Principal Technical Program Manager

Company Description

At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. We move fast because the world can’t wait, and we innovate in ways no one else can for our customers and communities. By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We know that your best work happens when you live your best life and share your unique talents, so we do everything we can to make that possible. We dream big together, supporting each other to make our individual and collective dreams come true. The future is ours, and it starts with you. 

With more than 7,400+ customers, we serve approximately 80% of the Fortune 500, and we're proud to be one of FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World's Most Admired Companies® 2022.

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Job Description

Team & Role

Team 

The Security and Strategic Program Management team takes large, company-wide, highly visible programs from vision to release. We facilitate ServiceNow’s overall release process through key partnerships with technology and business stakeholders. We work hard to ensure high quality on-time releases that delight our customers. 

Role 

As a Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for managing large, complex release programs from start to finish.  You will be responsible for providing a proactive, strategic perspective on process improvements, as well as a tactical view into daily progress and issues. Your primary focus will be engineering, but your responsibilities will include cross-functional coordination. Each day you will exercise key skills such as conflict resolution, cross-team collaboration, as well as asking and answering questions with precision. This position may require approximately 25% travel.

What you get to do in this role:

• Drive large scale, high visibility software development programs 
• Exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments
• Organize complex, ambiguous problems into prioritized milestones, deliverables, and success criteria for your programs
• Translate business objectives into execution strategy (tactical and strategic), lead and successfully execute the strategy through strong collaboration and agile leadership.
• Work with multiple delivery teams to take ownership and accountability of technical project planning and delivery for product development programs
• Develop trusted relationships with key technology, functional leaders and stakeholders to drive focus on the strategic program objectives and optimize program delivery. This includes supporting and holding resources accountable for their responsibilities within the program.
• Ensure data is collected to appropriately inform decision making for mitigating risks and resolving issues
• Utilize internal tools and agile mindset to create a collaborative environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation and continuous improvement
• Drive a continuous focus on developing software based solutions or using automation to replace repeatable, operational tasks
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent programs from delivering on program objectives
• Drive for clarity to keep teams moving forward.
• Provide “go to” leadership, transparency and visibility to the entire Technology & Products organization
• Seek to continuously grow by proactively seeking and embracing constructive feedback
• Provide feedback to colleagues to encourage an open and collaborative culture
• Understand and streamline end to end process

In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:

• Minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 12 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent experience 
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science (CS