Director Salesforce technology | Global | Remote
Sistema.bio, we are creating value from waste.
Sistema.bio believes that the transition to renewable energy and organic farming is crucial to protect our planet, and maintain a sustainable world for our generation and those to come. We advocate for a world in which waste is a resource, and farmers are empowered and productive.
We are a leading global social enterprise operating in Latin America, India, and Africa. We provide farmers with financing to access waste-to-energy technology that is easy to install and maintain, includes great after-sales service and a 10 years warranty.
We manufacture, sell, install and finance our patented biodigester systems for small and medium scale farmers to convert their waste into economic, health and environmental benefits. Our products are unique for their simplicity to use, durability and quality. With a staff of currently about 500 people, we have reached over 30,000 farms and over 180,000 people in 30 countries with clean energy & fertilizer and are on the pathway to reduce 1% of global GHG emissions!
By the end of 2025, our goal is to have installed biodigesters for a million people with our technology where they lack access to clean, renewable, and cost-effective energy.
Sistema.bio is the 2019 Ashden Clean cooking Awards winner, Schwab World Economic Forum Fellow, United Nations SDG 7 leader. Sistema.bio is a certificated BCorp and has been recognized by Buckminster Fuller Institute, Ashoka, Endeavor and many other leading awards, organizations and partners.
You can be a part of this impact story!
Your mission as the Director, Salesforce Technology at Sistema.bio
The director, salesforce technology - reports directly to the CEO and is part of the Executive team in a truly global role. This person has to lead the existing global technology team in significant growth for the next four years, in support of our Sales & Operations teams in Africa, South America, and India.
While the initial focus will be on Salesforce technologies ( Sistema.bio primary tool) to support our growing global business, Sistema.bio also needs to deploy a Data warehouse to allow the business to make data-driven decisions. Additionally, the salesforce technology director will also research and deploy emerging technologies as Sistema.bio reaches its goal of one million biodigesters in the field.
You’ll be in charge of:
- Advancing Sistema.bio short-term and long-term business goals and building a compelling strategy for the technology team.
- Coaching and developing the technology teams, distributed globally and remotely.
- Operating as the Subject Matter Expert of the existing Salesforce instance, and related integrations and technologies.
- Leading the planning, design, implementation, testing, and release of Salesforce configuration and customization components within Salesforce and its components.
- Getting hands-on daily with a small and nimble team to design and implement scalable solutions that leverage Salesforce best practices.
- Being the bridge between external vendors, internal Salesforce development team, and business stakeholders to design and develop strong relationships with user groups to support user adoption, ensure proper use of Salesforce and productive growth and change around the application and corresponding business processes.
- Holding the Salesforce development team accountable for delivery of quality code and timely completion of development tasks.
- Reviewing and debugging existing Salesforce applications and resolving support requests for existing Salesforce instances.
- Managing all aspects of IT/technology operations in addition to Salesforce.
More about YOU
Qualifications
- 4-year college degree in Computer Science, or other relevant field, or a combination of relevant education and experience
- 7+ years of managing Salesforce development projects
- 2+ years of managing internal and external resources
- 5+ years of Salesforce Architect or relevant experience preferred
- Active Salesforce certifications preferred
Your profile and experience
- Experience leading a team of Salesforce developers and administrators in both declarative and complex custom development modules leveraging Apex and Lightning Components.
- Ability to lead code reviews to ensure best practice development processes.
- You are a global profile or have worked globally: you have experience and understanding of working with diverse cultures.
- Your verbal and written communication skills are an asset: you possess the ability to communicate to stakeholders in the organization, and tell a story to Executives and field sales operations to advance technology planning and initiatives.
- Keen understanding of Salesforce technologies that enable sales processes – Sales Enablement, CPQ, Marketing Automation, and data hygiene tools.
- Knowledge of core Salesforce technologies, as well as custom development such as Apex controllers, Asynchronous Apex, Triggers, Visualforce pages, Lightning components, and Javascript libraries.
- Knowledge and experience with application design principles and patterns in order to provide short-term and long-term solutions.
- Solid understanding of OOP concepts.
- Strong working knowledge of Agile scrum methodologies.
- Strong requirements gathering skills.
- If you can speak more than one language it's a plus, if it's one of the languages of our markets, a big plus!
What it is like to work at Sistema.bio
- Global company: At Sistema.bio, you will get exposure to working with 3 continents and diverse cultures and people, supporting an international career for you.
- Passion and purpose: Working at Sistema.bio, you will work with a very passionate team that believes strongly in working for the social and environmental impact they want to see.
- A growing team with growing opportunities: Sistema.bio is on its way to double in size in the coming years. This growth will open new roles, new countries and a world of new opportunities! We have a roll-up-your-sleeves culture where we offer new opportunities for our team members’ careers and aspirations based on their skills, interests and aspirations.
- Learning about agroecology and small and medium-scale farmers: We will make sure that regardless of your background, you get to spend time in the field with farmers and genuinely learn about farming and agroecology in general and its importance.
- Work-life balance: At Sistema.bio, we know you’re at your best when you’re rested and healthy. We therefore give you generous holidays options, parental leave, we pay for your health protection and give you options to work remotely when needed and possible.
- Gender Equality: Sistema.bio is committed to gender equality in the workplace. Thanks to our Gender policies and efforts women represent 57% of the Global team for example, and 27% of our overall workforce. We have flexible hours and expressing spaces for lactating mothers.
- A team of Do’er: we are not a team of talkers, we are a team of doers. you will get a chance to get your hands dirty and learn on the ground up, while working on your problem solving and creativity skills. Your ideas and execution matter.
Location, travel and start date
- This position is remote, knowing that many of the Executive team and the Salesforce development team are based in the Mexico time zone.
- This position will require occasional travel to Mexico for Leadership team meetings, along with occasional travel to field operations in Nairobi (Kenya) and Pune (India).
If you still need to see we solve humanity's most important problems
- Here is our Youtube channel to get inspired!
- Science warns against the need to fight climate change > Sistema.bio is recognised as an important player in the fight against climate change
- Culture and values - See more about our values here: https://sistema.bio/opportunities/