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Director, UX Foundations Engineering

Role Description
Salesforce is looking for a technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leader to lead our software engineering teams! You will run and lead a team/teams of outstanding developers and keep quality in mind. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!

Join Salesforce as a Director in UX Foundations Engineering and lead the UX Foundations team to new heights. This leadership role requires a blend of strategic vision, engineering expertise, and a passion for design systems. You'll oversee the development of tools that uphold design system best practices, prevent anti-patterns, manage change seamlessly, and provide actionable insights for code readiness. Your leadership will empower our customers, partners, and independent software vendors (ISVs) to consistently deliver high-quality user experiences with the Salesforce Lightning Design System.

At Salesforce, our goal is to create products that people love. As a Director on the UX Foundations Engineering team, you will mentor and guide a talented group committed to scaling design systems and fostering strong user relationships. Your skills and inspiration will drive your team to create amazing experiences and transform business practices.

Key Responsibilities:

* Leadership and Strategy: Lead the UX Foundations Engineering team, helping to define the vision, strategy, and goals to advance our design system.
* Tool Development Oversight: Guide the team in designing, developing, and maintaining tools that promote design system best practices and prevent anti-patterns.
* Change Management: Strategize and implement solutions to facilitate smooth transitions and updates within our design system, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum efficiency.
* Code Readiness: Oversee the development of tools to assess and enhance the readiness of code, providing valuable insights and recommendations.
* Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster collaboration with UX designers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure tools meet their needs effectively.
* Best Practices Advocacy: Champion the adoption of industry-standard best practices within our design systems and development processes.
* Continuous Improvement: Keep abreast of the latest trends and advancements in UX design and tooling, integrating these into our tools and processes.
* Support and Training: Ensure the team provides training and support to users of the tools, maximizing their value and efficiency.

Your Impact

* Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many multi-functional teams, architects, product owners and engineers
* Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
* Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens
* Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams
* Partner with PO to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk
* Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
* Empowering the delivery team to self coordinate
* Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
* Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
* Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond
* Vocally advocating for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions
* Participating in architecture discussions and planning
* Participating in multi-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
* Maintaining and encouraging our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals
* Occasionally chipping in to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical skill sharp

Minimum Requirements

* A related technical degree required
* 3 + years of proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects
* Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
* Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
* Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that’s been released for public consumption
* Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading engineers
* Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
* Experience with Agile development methodologies. Scrum Master experience required
* Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Preferred Requirements

* Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform features, capabilities, and best use of it
* Able to articulate the importance and value of Governance to Business and IT executives
* A good understanding of enterprise architecture principles is strongly preferred
* Ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts
* Serve as a trusted advisor, with a deep curiosity to understand your customers, their motivations and needs, and how to approach ensuring their success
* Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
* Experience using assistive technologies (such as JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver).

We are looking for a visionary leader who can guide our UX Tooling Engineering team to new levels of success. If you are passionate about UX design, tooling, and leadership, we invite you to join us and make a significant impact at Salesforce.

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