Senior Director
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The India Professional Services team at Salesforce delivers top-notch solutions and expert guidance to help clients maximize their Salesforce investment. Our experienced professionals specialize in implementation, customization, integration, and strategic consulting. Committed to excellence and customer success, we empower businesses to transform operations and achieve their goals in the digital age.
We are seeking an experienced and strategic Regional Vice President/Senior Director, Engagement of Professional Services to lead and scale our presales & engagement teams within the CRM solutions space. This leadership role requires a strong background in pre-sales, customer-facing consulting , Salesforce technologies and deep engagement with technical stakeholders such as Chief Technical Architects , CIOs and CTOs.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for building strong advisory relationships with clients, guiding digital transformation journeys, ensuring solution excellence, and collaborating across departments to drive business value using salesforce and agentforce for enterprise clients.
Passion for:
Proactively leading customer and internal conversations with a point of view, drawing from previous experiences to create a clear path forward.
- Provide the Professional Services team & customers with Subject Matter Expertise related to the proposed solution and client needs in order to ensure successful transformation.
- Deep understanding of factors that drive customer success for Salesforce (or similar) implementations within an enterprise context and how they directly contribute to long term customer retention
- Lead conversations with empathy and be comfortable dwelling in the problem domain before solutioning
- Quickly build credibility in fast-moving environments with a diverse set of stakeholders
- Proactively work with the services and licence sales opportunities to identify new and tangential opportunities
Attention to detail:
Partnering effectively to create a detailed execution plan, SOW & commercial proposition to best meet the needs of our customers.
- Aligning closely with Account (Licenses Sales) and Services Sales teams to own pre-sales activities such as scoping, solutioning, SOW development and project staffing.
- Leading the development of client-specific implementation proposals, SOWs, staffing plans, engaging with SMEs across the organization to gain consensus on an acceptable proposal.
- Where appropriate and required for Customer Success, providing direct oversight to the project team during the full lifecycle of the engagement.
- Retain and nurture relationships post-engagement to ensure ongoing opportunities are realized and acted upon appropriately
- Manage project- and account-level escalations as needed
- Anticipate needs and position training, support, and other solutions that may be needed for a successful customer experience
- Ensure that engagements conclude with fully satisfied clients that are willing to be referenced for new potential clients
- Manage multiple strategic clients simultaneously
- Navigating and engaging within our partner ecosystems, where partners may simultaneously work with you and compete with you around a common set of accounts.
- The ability to proactively identify and mitigate risks to customer success, be it through the addition of new products and services, strategy & planning, or escalation
- Proactively mitigate and manage critical escalations and at-risk accounts; communicate effectively and appropriately with internal and external leaders and executives.
Required Experience & Education:
- 18+ years experience delivering or leading consulting engagements, including team leadership and active involvement in selling professional services
- 5+ years experience writing SOWs, negotiating T&Cs, managing bookings and utilization, managing C-level client relationships, including escalation resolution and enterprise-level project management experience
- 5+ years operating in a pre-sales environment, shaping and scoping large and complex implementation projects in the India region.
- Entrepreneurial and "lead from the front". You're a proven leader and motivator, with deep experience leading teams & technical organizations. You drive results and outcomes while balancing empathy and a people-first culture.
- Experience in the Financial Services, Retail, Auto & Communications industry is an advantage
- Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, executive level presence and experience in working in a client advisory role
- Able to command a group audience, lead with a point of view, facilitate solutioning and lead discussions such as implementation methodology, project roadmaps, social enterprise strategy, mobile strategy and executive-level requirement gathering sessions
- Highly developed soft skills, with the ability to adjust communication style based on the audience and difficult client situations.
- Excellent analytical & problem solving skills.
- Collaborative and consultative work style, ability to thrive in a high velocity, highly dynamic work environment
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage teams through influence while also functioning as an individual contributor / team member.
- History of working in a consultative selling environment, where clients seek and value your opinions and see your advice as objective and unbiased
- Enterprise transformation experience, including a track record of selling or delivering targeted engagements that will underpin Salesforce's "customer company" strategy
- Salesforce CRM Solution Architecture experience is mandatory for this role.
- Salesforce - Any active certifications, and trailhead ranger preferred
- Continuous learner who invested their time in the Salesforce eco system preferred.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what's possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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