From Salesforce graduate program to top Agentforce seller — could you follow this career path? I sat down with Victor Kisielevoska, an Enterprise Account Executive in Paris whose journey at Salesforce began in the Futureforce program and led to becoming a leading Agentforce seller in 2024. His contributions were so profound that he landed at the top of a leaderboard shared during Company Kick-Off.
Victor’s path at Salesforce is a perfect example of how Salesforce’s university recruiting team, Futureforce, doesn’t just hire top talent — it helps them grow and make a real impact on the company. Let’s take a look at how Victor did it.
Landing His Dream Job: From FMCG to Futureforce
Victor’s ambition to work in tech started during a gap year from business school in France. After working in digital marketing for a consumer goods company, he realized he was craving a faster-paced environment — one that ultimately drew him to tech.
Once he returned for his final year of studies, he reached out to alumni from his business school who were working at different tech companies, including Salesforce. What sold him on the Futureforce program was the positive feedback he received about its focus on “growth,” “development,” “coaching,” and the “international opportunities” — he even got to travel to Dublin and San Francisco as part of his Salesforce graduate training. “[The Futureforce program helps you to] grow and develop, protected from the pressure but still exposed to great responsibilities,” Victor explained.
Building Skills and Changing Roles
When hired by the Futureforce program, Victor landed in a Customer Success-focused grad program that gave him six months to “really invest time to train [himself] around the product.” Victor started to feel more confident, as the knowledge he gained ‘legitimised’ him to the company. He also loved the “international community,” and worked with grads from all over Europe on specialised initiatives, like designing CRM dashboards for customers.
But how did Victor go from digital marketing to sales? In his junior role as a Customer Success Manager, he realized he was effectively ‘selling’ to his accounts already and, through his assessment methodology, realized he “wanted to be incentivized for those sales,” he laughed. He decided to join the Enterprise Corporate Sales (ECS) program to “own the whole sales cycle” — and found his strength in this new org.
After three successful years of meeting his quotas, Victor felt he was ready for a new challenge. This led him to move to the General Business (GB) unit, where he’s now a top seller for Agentforce.
Why Agentforce? The Differentiator
What makes Agentforce such a great product to market to customers? Victor attributed his success to the product’s unique positioning amidst the AI shift that we’re seeing worldwide. “Customers are not waiting for us—they’re already building their own AI [capabilities]” said Victor.
He explained that Agentforce has the unique positioning around “conscious agents” that simplifies processes and allows customers to see the real-world possibilities. “For example, I just had a customer who was managing student rental accommodation in Lyon, France, but the customer service was based in China. The students’ questions were going into a mailbox that wasn’t being answered in their timezone. Agentforce allowed them to qualify those requests have all of the information ready to finalise the apartment rental as soon as the team came online.”
Victor also highlighted the key differentiator that makes Agentforce so powerful: its combination with Data Cloud and the Trust Layer. He noted that many customers are using AI tools where their sensitive data goes into “black box[es]” and they lose control of it. Salesforce, on the other hand, puts “AI in the workflow” and protects customer data, allowing companies to “industrialize and scale AI” securely.
“The relationship and the trust we built with the customer was my biggest achievement. When the deal closed, we actually all celebrated together—we were one team”. Victor on his biggest achievement in his current role.
From Salesforce Graduate to Top Seller: A Major Achievement
When asked about his biggest achievement at Salesforce, Victor immediately brought up a deal he closed with Vinci, a top global construction firm. While the deals he’s closed may be big, Victor is most proud of the human element of his work. “The relationship and the trust we built with the customer were my biggest achievements. When the deal closed, we actually all celebrated together—we were one team”.
For any graduates considering Salesforce, Victor has some great advice: “Salesforce is a top brand in the B2B space” — and new hires should learn all they can. He urges potential interns and new graduates to be “super curious” and to “talk to as many people as they can”. “It’s possible to achieve anything here because most of the people that are working here are super smart and are kind.”
“It’s a big company”, he admits, but “if you can manage to talk to the right people, then I think you will have all the information you need to to actually get a clear view of what you can do here”.
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