About the Salesforce team
Our Salesforce team builds and maintains the systems that power CG’s grantmaking and partnerships operations. Salesforce is our system of record, but it sits within a broader ecosystem of tools — such as Airtable, data pipelines, form tools like FormAssembly and Fillout, and integrations like Ironclad — that together support how grants move from decision through payment. Our org supports over 230 active users, including CG staff and external users. While our record volume is relatively low, our work tends to be high-touch and high-complexity, with heavy customization and a deliberately code-first build. The Salesforce team acts as internal consultants to many teams at CG. We care about understanding the problem as much as we do building the solution, and we’re always looking for ways to remove friction, improve data quality, and make our systems more useful to the people who rely on them.
This role involves two primary responsibilities: 1) developing a deep understanding of what CG’s stakeholders need, and 2) building it in Salesforce. On the “Administrator” side, you’d own a meaningful share of our incoming ticket triage rotation and make hands-on declarative updates in Salesforce, working closely with our team. On the “Business Analyst” side, you’d own intake, discovery, and requirements work so that projects have build-ready requirements and get shipped faster. Requests increasingly span Salesforce, other tools like Airtable and Slack, Claude-powered workflows, and manual processes, and you’d help gather requirements for workflows that involve many tools, with a strong understanding of how changes in one may affect connecting workflows.
While we currently expect our ideal candidate to spend 60% of their time on administration and 40% on business analysis, it is possible that the exact balance could shift depending on team needs and the candidate’s particular strengths.
You would join a growing Salesforce team — spanning Eastern, Central, and Brasília time — that meets daily and works closely together. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. Our system keeps getting more complex as CG grows, which means more to administer, more processes to document, and more opportunities to make how we work better!