Southard Jones

Chief Product Officer, Analytics

My Background

As Chief Product Officer, Southard sets product strategy and leads the product management teams for Analytics products at Salesforce, including Tableau, CRM Analytics, Operational Reporting, and Data Cloud Reporting.

My Expertise

Prior to Salesforce, Southard held executive product and marketing roles at enterprise software companies in the Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science market, including Celonis, Domino Data Lab, Birst, Right 90, and Siebel Analytics.

Agent Astro stands next to an image of a semantic data model in Data Cloud and Tableau Next, with some AI sparkle dust.

Southard Jones

September 23, 2025

Salesforce is making a first-of-its-kind commitment with an alliance of industry leaders to build towards an open, interoperable future required to accelerate agentic AI.

Southard Jones

September 16, 2024

Salesforce’s new Custom Report Type interface is here to save your day. Now, you can easily manage and understand custom report types, plus connect to Salesforce Data Cloud for improved reporting and customer experiences.

Product Roadmaps

Southard Jones

The Agentic Future Demands an Open Semantic Layer

Making Reporting Ubiquitous: A sneak peek at the Reports & Dashboards roadmap

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