonstrated success in change management within a complex, matrixed 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.

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 $218,400 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 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

Senior Director - Data Platform at Salesforce rates 21 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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

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