Salesforce Lead - USA
Storyblok
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Storyblok is open across the EMEA region, which includes South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>Storyblok is a headless CMS that enables marketers and developers to create with joy and publish with confidence. It empowers you to deliver structured and consistent content everywhere: websites, apps, AI search, and beyond.</p>
<p>Legendary brands like Virgin Media O2, Oatly, and TomTom use Storyblok to make a bigger, faster market impact.</p>
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<p><strong>WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU</strong></p>
<p>You will be joining a growing company where you can contribute to many “firsts”. Plus these benefits:</p>
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<li>Monthly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity). Home office equipment package right at the start (laptop, keyboard, monitor…)</li>
<li>Home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs …) or membership to a local co-working space after your onboarding</li>
<li>Sick leave benefit, parental leave and 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays</li>
<li>Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material</li>
<li>The annual international team-building trip, quarterly and monthly online get-togethers</li>
<li>As a fully remote company, with work-life balance at its core, you’ll enjoy flexible schedules</li>
<li>An international team that loves to have fun at work and works hard together to accomplish shared goals</li>
</ul></div><h3><strong>JOB SUMMARY</strong></h3>
<p>Storyblok is hiring a Salesforce Lead to own Salesforce architecture, execution, governance, data quality, integrations, and release discipline across our GTM workflows. This techno-functional owner moves from business process to system design, build coordination, release control, data quality, reporting impact, and user adoption, owning Sales Cloud and core CRM objects, Pardot / Account Engagement, DealHub CPQ integration, lead-to-cash and quote-to-cash workflows, routing, campaign and lifecycle data, permissions, integrations, and documentation. The role also leads future platform evaluation for Salesforce Data 360, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Advanced, Adobe Marketing Cloud, Oracle Responsys, and related CDP needs, and, if a platform is selected, leads implementation planning and execution with RevOps, Marketing Operations, Data, Finance, Legal, vendors, and external partners.</p>
<h3><strong> ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS</strong></h3>
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<li><strong> Salesforce architecture and GTM systems governance</strong></li>
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<li>Own Salesforce platform architecture across GTM workflows, objects, fields, permissions, automations, integrations, and release control.</li>
<li>Translate RevOps, Marketing Operations, Sales, Customer Success, Finance, and Data requirements into clean system design and controlled execution.</li>
<li>Maintain governance for new fields, objects, flows, validation rules, permission sets, integrations, reporting dependencies, and documentation.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong> Sales Cloud and core CRM ownership</strong></li>
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<li>Own system design for leads, contacts, accounts, opportunities, activities, campaigns, lifecycle stages, routing, renewals, expansions, and customer handoffs.</li>
<li>Support lead-to-cash workflows with clear ownership, required fields, source logic, stage rules, assignment logic, and adoption checks.</li>
<li>Monitor CRM completeness, data freshness, duplicates, routing failures, and workflow friction that creates manual workarounds.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong> Pardot, Account Engagement, and marketing workflow support</strong></li>
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<li>Partner with Marketing Operations on Pardot or Account Engagement, campaign data, lifecycle stages, scoring inputs, consent, routing, attribution support, and funnel reporting.</li>
<li>Maintain the Salesforce-side architecture for marketing-to-sales handoffs, campaign member data, source fields, conversion logic, and reporting quality.</li>
<li>Keep current marketing workflows stable while future marketing cloud and CDP options are evaluated.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong> Future Data 360, SFMC Advanced, Adobe, Oracle, and CDP evaluation</strong></li>
</ol>
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<li>Lead the requirements, scorecard, architecture review, vendor comparison, data governance review, and implementation readiness plan for future customer data and marketing cloud decisions.</li>
<li>Evaluate Salesforce Data 360, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Advanced, Adobe Marketing Cloud, Oracle Responsys, and related CDP needs against GTM use cases, data model, activation, consent, reporting, integration, cost, and operating complexity.</li>
<li>If a platform is selected, lead implementation planning and execution with clear phases, owners, risks, testing, migration, enablement, and adoption metrics.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong> DealHub CPQ integration, data quality, releases, and adoption</strong></li>
</ol>
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<li>Own Salesforce-side integration quality for DealHub CPQ, including quote data, approval sync, product lines, opportunity fields, order handoffs, and reporting impact.</li>
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
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About Storyblok
Storyblok is a company in the excel industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 13 open positions on Hirezar. View all Storyblok jobs →