VP, Software Engineering- Commerce Cloud

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Salesforce's Commerce Cloud is a market leader in its category, as recognized by Gartner and other analysts. Commerce is one of the most exciting product areas at Salesforce; E-commerce is a fast-evolving category with a dynamic competitive landscape. We are well-positioned to win in the market, with amazing assets in our portfolio (including B2C Commerce, B2B Commerce, OMS, Marketplaces, Headless, Payments), a diverse and recognizable customer base of world-class companies, and unwavering executive focus.

We're looking for a technically strong engineering leader to build Salesforce's next-generation, agent-first B2B Commerce product-a transformative platform designed to empower businesses and their sales teams with intelligent, seamless, and highly personalized commerce experiences.

This is a unique opportunity to shape one of our fastest-growing business lines, leveraging Salesforce's unmatched ecosystem, advanced AI, and deep industry expertise to deliver solutions that streamline complex B2B transactions, drive customer engagement, and fuel sustainable growth across diverse industries.

If you're passionate about leading high-impact teams and building innovative products that redefine how businesses buy and sell, we want to hear from you.

You are:

• A technical leader with a track record of delivering high quality products and building passionate teams

• Operational & Technical Excellence: Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability through best practices, monitoring, and hands-on technical guidance.

• Entrepreneurial mindset: You thrive on solving complex problems, taking ownership, and driving ideas from conception to production.

• Experienced with Commerce and/or Payments industries and products

• Passionate about high-quality user experience and creating products that engage and delight

• Comfortable leading through ambiguity

• A pragmatic visionary, comfortable bridging the space between big ideas and down-in-the-weeds details

• Skilled at navigating multiple priorities and making architectural tradeoffs to deliver the highest value to customers

Your responsibilities:

• Implement best engineering management and organizational development practices as we continue to scale.

• Build a world class engineering team: Recruit, mentor, and retain world class engineers and managers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous development.

• Build organizational capability within these teams by recruiting and retaining outstanding talent and providing mentoring, training (internal and external), and other opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Represent the Cloud in the senior leadership of the region and form strong relationships with all the local functions related to building and running a successful organization.

• Drive continuous systems improvement for managing, documenting, staffing, and reviewing engineering projects and services.

• Enjoy guiding and mentoring team members to reach the pinnacles of success, but you are always ready to get hands-on, if the situation demands

Required skills and experience:

• Overall 15+ yrs experience and 10+ years of experience as a hands-on software development manager.

• Expereince in engineering leadership of delivering world class software products/features

• Expereince in cross-functional 2nd or 3rd level management roles.

• Experience in building strong, successful technical teams and coaching and mentoring individuals along their career paths.

• Ability to represent operational issues to senior leadership and dive deep into the technical details when required.

• Ability to prioritize in a rapidly changing environment; communicate clearly to steer the strongly talented team to deliver a high quality service.

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Engineering.

Highly desirable:

• Experience with Enterprise B2B software and CRM platforms, especially Salesforce

• Software engineering or equivalent technical experience. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be comfortable having detailed technical conversations and helping make wise tradeoffs.

• Experience with internationalization and localization to serve a global user base.

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