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Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
Product Vision & Mission
Customer Health Platform is Salesforce's answer to one of the most persistent enterprise challenges: customers managing multiple orgs lack a unified, continuous view of their security posture, technical health, and customization complexity. This creates barriers to adoption, slows Agentforce readiness, and at times leads to attrition.
Mission
Give every Salesforce customer a single, authoritative view of their implementation health posture across all orgs — enabling them to:
- Shift from reactive to proactive health management
- Conduct on-demand health assessments with a prioritized list of recommendations
- Receive intelligent, agentic guidance to close gaps fast
- Accelerate their path to Agentforce readiness
Key Responsibilities
- Own product strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery for across multiple scrum teams and an AI research team
- Define and evangelize the product vision — translating it into user stories, PRDs, and sprint-ready requirements — working daily with engineering, design, and AI research partners
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive roadmap, balancing customer requirements, market opportunities, and technical feasibility.
- Identify and address key customer pain points ensuring the product delivers measurable value.
- Translate high-level business requirements into detailed product specifications and actionable deliverables. Collaborate with engineering and UX teams to build scalable, intuitive, and high-impact solutions.
- Lead cross-functional teams through the product development lifecycle, from concept to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of milestones.
- Engage directly with customers, partners, and stakeholders to deeply understand pain points and translate them into actionable product requirements.
- Drive prioritization and trade-offs across user experience, performance, and technical feasibility.
- Leverage data-driven insights to iterate and improve product offerings continuously.
- Partner with sales, marketing, and enablement teams to ensure successful product launches and adoption. Work closely with them to define go-to-market strategies, positioning, and messaging for the product capabilities.
- Stay ahead of industry trends in AI, collaboration, automation, and enterprise service management to drive innovation.
- Serve as the voice of the customer, gathering and analyzing feedback from users, developers, and stakeholders to inform product decisions.
- Regularly present product updates, strategies, and results to executive team ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
What Makes This Role Exciting
- You'll be the founding PM for this product — a net-new product category that redefines how enterprises manage Salesforce health at scale
- You'll own flagship Agentforce AI product launches at TDX and Dreamforce
- You'll have real GTM impact — building partner ecosystems, public sector presence, and conference thought leadership
Required Qualifications
- 5–10 years of experience, with 5+ years in product management at a software or SaaS company
- Bachelor's in CS or technical field; MBA or Master's a plus
- Deep technical fluency across search systems, information retrieval, large language models, and AI/ML infrastructure — able to engage deeply with engineering teams and communicate clearly to executive audiences
- Experience managing AI model or vendor strategy — you've evaluated, selected, and deployed LLMs or AI services in production and understand the tradeoffs between quality, cost, latency, and vendor risk
- A quality-first mindset — you've built evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing systems for AI/ML outputs and have a strong sense of what great looks like at scale
- Proven track record of delivering successful product experiences to customers at enterprise scale
- Strong cross-functional leadership — you thrive in complex organizations and can align product, engineering, design, security, legal, and go-to-market stakeholders around a shared vision
- Strategic thinking paired with disciplined execution — you can articulate a compelling long-term vision and translate it into a clear near-term roadmap
- Deep customer empathy — you understand how people search for and consume information at work, and you're driven to make that experience as effortless as possible
- Resilience in a fast-moving environment — the AI landscape is evolving rapidly, and you bring clarity and focus rather than anxiety to that pace of change
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of Salesforce platform — performance architecture, sandboxes, multi-tenant SaaS, metadata model
- Familiarity with Agentforce, LLMs, or AI-driven product features — especially agentic workflows and guided remediation
- Experience with technical health, developer tooling, or platform observability products
- Experience with monetization strategy, including metered billing or usage-based pricing models
- Track record of building partner ecosystems and SI relationships
- Experience presenting at industry conferences or customer advisory boards
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
Accommodations
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
Posting Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.
The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
Product Vision & Mission
Customer Health Platform is Salesforce's answer to one of the most persistent enterprise challenges: customers managing multiple orgs lack a unified, continuous view of their security posture, technical health, and customization complexity. This creates barriers to adoption, slows Agentforce readiness, and at times leads to attrition.
Mission
Give every Salesforce customer a single, authoritative view of their implementation health posture across all orgs — enabling them to:
- Shift from reactive to proactive health management
- Conduct on-demand health assessments with a prioritized list of recommendations
- Receive intelligent, agentic guidance to close gaps fast
- Accelerate their path to Agentforce readiness
Key Responsibilities
- Own product strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery for across multiple scrum teams and an AI research team
- Define and evangelize the product vision — translating it into user stories, PRDs, and sprint-ready requirements — working daily with engineering, design, and AI research partners
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive roadmap, balancing customer requirements, market opportunities, and technical feasibility.
- Identify and address key customer pain points ensuring the product delivers measurable value.
