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Full-time CAIO, Salesforce

FULL-TIME CAIO JOB · SAAS SECTOR · LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM

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Full-time CAIO at Salesforce, London
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Full-time CAIO at Salesforce, based in London. Full posting below, with the day rate stated or estimated with its basis.

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What the posting asks · quoted from the listing

  • YearsReference Architecture & Technical GTM for AI Build reference architectures and GTM narratives for new AI/agentic offerings ahead of launch Package proof points and playbooks — id…
  • Must-have10-15+ years in AI/ML, applied data science, or technical consulting, with recent deep focus on LLMs and agentic systems
  • Must-haveDemonstrated track record of taking AI tools into production — ideally: built an AI product or company, and can show references for the business impact delivered to customers
  • Must-haveGood tech depth on at least one Salesforce cloud and core/platform, and a good understanding of major features and capabilities of Salesforce offering
  • Must-haveStrong grasp of what makes production AI trustworthy: transparency, observability, guardrails, evaluation — able to speak to this with engineering and business audiences alike
  • Must-haveDemonstrated C-level advisory experience, translating AI potential into business-process outcomes
  • Must-haveFluent English required; additional EMEA languages a plus
  • Must-haveDegree or equivalent experience

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Sales

Job Details

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.

Our most senior technical voice on AI and agentic strategy in EMEA — someone who's actually shipped an AI product into production, not just prototyped one, and knows how to turn LLM/agentic capability into measurable business value customers can trust. Solid on at least one Salesforce cloud, but the real bar is production trust, transparency, and business-process ROI — not Salesforce platform depth or fine-tuning mechanics.

The Field CAIO need to be credible enough to help a CDAIO shape their AI strategy and vision for enterprise AI at scale — and then translate that vision into the role Salesforce plays within it, connecting enterprise-wide AI ambition to what's actually buildable and trustworthy on our platform.

Your Impact

  • AI & Agentic Thought Leadership

The field's go-to authority on LLMs and agentic implementations — not the hyperparameters or fine-tuning mechanics, but how to put the technology to real, measurable work based on the Salesforce Platform.

Sales-driven, C-level presence: CAIOs, CTOs, and business leaders treat you as the peer who can turn "we should use AI" into a funded, working plan

Present at events, analyst briefings, and customer boards; publish points of view on what actually works in production AI versus what's hype

  • From Idea to Production — Business Value & Trust
  • Own the hardest part of the AI story: getting tools out of the demo and into production, with the trust and transparency for a business to depend on them
  • Translate AI capability into concrete business process improvement — help customers frame the problem, size the value, and pick the right first use case

Bring hands-on architectural credibility on agentic patterns (orchestration, tool use, guardrails, observability) so customers trust what an agent will and won't do

Long-term trusted advisor to strategic accounts on their AI roadmap, beyond any single deal

  • Reference Architecture & Technical GTM for AI
  • Build reference architectures and GTM narratives for new AI/agentic offerings ahead of launch
  • Package proof points and playbooks — ideally drawn from your own track record of shipping AI products — that the wider architect community can reuse
  • Co-own architecture patterns with AI ecosystem partners (hyperscalers, model providers, agent-framework vendors) to accelerate joint solutioning
  • Qualifications
  • 10-15+ years in AI/ML, applied data science, or technical consulting, with recent deep focus on LLMs and agentic systems

Demonstrated track record of taking AI tools into production — ideally: built an AI product or company, and can show references for the business impact delivered to customers

Good tech depth on at least one Salesforce cloud and core/platform, and a good understanding of major features and capabilities of Salesforce offering

Strong grasp of what makes production AI trustworthy: transparency, observability, guardrails, evaluation — able to speak to this with engineering and business audiences alike

Demonstrated C-level advisory experience, translating AI potential into business-process outcomes

Fluent English required; additional EMEA languages a plus

Degree or equivalent experience

Technical Skill Set

  • AI & Agentic: LLMs, RAG, vector stores, agent orchestration, MCP/A2A interoperability, evaluation/observability frameworks
  • Applied AI-to-Value: Use-case framing, business process redesign, ROI measurement for AI initiatives
  • Salesforce Platform: Solid working knowledge of Agentforce and at least one cloud (Data 360, Sales, Service, or Industry Clouds)
  • Data Foundations: Enough data-platform fluency (cloud DWH/DL) to know when data quality is the real blocker to AI value
  • Production & Trust: Guardrails, governance, monitoring, and transparency patterns for deployed AI systems
  • Key Qualities
  • Builder — has shipped an AI product, not just prototyped one
  • Pragmatist — cares about measurable business value over technical novelty
  • Trust Broker — makes customers comfortable putting AI into production
  • Storyteller — moves a room from "interesting demo" to "let's fund this"
  • Sales Instinct — genuinely enthusiastic, commercially driven
  • 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.

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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.

We are a recognised Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the interview scheme as part of the application process. If you would like to apply under the scheme, please click the link to the Accommodations Request Form above and scroll to the UK Disability Confident Scheme section within the form.

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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.

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