Senior Director of Engineering for Application Architecture and Systems

Salesforce · San Francisco, California · $218,400 - $365,200 annually We are looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead the Application Architecture and Systems pillar for Slack's clients. You will own the shared technical foundations of Slack's clients, including product infrastructure, shared client infrastructure, frameworks, accessibility, APIs, and components on web, desktop, and mobile. Responsibilities: Lead the engineering organization responsible for Slack's product infrastructure Set the technical strategy and roadmap for Slack's client infrastructure Establish high standards for performance, reliability, quality, and craft in the team's work and culture Evolve development for the agentic era Own shared platforms, including frameworks, components, design-system foundations, and internal client APIs Champion accessibility Partner across the company to align priorities and resolve dependencies Build a connected, global team Up-level team performance Requirements: Significant experience leading product infrastructure engineering at a company with a complex, large-scale client application Experience in client infrastructure, web and mobile Track record leading large engineering organizations, including managing managers and coaching senior leaders Ability to set technical strategy and work with Product and Design to turn it into a roadmap Related technical degree Nice to Have: Experience leading engineering teams through the shift to AI-assisted and agentic development Experience leading distributed teams through organizational change Experience with accessibility Experience with Electron native desktop applications Experience building or scaling design systems