- Translate high-level business requirements into detailed product specifications and actionable deliverables. Collaborate with engineering and UX teams to build scalable, intuitive, and high-impact solutions.
- Lead cross-functional teams through the product development lifecycle, from concept to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of milestones.
- Engage directly with customers, partners, and stakeholders to deeply understand pain points and translate them into actionable product requirements.
- Drive prioritization and trade-offs across user experience, performance, and technical feasibility.
- Leverage data-driven insights to iterate and improve product offerings continuously.
- Partner with sales, marketing, and enablement teams to ensure successful product launches and adoption. Work closely with them to define go-to-market strategies, positioning, and messaging for the product capabilities.
- Stay ahead of industry trends in AI, collaboration, automation, and enterprise service management to drive innovation.
- Serve as the voice of the customer, gathering and analyzing feedback from users, developers, and stakeholders to inform product decisions.
- Regularly present product updates, strategies, and results to executive team ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
What Makes This Role Exciting
- You'll be the founding PM for this product — a net-new product category that redefines how enterprises manage Salesforce health at scale
- You'll own flagship Agentforce AI product launches at TDX and Dreamforce
- You'll have real GTM impact — building partner ecosystems, public sector presence, and conference thought leadership
Required Qualifications
- 5–10 years of experience, with 5+ years in product management at a software or SaaS company
- Bachelor's in CS or technical field; MBA or Master's a plus
- Deep technical fluency across search systems, information retrieval, large language models, and AI/ML infrastructure — able to engage deeply with engineering teams and communicate clearly to executive audiences
- Experience managing AI model or vendor strategy — you've evaluated, selected, and deployed LLMs or AI services in production and understand the tradeoffs between quality, cost, latency, and vendor risk
- A quality-first mindset — you've built evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing systems for AI/ML outputs and have a strong sense of what great looks like at scale
- Proven track record of delivering successful product experiences to customers at enterprise scale
- Strong cross-functional leadership — you thrive in complex organizations and can align product, engineering, design, security, legal, and go-to-market stakeholders around a shared vision
- Strategic thinking paired with disciplined execution — you can articulate a compelling long-term vision and translate it into a clear near-term roadmap
- Deep customer empathy — you understand how people search for and consume information at work, and you're driven to make that experience as effortless as possible
- Resilience in a fast-moving environment — the AI landscape is evolving rapidly, and you bring clarity and focus rather than anxiety to that pace of change
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of Salesforce platform — performance architecture, sandboxes, multi-tenant SaaS, metadata model
- Familiarity with Agentforce, LLMs, or AI-driven product features — especially agentic workflows and guided remediation
- Experience with technical health, developer tooling, or platform observability products
- Experience with monetization strategy, including metered billing or usage-based pricing models
- Track record of building partner ecosystems and SI relationships
- Experience presenting at industry conferences or customer advisory boards
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
Accommodations
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
Posting Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.
The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
Product Lead Job Roles in California
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Which companies sponsor visas for product leads in California?
Large technology companies account for the majority of product lead sponsorship in California. Google, Apple, Meta, Salesforce, Airbnb, Adobe, Intuit, and Snap have consistent H-1B filing histories for product roles. Enterprise software and fintech companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley also sponsor regularly. Smaller startups do sponsor, but do so less predictably, often depending on funding stage and legal resources.
Which visa types are most common for product lead roles in California?
The H-1B is the most common visa for product lead roles in California. Product lead positions generally qualify as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in a related field such as computer science, engineering, or business. Candidates already holding L-1B intracompany transferee status or O-1 visas for extraordinary ability are also placed in product lead roles at California companies, though H-1B remains the dominant pathway.
Which cities in California have the most product lead sponsorship jobs?
San Francisco and the broader Silicon Valley corridor, including San Jose, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale, have the highest concentration of product lead sponsorship jobs in California. Los Angeles has grown significantly, particularly in consumer tech, entertainment technology, and e-commerce. San Diego sees demand in biotech and defense tech product roles. Remote-friendly policies at some California employers have also expanded access beyond these core hubs.
How to find product lead visa sponsorship jobs in California?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter by state and role to surface product lead positions in California where employers are actively open to visa sponsorship. Because product lead titles vary across companies, searching with Migrate Mate helps consolidate listings that might otherwise be scattered. Reviewing employer H-1B filing histories alongside active job listings gives you the clearest picture of which California companies are realistic targets.
Are there state-specific considerations for product lead visa sponsorship in California?
California's prevailing wage requirements under Department of Labor rules apply to H-1B filings, and wage levels in California, particularly in the Bay Area, tend to be among the highest in the country for product roles. This means employers must offer competitive compensation to file an H-1B here. California also has a dense university pipeline from UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UCLA that employers draw from, which increases competition for sponsored roles.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored product lead jobs in California?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.