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About the Role

Salesforce is hiring a RVP Forward Deployed Engineering, Salesforce / Portfolio Leader to directly manage and grow a team of technical AI specialists deploying Agentforce solutions inside complex customer environments. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can drive engineering excellence while operating at the executive level. You will lead a blended delivery team made up of Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Strategists who co-build and deliver agentic AI solutions with customers. You'll set engineering standards, unblock complex customer deployments, and scale the talent shipping production AI.

Responsibilities

Own capacity planning, talent acquisition, and staffing for cross-functional squads.
Foster an inclusive, high-energy, and psychologically safe engineering culture.
Partner directly with Product and Engineering organizations on pilot programs and beta rollouts.
Recruit, mentor, and develop Technical and Strategic Builders.
Drive technical excellence and structure career growth for teams.
Monitor key delivery metrics and coach teams on optimization.
Run hard on complex customer escalations.
Serve as the final technical escalation point for your portfolio.
Maintain deep architectural judgment across the Salesforce platform, LLM techniques, data pipelines, and agentic orchestration.
Unblock complex data readiness, tool integration, and multi-agent orchestration challenges.
Assess customer technical readiness and remove deployment barriers.
Codify standardized, repeatable delivery methodologies.
Build and anchor strong executive-level relationships within your customer portfolio.
Ensure flawless Agentforce activation, rollout, and sustained production value.
Monitor portfolio health, delivery velocity, and core consumption metrics.
Accelerate progress toward customer business outcomes.
Partner with Services, Account Success, and Product teams to help enterprises activate and consume Agentforce quickly.
Move customers from pilot to production at hyper-speed.

Requirements

5+ years of direct people management or high-impact technical leadership steering cross-functional engineering or technical teams.
Track record of hiring, mentoring, and scaling technical talent.
Deep architectural understanding of AI, LLMs, and the Salesforce ecosystem.
Hands-on experience with enterprise software implementation, data modeling, API integration, and AI deployments.
Direct, hands-on experience architecting or deploying Salesforce Data Cloud and the Agentforce platform.
Strong background navigating high-touch customer strategies at a Global level.
Exceptional executive-level communication and influence skills.
Problem-solving instincts, resourcefulness, and a "get-things-done" demeanor.

Skills

AI
LLMs
Salesforce ecosystem
Enterprise software implementation
Data modeling
API integration
AI deployments
Salesforce Data Cloud
Agentforce platform
Orchestration
Executive-level communication
Multi-agent systems
Prompt engineering pipelines
Deterministic AI guardrails
Cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery)
Enterprise data pipelines

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years of direct people management or high-impact technical leadership

Education Level

Relevant Salesforce certifications (Advanced Admin, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, Sales Cloud, or Agentforce Specialist)

Benefits

Benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best.
AI agents accelerate your impact.

About the Company

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together.
The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
We are Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM.
Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way.
We empower you to be a Trailblazer too, driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world.
If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good, you've come to the right place.

Equal Opportunity

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment.
We believe in equality for all.
We believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination.
Workplace discrimination is illegal.
Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law.
This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey.
It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between.
Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit.
The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
We are a recognised Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme.
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the interview scheme as part of the application process.