Salesforce Platform Lead for Global Industrial Company

We are looking for a Salesforce Platform Lead for a global company. Their goal is to own the Salesforce platform as a product, improving release health, security, engineering standards, reusable patterns, and AI-assisted delivery. **General Information** Location: Remote. Talents from the USA or Canada. **French/English bilingual candidates are preferred** for the Montreal hub. Overlap: 6hs with East Coast time zone, USA Commitment: full-time Length: 12+ month **Required Skills:** * 610 years of Salesforce administration and development experience with platform ownership responsibilities * Expert-level Salesforce Flow experience * Solid hands-on experience with Apex and Lightning Web Components (LWC) * Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud and Service Cloud * Strong Salesforce release management experience * Experience with CI/CD for Salesforce environments * Strong knowledge of Salesforce security, sharing, permissions, and platform governance * Experience defining and enforcing coding and configuration standards through hands-on pull request reviews * Experience managing production Salesforce environments, including releases, sandbox strategy, backup, and recovery * Experience designing reusable Flow, LWC, and integration patterns for development teams * Experience leading or supporting P1 production incident response * Hands-on experience using AI coding copilots and agents in Salesforce development workflows * Experience with Salesforce metadata automation, test generation, org discovery, and AI-assisted pull request review * Ability to validate AI-generated code and automation before production deployment **Optional Skills (not mandatory):** * French and English bilingual proficiency * Salesforce Administrator certification * Salesforce Platform App Builder certification * Salesforce Platform Developer certification * Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience **Deliverables** * Own the Salesforce production environment, including releases, security, sandbox strategy, backup, and recovery * Define Salesforce coding and configuration standards and participate directly in pull request reviews * Build reusable reference patterns for Salesforce Flow, LWC, and integrations * Lead P1 incident response, including triage, remediation, and pairing with engineers on fixes * Drive a release cadence of two weeks or less in collaboration with QA and product stakeholders * Allocate and manage ongoing technical-debt capacity, targeting approximately 1030% of engineering capacity * Own the AI-assisted Salesforce development toolchain, including coding copilots, test generation, org discovery agents, and pull request pre-review * Measure developer effective capacity when using AI-assisted workflows and identify friction caused by manual delivery processes * Automate operational runbooks and release-note generation while maintaining human approval for production-risk decisions * Use AI copilots and agents daily to accelerate discovery, development, testing, and documentation while remaining accountable for production decisions