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Salesforce Engineering Manager, Commercial Systems
This engineering management role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Salesforce to build a career with Canonical and drive the business's success. If you enjoy working on complex engineering challenges, you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.
The Commercial Systems unit is conceived as six engineering teams working closely with other Canonical engineering and business teams. One of the teams is responsible for the Salesforce instance, which is crucial to our sales and business operations. This team configures Salesforce and implements business processes that facilitate efficient operations. This requires deep experience with the Salesforce platform, understanding assignments from engineering and business perspectives, building solid relationships with many internal stakeholders, and striving for improvements. Apply here if you would like to lead this team.
We are looking for an experienced engineering manager with deep Salesforce experience, passion for engineering excellence, and strong communication skills to tirelessly seek improvements, sharpen team skills, provide subject matter expertise, ensure a great user experience, and work with us to define the future of open source.
We expect you to have
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
Senior-level experience as a software developer on Salesforce.
Experience integrating Salesforce with other systems.
Experience as a hands-on engineering manager or a team lead.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
Ability to collaborate remotely with diverse team members and stakeholders and remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.
Nice to have
Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python.
Experience in a business role such as sales, finance, or operations.
We offer
Learning and development opportunities and personal budget
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