Salesforce

Senior Director, Adoption Programs

Salesforce$150K — $180K *
Business Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in managing large-scale global cross-functional programs
  • Proven ability to develop strategic frameworks and enterprise-level KPIs
  • Exceptional skills in process architecture and program integration
  • Strong communication skills for building consensus with executive stakeholders
  • Experience in Professional Services or managing partner-led implementations is preferred
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and aligning disparate teams
  • MBA is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design and establish a global diagnostic strategy to uncover stalled implementations
  • Leverage data to identify accounts needing assistance with implementations
  • Build reporting views to monitor the account recovery process
  • Create targeted recovery playbooks and deploy resources to address account challenges
  • Identify systemic issues causing stagnation and partner with teams to redesign processes
  • Lead governance processes across business units for effective program execution

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans
  • Flexible work hours and remote work options
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
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Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

We are seeking a Senior Director, Programs within the Customer Success organization to drive a critical outcome: ensuring customers seamlessly transition from the point of sale into value-driving Success Plan engagements. You will achieve this by designing and executing a global program strategy to systematically diagnose, unblock, and accelerate accounts stalled during this transition. Success requires deep cross-functional collaboration with Professional Services, Security, Product, and Partner teams to orchestrate initiatives that deliver systemic, long-term business outcomes.

Responsibilities
- Design Global Diagnostic Strategy: Establish the global strategy, business logic, and telemetry thresholds across single and multi-cloud environments to systematically segment, track, and uncover stalled implementations.
- Data-Driven Account Identification: Leverage organization telemetry and sandbox insights to proactively identify accounts that have not started, are stuck, or are missing foundational product features.
- Build Pipeline Visibility & Recovery Funnels: Architect reporting views and structured process funnels to monitor account progress along the recovery path, ensuring full visibility into health metrics and progression.
- Orchestrate Intervention & Playbooks: Design targeted recovery playbooks and deploy a strategic mix of Customer Success (CS) and Professional Services (PS) resources to systematically unblock accounts.
- Drive Upstream Transformation: Look beyond the immediate pipeline of stalled accounts to isolate systemic, upstream structural issues (e.g., handoff gaps, product barriers). Partner with Product, Engineering, and Alliances to redesign processes and prevent future stalls.
- Lead Cross-Functional Governance: Establish the operating models, communication rhythms, and feedback loops across business units to secure resource allocation and prioritize program execution.

Required Skillset & Key Competencies
Enterprise Leadership: 15+ years of demonstrated experience managing large-scale, global cross-functional programs that span multiple enterprise SaaS product lines or clouds.
Ability to think and operate in strategic frameworks
Operational Clarity & Scale: Proven ability to define clear program ownership, execute a "crawl-walk-run" approach to scaling initiatives, and establish enterprise-level KPIs while managing team capacity.
Process Architecture: Exceptional workflow-design capabilities, ensuring program frameworks integrate frictionless into matrixed organizational models.
Executive Gravitas & Influence: A master communicator capable of building "pre-wired" consensus, securing hard commitments from executive stakeholders, and translating complex operational data into compelling business narratives.
Ecosystem Expertise: Direct experience within Professional Services (PS) or managing partner-led implementation services is a significant plus.
Ambiguity & Navigation: Exceptional comfort dealing with ambiguity and structural friction, with the political savvy to align disparate teams under shared organizational goals.
MBA preferred

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