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Summary
This executive leadership role drives Go-To-Market (GTM) capabilities for Salesforce's Commerce Cloud and Point of Sale (POS) portfolio, from concept through successful delivery and market leadership. Reporting to the GM, this highly cross-functional position works closely with product leadership to guide sales strategy, field enablement, and strategic deal execution. The VP, GTM is responsible for ACV and pipeline growth, collaborating with sales, marketing, and other product teams. This role requires a leader who thrives in ambiguity, a fast-paced, startup-like environment, and excels at aligning executive stakeholders and global teams. Direct engagement with senior-level customer and partner stakeholders is critical to drive adoption and bring field insights back to the Product organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic GTM Leadership & Portfolio Ownership: Define and execute the end-to-end GTM lifecycle for the entire Commerce Cloud and POS portfolio. This includes market needs, product vision, strategy, roadmap communication, and field enablement. Serve as an executive sponsor for strategic customer acquisition, building and running scalable programs for customer engagement.
Domain Expertise & Market Enablement: Act as a domain expert for the Commerce and POS portfolio, recognized for deep understanding of its application to customer needs. Drive awareness of how Salesforce products deliver on strategic customer use cases. Ensure global GTM readiness for all customer use cases, identifying new strategic use cases and regularly evaluating pricing and packaging for optimization.
Customer & Partner Engagement: Lead strategic customer meetings, presenting product and roadmap to senior executives at the Salesforce Innovation Center and during pre-sales and post-sales implementations. Drive Product Advisory Councils globally and evangelize the roadmap with customers, partners, and employees. Leverage market analysis and competitive knowledge for messaging and enablement.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Insights: Work collaboratively across Product, Sales, and Service teams to amplify product value. Develop strong relationships with Product Managers to ensure information flow between the field and product teams. Synthesize customer problems and industry needs to inform product strategy and requirements. Represent the portfolio with key industry analysts.
Team Leadership & Development: Develop, nurture, recruit, and retain a high-performance team of GTM leaders, linking performance to outcomes and V2MOM goals.
Continuous Learning: Demonstrate a strong desire for continuous learning across new technologies, industry concepts, and Salesforce products.
Qualifications:
Equivalent of 15+ years of product management or similar experience, with 7+ years of hands-on GTM, SI, or service delivery experience in relevant domains.
Exceptional leadership capabilities, with proven ability to grow, develop, and retain top technical and product management talent.
Experience managing product management and/or development teams.
Deep domain knowledge of customer engagement processes in B2C and B2B commerce, POS, and Order Management.
Experience leading and working with international teams and driving strategic sales engagements.
Strong ownership, high energy, and passion for the job, with the ability to drive by influence, execute hands-on, or delegate effectively.
Bachelor's Degree in relevant field or equivalent experience in technical leadership roles.
Experience in marketing technology products and working in fast-paced startup environments.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong organizational and analytical abilities, and outstanding interpersonal skills.
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For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $281,000 to $4,915,000.
For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $281,000 to $449,600.
For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $307,100 to $491,500.
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