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Salesforce

Builds cloud software for customer relationships

Senior Salesforce Project Manager

Full-Time
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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India+3 moreMore locations: Hyderabad, Telangana, India | Pune, Maharashtra, India | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
HybridOffice-based with flexible working arrangements; international or domestic travel may be required as needed.
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About the job

Requirements
  • 15+ years of total experience in the IT consulting or services industry, including 8+ years of dedicated experience leading complex, enterprise-scale Salesforce implementations.
  • Experience managing multi-cloud, highly integrated Salesforce transformations across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and/or specialized Industry Clouds.
  • Advanced practical proficiency with AI-augmented productivity suites and large language models, such as Gemini and NotebookLM, plus an actionable vision for applying an Agentic Delivery approach to project tracking, documentation, and risk forecasting.
  • Authoritative understanding of Salesforce ecosystem architecture and the delivery lifecycle, including collaboration with Enterprise Architects and Technical Leads to map technical scope to business outcomes; hands-on configuration is not required.
  • Ability to communicate clearly, confidently, and assertively with C-suite executives, global sponsors, and enterprise steering committees.
  • At least two Salesforce Core Consultant Certifications or higher-tier equivalents, including Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, and/or Experience Cloud Consultant.
  • At least one advanced Project or Scaled Agile Management Certification, such as PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Agilist, PRINCE2 Practitioner, Senior Scrum Master, Certified ScrumMaster, or Professional Scrum Master II.
  • Expert command of enterprise project management, portfolio tracking, and collaboration platforms including JIRA, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Smartsheet, and Google Workspace.
  • Willingness and flexibility to travel internationally or domestically as needed.
Responsibilities
  • Champion and strategically scale the adoption of authorized AI technologies and prompt engineering across delivery teams.
  • Use advanced AI tools, developer assistants such as Cursor and Claude, and agentic evaluation frameworks to accelerate implementations, eliminate operational friction, and reduce project delivery timelines.
  • Collaborate with customers to develop evaluation frameworks that measure AI performance for specific use cases.
  • Plan, direct, and oversee the complete enterprise Salesforce delivery lifecycle.
  • Own program-level financial performance, including macro-scope, multi-track timelines, systemic risks, cross-project dependencies, and Sold-versus-Delivered margins.
  • Champion and institutionalize Agile delivery architectures using Scrum, Lean, and SAFe frameworks.
  • Drive multi-track sprint execution, backlog prioritization, predictive flow metrics, and high-performing self-organizing cross-functional global delivery squads.
  • Architect and govern integrated portfolio plans and long-term delivery roadmaps.
  • Provide transparent, data-driven progress reporting, proactive macro-risk visibility, and complex technical dependency management across the global engagement lifecycle.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and drive alignment through executive communication, steering committees, and proactive escalation management.
  • Design and enforce delivery governance, engineering standards, and quality benchmarks, including quality checkpoints and continuous improvement.
  • Optimize multi-shore resource demand planning, manage program budgets, forecasts, and financial reconciliation, and develop mitigation strategies for structural delivery risks.
  • Maintain timezone flexibility to support synchronization, governance, and executive support across AMER, EMEA, and APAC delivery regions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience delivering localized or global Salesforce transformations in highly regulated sectors, including Healthcare and Life Sciences, Financial Services, or Consumer Goods/Retail Cloud.
  • Functional awareness of data streaming and mid-tier enterprise connectivity strategies, including MuleSoft, Salesforce Data Cloud, and real-time event-driven architectures.
  • Salesforce Agentforce Specialist or Legend certifications and experience managing and delivering Agentforce-enabled autonomous AI agent workstreams.

About the company

Salesforce sells cloud software that helps businesses manage sales leads, customer service, marketing, and online commerce from shared customer records. Its flagship Sales Cloud tracks accounts and deals, while Service Cloud organizes support cases and Agentforce builds AI assistants that act on company data. Teams access these tools through a browser and connect outside apps and data sources, with Slack for work messages and Tableau for visual analysis. Salesforce earns most of its revenue from software subscriptions and support, with professional services for implementation and training. Marc Benioff co-founded Salesforce in 1999, and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

1999

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  • AI brings paying demand: Salesforce reported nearly $3.9 billion in Agentforce and Data 360 recurring revenue pace in August 2026.
  • Giving back gets paid time: Salesforce employees receive seven paid volunteer days each year.
  • Subscriptions provide a durable base: Salesforce earned $10.8 billion from subscriptions and support in the July 2026 quarter.

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  • Expansion brought debt: Salesforce borrowed $6 billion in November 2025 to help finance the Informatica acquisition.
  • Reliability failed during Dreamforce: a September 2026 Salesforce outage disrupted affected Hyperforce environments for seven hours and 36 minutes.

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  • Everyone publishes a plan: Salesforce employees write annual goals visible to colleagues through its internal V2MOM system.
  • Learning includes real practice: Salesforce's free Trailhead courses award badges after quizzes and hands-on exercises in practice accounts.

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