Director/Sr. Director Expert Agent Builder, Forward Deployed Engineering
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$197k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term strategy for agentic AI deployments across industries.
- Lead a high-performing Agent Builder expert team delivering agentic solutions directly with customers.
- Establish best practices and reference architectures for Model Context Protocol, inter-agent communication, and AI orchestration in multi-agent systems.
- Standardize the Agentic Development Life Cycle across engagements and oversee project delivery.
- Ensure deployed agents meet customer needs and scale robustly in enterprise production environments.
- Evangelize Salesforce’s agentic architecture vision with internal teams, strategic customers, industry partners, and ecosystem developers.
- Build an operational model for enterprise-ready, production-grade agentic systems.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Sales, security, and legal teams to shape strategy, execution, governance, and responsible AI practices.
- Oversee data privacy and compliance policies for agentic AI deployments.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade applications or enterprise AI systems.
- 5+ years of experience in leadership roles overseeing technical teams.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including the ability to influence executive stakeholders on complex technical roadmaps.
- Expertise in AI implementations involving RAG, vector databases, search indexes, and knowledge bases for grounding Agentforce solutions with enterprise data.
- Expert-level knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and asynchronous processing.
- Current, comprehensive knowledge of foundational and frontier LLMs, their capabilities, use cases, and enterprise AI tooling ecosystems.
- Deep understanding of enterprise AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, data-driven decisioning, and autonomous action design.
- Ability to think strategically while remaining technically credible with Product, Engineering, and Architecture teams.
- Ability to travel 30% of the time to customer sites as needed.
- Preferred: experience architecting data or integration solutions using MuleSoft, Einstein GenAI Agentforce, or a similar platform.
- Preferred: industry thought leadership in AI and enterprise integrations.
- Preferred: experience leading multidisciplinary teams in fast-scaling or global enterprise environments.
- Preferred: a track record of production-ready deployments in secure, regulated enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role requires approximately 30% travel to customer sites.
- The stated base salary range is $196,700–$299,390 annually; location-specific ranges apply in California, New York, and select metropolitan areas.
- The compensation range excludes bonuses, sales incentives, equity, and benefits.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com