Portfolio Leader

About the role

Salesforce is seeking a Portfolio Leader to manage and grow a team of technical AI specialists delivering Agentforce solutions in complex customer environments. This hands‑on leadership role blends engineering excellence with executive‑level influence.

Key responsibilities

• Own capacity planning, talent acquisition and staffing for cross‑functional squads delivering Agentforce at enterprise scale.
• Set engineering standards, unblock complex deployments and scale talent shipping production AI.
• Partner with Product and Engineering on pilot programs and beta rollouts, feeding field insights into the Agentforce roadmap.
• Recruit, mentor and develop technical and strategic builders, driving technical excellence and career growth.
• Monitor delivery metrics, coach teams on optimization and handle high‑stakes customer escalations.
• Serve as final technical escalation point, providing architectural judgment across Salesforce platform, LLM techniques, data pipelines and agentic orchestration.
• Build executive‑level relationships to ensure flawless Agentforce activation, rollout and sustained production value.

Required profile

• 4+ years of direct people management or high‑impact technical leadership of cross‑functional engineering teams.
• Deep architectural understanding of AI, large language models and the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Hands‑on experience architecting or deploying Salesforce Data Cloud and the Agentforce platform.
• Proven ability to engage with global enterprise customers, including CTOs and architects.
• Strong problem‑solving instincts and a "ship‑it" mindset.

Required skills

• AI and large language model (LLM) technologies
• Salesforce platform, Data Cloud and Agentforce
• API integration and data modeling
• Enterprise software implementation
• Tools: Cursor, Claude, Vibes
• Cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) – nice‑to‑have