Lead / Senior Data Modeler

We are looking for a Lead or Senior Data Modeler to serve as a trusted design authority - partnering daily with product managers, UX designers, architects, and software engineers (who develop the data models) - to ensure every product Salesforce ships is backed by a well-architected, thoughtful data model. With Agentforce and AI woven into how we work, you will use AI tools every day to accelerate design and data model content creation - and help us continuously improve those AI capabilities. Our US team collaborates closely with colleagues in India, which requires availability for some morning and evening overlap hours. What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Lead collaborative data model design sessions with product managers, UX designers, architects, and engineers - sketching logical entity-relationship models, mapping them into the existing Salesforce data models, surfacing design risks, and driving designs to approval as peer advisors on each team. You are coaching and mentoring these partners throughout every one of these interactions.
• Own data model design quality across your assigned Salesforce Clouds and represent those designs to both internal and external stakeholders, making and defending the design decisions that best balance stability, architecture, user experience, performance, speed to market, software cost of ownership, and more.
• Leverage AI tools daily to accelerate data model discovery, design, validation, and documentation. Actively contribute to improving Salesforce's AI data modeling capabilities to raise the bar for the whole team and the teams we partner with.
• Lead and contribute to data model documentation and collateral, including entity-relationship diagrams and reference models, to enhance understanding and adoption of the Salesforce data model across the Salesforce ecosystem.

• You have 10+ years of experience in relational (OLTP) data model design - with deep understanding of relational database principles and a track record of leading design conversations and driving designs to approval across both relational and analytical systems, spanning multiple industries.
• You communicate technical and functional concepts clearly to diverse audiences - engineers, architects, product managers, and business stakeholders - and you are equally comfortable in a whiteboard session and a leadership review.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles, can manage multiple products concurrently with minimal specifications, and know how to build consensus across teams with competing priorities.
• You are genuinely enthusiastic about using AI tools to do your job better and are motivated to help build AI-assisted data modeling into the fabric of how a world-class team operates.
• A related technical degree required.

Even Better If

• You have experience across a broad range of business domains (sales, service, field service, marketing, commerce) and industries (financial services, health, manufacturing, communications, retail, public sector, and others).
• You have knowledge of Salesforce platform features and capabilities - including both the core CRM platform and Data 360 - or of modern data stack technologies such as columnar, graph, vector, streaming databases, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, or similar.
• You have a good understanding of enterprise architecture principles and experience serving as a trusted design advisor to product and engineering teams.
• You have strong, hands-on knowledge of SQL (or Salesforce SOQL) including relational database performance tuning, and working knowledge of how physical database design decisions affect query performance.

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, $148,500 -

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