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Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

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Salesforce is seeking a Capacity Planning Lead to support our customer’s ongoing growth. Capacity Planners scope, analyze and forecast the infrastructure demand that power our diverse set of products on a global scale. This role is on a team of capacity planning professionals who have experience with understanding systems infrastructure and best practice planning methods to support demand across multiple substrates.

This person will be required to work cross-functionally with a number of senior product owners as well as technical service teams across the organization. They should expect to interact with numerous data sources spread across disparate systems to produce a single version of truth for capacity demand for the products they are covering. As a result, the capacity planner should expect to work collaboratively with product owners to understand how their service architecturally functions, any product and design roadmaps, launch plans, sales and users forecasts, and any other variables that may impact future capacity demand.

The planner will be required to optimally take all of these inputs and partner with our data science and engineering teams to produce demand forecasts and automation tooling. In particular, an understanding of AWS, GCP and/or Azure infrastructure and architectural limits will be needed.

The role will also require building strong interpersonal relationships that will be the foundation of building trust and supporting the continued success of these products over time. This is a very high impact and visible role which will drive the foundation of Salesforce’s infrastructure strategy for years to come. Join a growing team!

Job Duties: 

- Capture and document architectural details about services and its supporting capacity

- Coordinate product and service teams so requirements are well understood

- Establish a consistent and repeatable cross-substrate migration plan

- Conduct scenario analysis based on service engineering roadmap to present effects of new services and shifts in workload on capacity.

- Present clear findings and recommendations to senior leadership regarding the forecast and business impacts

Required Skills/Experience:

- A related technical degree required

- 7+ years proven experience in operations, business intelligence, strategy, capacity planning, financial modeling, analytics or similar positions in a related field

- Strong analytical skills with experience consolidating sophisticated datasets across various unconnected systems and platforms to tell a clear story. 

- Fundamental knowledge of systems infrastructure and how services interact with the underlying hardware 

- Experience building statistical models 

- Strong interpersonal and executive presentation skills needed to partner effectively and convey long range plan

- Experience communicating data in a consistent and repeatable manager to various stakeholders

- Attention to detail with a focus on data quality

- Proficiency with SQL

- Experience in capacity management, planning, forecasting and scheduling is a plus

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $176,800 to $243,100.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $192,900 to $265,200.

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