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About Salesforce
We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.
About Salesforce
We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.
Role Description
Global Readiness is laser-focused on product quality and addressing barriers to adoption. We play a pivotal role by ensuring customer needs and CSG requirements are addressed from the early stages of product conception through to post-General Availability (GA). In addition, we inform Success Plans that deliver proactive and reactive support and expertise customers need to successfully use our products.
Global Readiness serves as Innovators and Strategic Partners to Technology & Product (T&P) to test and validate product viability and bring architectural guidance and product expertise to our stakeholders. We maintain a deep understanding of product solutions and capabilities and understanding of how they map to key customer use cases. We understand adoption barriers at all points of the customer experience and create remediation approaches leveraging the broader Salesforce ecosystem.
As a leader in the Customer SuccessGlobal Readiness team, you will be deeply invested in every aspect of the customer experience, focused on GenAI, from Go-to-Market to adoption and growth. You will engage with leaders across Technology & Product (T&P) and our Customer Success Group (CSG) to ensure that we are delivering Customer Success to every customer at scale.
The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of AI technologies and their applications, coupled with a proven track record of translating strategy into actionable plans and outcomes.
Your Impact
- Act as executive sponsor and champion for driving overall Success requirements for our GenAI products and features based on performance insights, practical application experience and feedback from CSG stakeholders.
- Establish & lead relationship with senior-level T&P and CSG functional leaders of our GenAI products and features. Act as a liaison to different departments, facilitating communication, and ensuring alignment.
- Set and maintain the Success strategy for GenAI readiness, ensuring the Readiness Roadmap reflects the most impactful T&P innovations; requires deep understanding of the overall GenAI product roadmap and strategy.
- Identify measurable business outcomes to deliver on Global Readiness commitments and Customer Health.
- Develop agreed upon metrics by CSG & T&P to measure and improve product quality.
- Leverage deep product, domain and business knowledge to define our readiness approach in response to the GenAI roadmap and other products and features impacting GenAI such as Sales, Marketing, Service, Commerce and/or Data Cloud.
- Monitor key customer adoption performance metrics and iterate on the adoption and retention strategy based on data-driven insights to achieve performance targets.
- Understanding emerging and existing GenAI capabilities and interoperability with Salesforce product portfolio.
- Stay up-to-date on GenAI evolution, GenAI companies (including fund-raising events, third-party investments, partnerships, and joint ventures), and overall macro trends on GenAI.
Minimum Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive experience in a Customer Success or Product Management leadership role in the SaaS industry; proven ability to set a vision, excite and lead cross-functional teams.
- Proven leader with a blend of superior strategic, operational, and leadership skills with a track record of developing teams of subject matter experts who deliver against strategic business initiatives.
- Outstanding executive-level engagement skills, understands how senior leaders think and work and can anticipate their needs; can paint credible picture and visions of possibilities and likelihoods that drive well-informed decision making.
- Extensive Experience with in-depth understanding of critical customer use cases on GenAI technology.
- Ability to develop customer adoption insights incorporating market research, customer feedback, and industry trends to identify growth opportunities.
- Ability to work well in cross-functional teams, including Product, Sales, CSG and Alliances with a highly collaborative, team oriented approach to problem solving.
- Deep understanding of the sales processes and challenges faced by businesses, with the ability to translate customer needs into product enhancement ideas and solutions.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills: ability to structure sophisticated problems, develop executable solutions; skilled at managing competing and evolving priorities.
- Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations. Self-starter and high degree of motivation to go above and beyond the task at hand.
- Strong communication and relationship building skills as well as demonstration of effective virtual teaming.
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science; Advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science with a business degree (e.g., MBA) or equivalent experience is preferred.
- Willingness to travel occasionally, as required.
Our Investment In You
- World-class enablement and on-demand training - check out Trailhead.com for a sneak peek!
- Exposure to executive thought leaders with a passion for living our values
- Clear path to promotion with accelerated leadership development programs
- Weekly 1:1 coaching with your leadership
- Fast Ramp mentorship program
- Week-long product bootcamp
- Sandler Sales Training
Volunteer Opportunities
Have you heard of our 1:1:1 model, focused on giving back to the community? The success in giving back have helped us and our Trailblazer community become a leader in philanthropy, culture, and innovation. We are one of the World's Most Innovative Companies, according to Forbes, we are #1 in PEOPLE's Top 15 Companies that Care, and are on Fortune's Change the World list. Values create value. Our values helped drive our revenue number to $13.28 billion dollars in fiscal years in 2019.
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- Health benefits
- Financial benefits and perks
- Time off and leave policies
- Parental benefits
- Perks and discounts
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For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $198,800 to $330,800.
For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $180,700 to $275,700.
For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $180,700 to $303,200.
For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $198,800 to $330,800.
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
