Principal Design Program Manager

Salesforce•Seattle, WA

About The Position

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. Salesforce experience Operations is looking for a self-starting, organized, and experienced Principal Design Program Manager (DPM). Working hand-in-hand with the UX team is the Salesforce Design Operations team, a talented group of professionals that create the conditions for great design to flourish. We are growing, and we are looking for you. Will you join us? Your Impact - Responsibilities This role requires someone who is a relationship builder and an operational thinker; someone who is fluent in the best practices of user experience and design delivery, and who wants to empower the Experience Design team to partner with our product teams in a sustainable and healthy way. How will you do this? You will operationalize how our design and real search team works together, and create rituals and cadences that foster team connection, a shared purpose, and a collaborative UX community. You’ll create new processes and frameworks that help Experience teams define, prioritize, and review its work, and then bring this work forward for consumption by Salesforce’s other UX teams. You will connect the dots between our product teams’ roadmaps and UX’s priorities and deliverables, helping both groups manage design dependencies and deliver successfully. You’ll liaise with design leadership and build strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders. You will be the point-of-contact for a complex network of business units and functions, and own regular communications up, down, and out to assure alignment and clarity of goals. Lastly, you’ll be the strategic nerve center the product UX’s leadership team, coordinating reviews, leading team events, and coordinating presentation material for partner audiences.

Requirements

BS in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
At least 7 years experience working in enterprise software in any combination of Design, DesignOps, or PgM roles.
Outstanding partnership, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
The ability to collaborate well in a cross-functional, matrix’d management environment, and work across multiple departments and business units.
Proven experience partnering directly with product management and engineering teams, with an understanding of their priorities, constraints, and how UX informs their work streams.
Thorough familiarity with how design gets done. Understand what happens when and why, what natural dependencies exist, how to mitigate risks, and when it’s OK to be visionary (and when it’s not).
Superb communication skills that shine in-person and across multiple mediums. The talent to tell a story, advocate for a project or program, and facilitate understanding to different audiences at whichever level is appropriate.
Strong understanding of what it takes to ship software at scale.
Experience running projects using agile and/or scrum processes, and understand development team make-ups (i.e., roles, responsibilities, and how they interact).
Ability to learn and master internal project management tools to ensure design work is properly represented and tracked, and contribute new tools and processes to make work more visible to the entire organization.

Nice To Haves

Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives, and technical and non-technical team members.
An internal compass that points towards ethics and equality, and the conviction to speak up if we stray off-course.
Demonstrated ability to influence peers and managers, and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.
Experience running events and programs for internal teams, external customers, or both at the same time!
Experience designing and thinking in systems, not just single-purpose apps.
Experience designing for visual page builders, mobile apps, content management systems, app development tools.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Responsibilities

operationalize how our design and real search team works together, and create rituals and cadences that foster team connection, a shared purpose, and a collaborative UX community
create new processes and frameworks that help Experience teams define, prioritize, and review its work, and then bring this work forward for consumption by Salesforce’s other UX teams
connect the dots between our product teams’ roadmaps and UX’s priorities and deliverables, helping both groups manage design dependencies and deliver successfully
liaise with design leadership and build strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders
be the point-of-contact for a complex network of business units and functions, and own regular communications up, down, and out to assure alignment and clarity of goals
be the strategic nerve center the product UX’s leadership team, coordinating reviews, leading team events, and coordinating presentation material for partner audiences