# Senior Director, Data Platform

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,400 - $365,200 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director, Data Platform to provide unified leadership to modernize, integrate, and optimize their foundational enterprise data platform.

The ideal candidate will own the platform vision as both a product owner and a technical leader, partnering with Product, Finance, and GTM to turn B2B financial and product usage/adoption data into trusted, decision-ready assets.

Key responsibilities:

- Own and champion the technical vision and roadmap for the enterprise data platform

- Align platform priorities with company goals, particularly AI enablement, analytics modernization, and data-driven decision-making

- Operationalize a data mesh / domain-oriented model with a unified governance and operating model across the data stack

- Provide technical guidance on architecture, data quality, reliability, and SLAs; manage vendors and optimize licensing and infrastructure spend

- Define and certify core B2B financial metrics with consistent definitions across Finance, Product, and Sales

- Drive product usage and adoption data and connect it to financial outcomes

- Build, lead, and mentor a squad-based data team

- Manage managers and ICs: hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development

- Cultivate a collaborative, high-accountability culture and strong cross-functional partnerships

Requirements:

- Proven experience running squad-based data teams and leading people leaders

- Deep familiarity with B2B financials and usage/adoption data

- Strong technical foundation in modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Tableau, Salesforce Data Cloud)

- Experience enabling AI/ML and advanced analytics through large-scale data platform modernization

- Strong background in platform operations, unified governance, and SLA management

- Exceptional communication skills

- Demonstrated success in change management within a complex, matrixed organization

The typical base salary range for this position is $218,400 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- Snowflake
- dbt
- Airflow
- Tableau
- Salesforce Data Cloud
- data mesh
- domain-oriented model
- governance
- SLA management

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