Description
Salesforce is seeking a Technical Product Strategist to join its Product Strategy & Innovation team. This role involves working at the intersection of market dynamics, product positioning, and complex technical architecture to define where Salesforce invests, how it positions its platform, and why.
Responsibilities:
- Support long-term product strategy by conducting market studies, whitespace analyses, and competitive assessments
- Analyze productization trajectories of key capabilities and evaluate strategic transitions into standalone product lines or platform-integrated offerings
- Apply 'Build-Buy-Partner' frameworks to conduct structured assessments for internal development, acquisition, or partnership decisions
- Translate technology and market paradigms into clear, data-backed investment theses
- Map portfolio gaps and collaborate with strategy and product management leaders to identify vulnerabilities and market opportunities
- Synthesize cross-functional signals and integrate technical research, engineering capabilities, strategic market intelligence, and M&A trends into solid strategic perspectives
- Assess market viability and perform market sizing, economic modeling, and competitive analyses
- Support global strategic initiatives and adapt platform strategies to international markets
- Evaluate go-to-market models and analyze monetization structures
- Monitor emerging signals and track venture capital activity, developer ecosystem shifts, and emerging research
- Make recommendations to the leadership committee by writing clear, well-structured strategic memos and presentations
Requirements:
- 5-8 years of experience in product strategy, technology strategy, corporate strategy, management consulting, or technical product management at a major cloud or enterprise software company
- Strong structural understanding of enterprise AI/ML architectures, agentic systems, and platform integration patterns
- Command of enterprise systems of record, data platforms, and SaaS infrastructure
- Solid foundation in business model design and experience participating in build-buy-partner assessments
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong comfort with ambiguity and solid quantitative and qualitative problem-solving skills
Nice to Have:
- Master's-level degree in a business or technical field
- Experience in technical strategy, corporate innovation, or technology strategy consulting
- Knowledge of developer platform ecosystems, AI-assisted software development, and modern developer tools
- Hands-on experience or deep knowledge in enterprise supply chain automation, process agentification, or vertical AI applications
- Experience in venture capital, corporate development, or technology investment analysis
- Entrepreneurial, 'builder' mindset focused on evaluating new markets, new business models, and emerging paradigms