Technical Architect Director/Senior Director, Trade Promotion Management

Posted 6 Days Ago
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4 Locations
Remote
252K-384K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Software
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The Role
The Technical Architect Director will advise large enterprise customers, lead strategic initiatives, manage risks, and guide technology solutions within Salesforce.
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Customer Success

Job Details

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.

Job Category

Customer Success

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.

The Professional Services organization is focused on delivering Salesforce's world-class product and project offerings to ensure customers are getting the most out of the Salesforce Platform. We help customers accelerate their path to value with Salesforce, focused on making sure you’re set up for long-term success to tap into the full capacity of the Salesforce platform, fast. We help you plan your strategic roadmap and we make sure you are building Salesforce so that it’s easy to maintain and adapt down the road, minimizing potential technical debt.

Our team is made up of thousands of the world’s leading Salesforce experts. We share our own 20 years of product best practices with your team and partners so that you have everything you need to achieve your goals.


TPM Technical Architect Director Role

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Technical Architect Director. You will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers.  Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails: 

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client

  • Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise

  • Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value

  • Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking

  • Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution

  • Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners

  • Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward

  • Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs

  • Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform

Minimum Requirements:

  • 10+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience 

  • 2+ years of experience architecting and implementing Trade Promotion Management capabilities for customers

  • 5+ years of experience leading Salesforce Core Projects

  • 3+ years of experience in Consumer Goods industry

  • Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills

  • Strong presentation skills. Able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences

  • Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies

  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience

  • A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles

  • Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration

  • Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems

  • Strong experience in Integration concepts, designs and patterns

Required Qualities:

  • TRUST: Trusts the company’s core values; shows integrity, transparency, and reliability

  • TEAM PLAYER: Proficient at collaboration and working with members of a team

  • COMMUNICATOR: Speaks and writes with clarity, brevity, and purpose; explains the area of expertise clearly and confidently to others; influences and engages C-Level with authority and confidence

Preferred Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered

  • Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization

  • Application design and development background

  • Travel may be required and varies depending on the client requirements

  • Strong Enterprise Architecture background would be favorable

  • Salesforce product certifications:

    • Salesforce Certified Administrator

    • Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator

    • Platform App Builder

    • Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant

    • Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant

    • Consumer Goods Cloud Accredited Professional

  • Experience architecting and delivering Consumer Good Retail Execution

  • Experience architecting and delivering Consumer Good Trade Promotion Management

Preferred Qualities:

  • LEADERSHIP: Self-aware; proficient at building strong relationships

  • THOUGHT LEADER: Strong point of view and executive presence. Confident, but not arrogant, a great storyteller

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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.

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.

For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $251,900 to $384,100.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $251,900 to $384,100.

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.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA
72,000 Employees
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What We Do

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way.

Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business.

Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.

Why Work With Us

There’s no typical day in the life of a Salesforce employee. You could be transforming our next AI innovation — or transforming your community. Closing deals — or closing your laptop for a day of Volunteer Time Off. Driving change for our customers — or driving change within one of our high-performing teams.

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