# Director, AI Labs Scouts

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is seeking a Director, AI Labs Scouts to join their team. As Director of AI Ventures, you will continuously map emerging AI technologies, products, and markets, developing relationships across the ecosystem to identify founders, teams, and technologies that could materially strengthen a market-leading AI strategy.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build and continuously maintain a landscape of companies, labs, founders, technologies, investors, and emerging categories within your focus area.

- Source acquisition, partnership, licensing, acquihire, and strategic opportunities before they become broadly marketed.

- Maintain deep relationships with founders, professors, VCs, accelerators, technical communities, and other ecosystem leaders.

- Attend and sponsor relevant conferences, hackathons, founder gatherings, and industry events to build proprietary market intelligence.

- Produce concise assessments of emerging companies and categories for AI Labs leadership.

- Develop and constantly refresh clear points of view on where AI markets are moving and where Salesforce should build, buy, partner, or continue watching.

- Partner with M&A and Strategic Finance to transition qualified opportunities into formal diligence and deal processes.

**Requirements:**

- Experience in DeepTech and product-centric venture capital, startup investing, company building, or a highly relevant AI ecosystem role.

- Strong network across founders, labs, professors, investors, and emerging technology companies.

- Deep curiosity and fluency in AI markets and technologies, and enterprise software.

- Ability to move between technical trends, business models, founder assessment, and strategic implications.

- Strong executive communication and judgment.

- Ideally a former founder, senior associate/principal/junior partner from a leading VC firm, or equivalent ecosystem profile.

**Benefits:** 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.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- DeepTech
- venture capital
- startup investing
- company building

### Nice to have
- AI markets and technologies
- enterprise software
- technical trends
- business models
- founder assessment
- strategic implications

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