Salesforce

Director, Experience Design - Keynote Demos

Salesforce$197K — $313K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years leading Product Design (UX) or experience design teams in enterprise software, SaaS, platform, or AI environments.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in interaction design and storytelling.
  • Deep understanding of AI tools and applications in workflow, staying informed about industry trends.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and transition between strategy, narrative, and execution.
  • Strong communication skills with experience in high-visibility environments.
  • Clear perspective on AI's impact on design and product interaction.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design vision for Salesforce's strategic demos and presentations.
  • Collaborate with the core design organization to align experiences with product direction.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive narrative and product truth.
  • Translate complex platform capabilities into engaging customer experiences.
  • Drive high standards of design quality across various surfaces, including mobile and web.
  • Ensure clarity and execution in workstreams while maintaining high-quality output.
  • Communicate complex design visions effectively to stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Work on high-impact projects shaping the future of design and technology.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a creative and innovative environment.
  • Opportunity to influence design strategy at a leading tech company.
  • Engage directly with executive stakeholders and high-profile presentations.
  • Access to the latest AI tools and technologies for design work.
Full Job Description

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Job Category

User Experience

Job Details

This is a strategic design leadership role focused on helping customers understand the value of the Agentic Enterprise through demos, storytelling, and experience design.

As Experience Design Director, you will lead the design vision behind Salesforce’s most strategic keynote demos, executive presentations, and customer engagements. You will work across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Communications, and Demo Engineering teams to shape experiences that are clear, credible, and grounded in how the business actually works.

This role sits at the intersection of storytelling, systems thinking, interaction design, and platform strategy. As AI reshapes how experiences are designed and built, this role will help shape how Salesforce approaches design, prototyping, and storytelling.


Responsibilities
  • Vision & Strategy:Lead the design vision for keynote demos, executive presentations, customer engagements, and strategic storytelling moments on salesforce largest stages.

  • Build strong alignment with Salesforce’s core design organization:  Act as a strategic partner and collaborate confidently to ensure strategic experiences both reflect and influence the broader product experience direction.

  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, PMM, Demo Engineering, and Communications teams: to align narrative, interaction, and product truth.

  • Translate complex platform capabilities into intuitive and compelling end-to-end customer experiences.

  • Craft & Excellence: Drive a culture of craft, bringing consumer-grade design and high-fidelity execution and consistency across interaction models, UX patterns, visual systems, and storytelling across surfaces including Slack, mobile, web, and voice.

  • Operational Discipline: Drive clarity and execution within your workstreams, ensuring high-velocity delivery without sacrificing craft. You will raise the bar through peer mentorship, design critique, and consistent improvement.

  • Executive Influence: Present complex design visions to key stakeholders, delivering audience-aware communications that translate design decisions into clear presentations and impact.

Qualifications
  • 10+ years leading Product Design (UX), or experience design teams, delivering high-quality demos to Executive and public. within enterprise software, SaaS, platform, or AI environments.

  • Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in interaction design, systems thinking, storytelling, and complex enterprise workflows translated into compelling customer-facing experiences.

  • Deep understanding of AI, AI tools, and their applications in workflow; a passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry developments and using the latest AI tools.

  • Ability to manage ambiguity and move fluidly between strategy, narrative, prototyping, and execution.

  • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills with experience operating in high-visibility environments.

  • Clear point of view on how AI is reshaping product interaction, storytelling, and the future role of design.


Why This Role Matters

Design plays a critical role in making technology understandable, credible, and actionable. In a world where AI can rapidly generate interfaces and prototypes, differentiation increasingly comes from clarity, coherence, and trust. This role helps Salesforce communicate the value of the Agentic Enterprise in ways customers can immediately understand and believe.

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