Description
We are seeking an Incubation Strategist who will bridge between our customers' challenges, cutting-edge AI research topics, and product roadmap to produce future vision narratives for our customers. This role will work closely with our research managers to understand the future capabilities; our product managers, to find the right gaps in our product where innovation can push it forward; and directly with our customers to inspire and partner with them to bring the collective vision to life. This role requires a strong background in user experience design, narrative creation, and an affinity to emerging technologies.
Your Impact/Responsibilities:
Human-Centered Design: using a deep understanding of HCD methodologies and design thinking, you'll conduct discovery with our customers, as well as with our internal stakeholders to identify end-user needs and come up with innovative solutions.
Narrative & Storytelling: Create end-to-end narratives that bring to life a vision and a north-star that will be used to communicate the value and solution.
Creative Execution: Develop screens and visuals that tell the narrative using tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI-powered applications.
User Experience Design: Create storyboards, screens, and other design elements to convey the user experience while tying it to the user and business needs
Vision Demos and PoCs: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to bring demos and proof-of-concepts to life in the AI Research environment, as web, mobile, and future-ui applications/modalities
Customer-facing presentations: Meet with executive customers and internal stakeholders to deliver high-impact presentations that will convey the vision
Strategic Planning: Work across teams and disciplines to identify and align on research areas, product fit and strategic customers to best align with the incubation priorities
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience in fields related to design & user experience
- Impeccable eye for design and sense for storytelling
- Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
- High proficiency in design and presentation applications (Figma, Adobe Suite, Google Slides, Keynote, etc.)
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and in a fast-paced environment
Preferred:
- Experience with Agentforce and AI technologies.
- Good understanding of Salesforce products and Enterprise use cases
- Experience creating Salesforce applications and/or demos
- Curiosity to leverage AI-powered tools (Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, generative image/video/sound tools, etc.)
- Big plus for having front-end development and Vibe Coding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Big plus for having motion / animation skills (Aftereffects, Motion, etc.)
- Proven track record of delivering high impact visions
For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: 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.