Salesforce

Director, Regional Success Architecture - Agentforce

Salesforce$171K — $273K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in consulting or customer success managing complex issues for enterprise clients
  • 5+ years in a management role with proven team leadership experience
  • Experience managing teams of 15+ in large organizations
  • Cloud/SaaS software experience, ideally with global customers
  • Demonstrated ability to achieve operational excellence and strategic outcomes
  • Strong understanding of regional business dynamics
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, including at C-level

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a top-performing team of Success Architects
  • Provide coaching and mentorship to individual team members
  • Drive customer outcomes by effectively organizing resources
  • Create an inclusive culture aligned with Salesforce values
  • Recruit and retain top technical and customer-facing talent
  • Manage customer satisfaction metrics and team KPIs
  • Lead proactive success planning and strategic guidance for customers

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a highly technical and consultative team
  • Work at the forefront of Agentforce success and customer adoption
  • Join an enthusiastic team dedicated to customer value
  • Foster a vibrant, inclusive workplace culture
  • Develop professional skills in a high-growth environment
Full Job Description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

Director, Regional Success Architecture, Agentforce, is a customer-focused leader responsible for Salesforce's most technical success plan aligned role, Success Architects. This role will ensure the highest sustainable level of customer satisfaction with Agentforce across all customer segments. Key responsibilities include managing Success Architects; driving customer adoption and value realization; escalation management; and adherence to established success processes. As a member of the global Agentforce organization, the Director will partner with regional and global stakeholders to deliver world-class customer experiences.

Your Impact
The successful candidate will be independent, self-motivated, proactive, results-oriented, capable of quickly championing change, and influential. You will provide a high level of customer satisfaction through the delivery of exceptional customer success services. You will lead a team of professionals through a high-growth period that requires adaptability and comfort with changing circumstances.

Responsibilities


Leadership & Team Development

  • Build, lead, and develop a world-class team of Success Architects in AMER.

  • Manage individual contributors effectively, providing coaching, mentorship, and support to help them develop professionally and achieve their delivery goals

  • Resource and organize teams effectively to drive customer outcomes across all segments

  • Create a vibrant, inclusive culture that inspires people to do their best work and aligns with Salesforce Core Values

  • Find, hire, and retain the best technical and customer-facing talent in the region

  • Create an environment of stronger employee engagement through regular connects including 1:1s and office hours

  • Demonstrate better together leadership that works together with peer leaders to achieve the best outcomes

  • Secure psychological safety everywhere

Customer Experience & Technical Support

  • Lead the Success Architect team to drive Customer Success through proactive guidance, outcome focused goals, and operational rigor

  • Manage key metrics including customer satisfaction (CSAT), productivity, time to resolve, and outcome achievement

  • Act as an escalation point for high severity customer issues that arise from within the team, directly from customers, or from other Salesforce functions

  • Ensure the team KPIs are met or exceeded across global Architect standards

  • Exemplify a positive customer experience through effective communication in every interaction with the customer

  • Receive and manage customer complaints and escalate to appropriate personnel/team ensuring successful and timely resolution

Customer Success & Value Realization

  • Drive customer adoption of Agentforce capabilities, including coaching your team members on Agentforce Customer Journey key milestones that they need to influence

  • Ensure customers launch Agentforce into production, adopt it widely, and gain continuous business value

  • Manage key success metrics including adoption, customer health, engagements, executive business reviews, retention, and expansion opportunities

  • Build meaningful and lasting relationships with key stakeholders and establish long-term executive relationships

  • Take a hands-on approach to personally create customer wins, references, and case studies

  • Lead Success Architects to deliver proactive success planning and strategic guidance with a consultative approach

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Strategy

  • Work with Support, Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Services, Renewals, and Business Operations to improve overall customer experience

  • Represent the voice of the customer to stakeholders across the organization, including ensuring team contribution to formal product feedback loop process

  • Understand success and implementation services best practices and contribute across teams to continuously improve these practices

  • Execute company policies that affect operations and may have company-wide impact

  • Drive the team to effectively align with changes in a timely manner

  • Inspire continuous improvement in service delivery according to business objectives

  • Demonstrate excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills at all organizational levels, including C-level

Required Qualifications & Skills

Experience

  • 10+ years in consulting/professional services, customer success, or related customer-facing roles, handling complex issues for enterprise customers

  • 5+ years at management level, with proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams

  • Experience managing teams of 15+ individual contributors in enterprise-scale organizations

  • Cloud/SaaS software environment experience, preferably supporting global or regional customers

  • Proven track record of driving both operational excellence and strategic customer outcomes

  • Understanding of regional business dynamics and cultural nuances

  • Technical & Business Acumen

  • Deep understanding of customer service and success best practices

  • Ability to balance tactical execution with strategic thinking

  • Experience with Agentforce, CRM, or similar enterprise software platforms preferred

  • Passion for technology and innovation

  • Strong analytical skills with ability to drive decisions based on data and metrics

  • Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills at all organizational levels, including C-level

  • Ability to influence and build relationships across global teams and cultures

Other Requirements

  • BA/BS Degree in technical, business, or related field (or equivalent relevant experience)

  • Proven ability to work effectively in a matrixed, global organization

What Makes This Role Unique

This is an exciting leadership position at the forefront of Salesforce’s focus on driving Agentforce success and adoption. You'll lead a highly technical and consultative team supporting customers across the entire Agentforce lifecycle. You will join a team of enthusiastic and passionate leaders and individual contributors who are motivated to help customer's find value with their Agentforce solution.

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