Senior Director, Software Engineering - Slack Application Architecture and Systems

Salesforce is hiring a Senior Director of Engineering to lead Slack’s Application Architecture and Systems organization. The role sets technical strategy and oversees shared client infrastructure, frameworks, accessibility, APIs, and components across web, desktop, and mobile, while developing a large engineering organization and partnering with Product and Design.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering organization — Own the Application Architecture and Systems engineering organization across web, desktop, and mobile. Hire, develop, and retain engineering managers and senior ICs
• Set technical strategy — Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Slack's client infrastructure. Partner with your Product counterparts to set ambitious strategy and make clear tradeoffs
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence — Establish high standards for performance, reliability, quality, and craft in the team's work and culture
• Evolve development for the agentic era — Reshape how client engineering teams build and ship so they can move faster without sacrificing quality, including with AI coding agents
• Own shared platforms — Steward the frameworks, components, design-system foundations, and internal client APIs that every Slack product team depends on
• Champion accessibility — Make accessibility a first-class part of how Slack is built
• Partner across the company — Collaborate with executive peers in Product, Design, and Engineering across Slack and Salesforce to align priorities and resolve dependencies
• Build a connected, global team — Unite a distributed, hybrid organization into a cohesive, high-performing culture
• Up-level team performance — In your first 60–90 days, assess the org, set strategy, and raise technical excellence and team performance

Requirements:

• You have significant experience leading product infrastructure engineering at a company with a complex, large-scale client application
• You have experience in client infrastructure. Web and mobile are both a plus, but more depth in one is fine
• You have a track record leading large engineering organizations, including managing managers and coaching senior leaders
• You can set technical strategy and work with Product and Design to turn it into a roadmap
• You hold teams to a high bar on performance, reliability, and quality
• You collaborate well across functions without direct authority over all parties
• You have a related technical degree
• You have experience leading engineering teams through the shift to AI-assisted and agentic development
• You have led distributed teams through organizational change
• You have experience with accessibility
• You have experience with Electron native desktop applications
• You have experience building or scaling design systems