Senior Director, Platform Content Experience Job at Salesforce in San Francisco
Salesforce, San Francisco, CA, United States
Job Category: Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure
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The Content Experience (CX) team creates various types of content to help customers discover, adopt, and succeed with Salesforce. We are hiring a Senior Director to lead our Platform CX organization. The Salesforce Platform is made up of a complex and powerful set of tools and capabilities. Our challenge is to make it easy by providing onboarding, how-to, training, and technical content to enable all audiences who customize or build solutions, apps, and agents on our platform.
This is a hybrid work environment with a minimum of 10 days/quarter in office (San Francisco, CA).
As leader for Platform CX, you will:
- Work with managers, writers, and specialists to develop a compelling strategic vision and roadmap for how content supports the Platform business.
- Share your team’s priorities and accomplishments with CX, cross-functional leaders, stakeholders, and executives.
- Rigorously prioritize work and assignments and lead the execution and delivery of your team’s roadmap.
- Regularly measure performance and customer success and make adjustments to your team’s strategy based on research and feedback.
- Inspire, coach, mentor, and provide professional development for a team of around 50 managers, content strategists, content designers, and writers.
- Balance trade-offs to always deliver the highest value for customers while maintaining a sustainable workload for your team.
- Drive innovation while improving productivity by streamlining operations and incorporating new tools and technologies.
- Recruit, hire, and onboard new writers and managers as the team grows.
- Contribute your leadership to overall Content Experience team initiatives.
Required Experience/Skills:
- 10+ years of experience in the technical content development field.
- 5+ years in a management role, with at least 2 years managing other managers.
- 2+ years experience creating developer documentation or managing developer documentation teams.
- Strong strategic planning skills and experience.
- Experience leading organizations and managing operations.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to inspire and empower cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Strategic problem solver with a data-driven approach.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, preferably in technology.
- A degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
Desired Experience/Skills:
- Familiarity with Salesforce products and ecosystem.
- Experience with web or mobile software development.
- Experience with generative AI and LLM-based solutions.
- Experience with source control software such as Perforce or GitHub.
- Experience with technical authoring and publishing tools.
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