Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Salesforce is hiring a RVP Forward Deployed Engineering, Salesforce / Portfolio Leader to directly manage and grow a team of technical AI specialists deploying Agentforce solutions inside complex customer environments. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can drive engineering excellence while operating at the executive level. You will lead a blended delivery team made up of Forward Deployed Engineers (Technical Builders who design, build, and deploy AI Agents directly in customer environments) and Deployment Strategists (Strategic Builders who shape AI strategy, define use cases, and drive adoption). Together, these teams co-build and deliver agentic AI solutions on a single large enterprise account or across multiple engagements simultaneously. You will set engineering standards, unblock complex customer deployments, and scale the talent shipping production AI today.

This role requires production leadership with a builder mindset and involves owning capacity planning, talent acquisition, and staffing to ensure your squads have the horsepower to deploy Agentforce at enterprise scale. You will foster an inclusive, high-energy, and psychologically safe engineering culture where builders iterate fast and continuously improve. You will partner directly with Product and Engineering organizations to turn field insights into features on the Agentforce roadmap.

You will recruit, mentor, and develop technical and strategic builders, drive technical excellence, maintain operational velocity, and serve as the ultimate technical authority for your portfolio. You will unblock complex data readiness, tool integration, and multi-agent orchestration challenges, ensuring flawless Agentforce activation, rollout, and sustained production value. You will also operationally run your account portfolio with engineering rigor and partner closely with Services, Account Success, and Product teams to accelerate customer adoption from pilot to production.

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, combining AI, data, and CRM to empower companies across industries. We are committed to innovation, inclusion, and driving business as a platform for positive change. Join us to shape the future of AI and redefine what’s possible.

Experience
5+ years of direct people management or high-impact technical leadership steering cross-functional engineering or technical teams. Proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and scaling technical talent. Deep architectural understanding of AI, LLMs, and the Salesforce ecosystem. Hands-on experience with enterprise software implementation, data modeling, API integration, and AI deployments. Direct experience architecting or deploying Salesforce Data Cloud and the Agentforce platform. Strong background navigating high-touch customer strategies at a global level with exceptional executive-level communication and influence skills.

About you
You have a builder leadership mindset with exceptional problem-solving instincts, resourcefulness, and a "get-things-done" attitude. You thrive at the technical helm where code is actively shipped. You are able to hold your own in executive conversations with customer CTOs and enterprise architects. You foster an inclusive, high-energy engineering culture and drive continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Qualifications
Relevant Salesforce certifications such as Advanced Admin, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, Sales Cloud, or Agentforce Specialist are desirable but not mandatory. Hands-on experience building multi-agent systems, prompt engineering pipelines, or deterministic AI guardrails is a plus. Familiarity with cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery and enterprise data pipelines is advantageous.