Senior Manager, Expert Services

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

The Company

Work matters. It’s where we spend a third of our lives. And the workplace of the future is going to be a great place. We’re dedicated to bringing that to life for people everywhere. That’s why we put people at the heart of everything we do.

People matter. Our people have a passion for learning, building, and innovating. Whether you’re an engineer, a sales professional, a finance professional, or anything in-between, our roles aim to provide each person with meaningful impact and plenty of space to grow.

The Team

The Expert Services team at ServiceNow works with customers to help them achieve their business outcomes by providing prescriptive guidance. As part of the Expert Services team, you will work with our customers to drive consumption, adoption, and customer satisfaction and ultimately help our customers grow their business on the ServiceNow platform by getting them to see the value of their ServiceNow investment.

The Role

A Manager in the Platform Services Workflow is a position in our professional services (Customer Excellence Group) organization focused on all aspects of leading an expert team of resources (Business and Technical Consultants) in timely, high-quality delivery work for ServiceNow customers. This team has direct billable roles in ServiceNow-led customer engagements, as well as advisory or leadership roles in a co-delivery model with our partner ecosystem. Regardless of the delivery model, the objective of the team is to drive best practice and platform operating efficiency into our customers’ environments to ensure scalability and maintainability.

What you get to do in this role:

• Develop and execute the Americas Automation Engine and Platform business plan within Platform Services Workflows, including strategy for growth and market penetration, competitiveness, and differentiation.
• Support service and product selling motions in the form of accurate delivery scoping and delivery strategy
• Meet with Customer Leadership to position the use of Expert Services resources as part of several different models including co-delivery with partners, advisory expertise, and ServiceNow-led implementation work.
• Provide business and technical leadership with our Consultants, Customers, and Partners – often in a billable capacity within an engagement.
• Directly responsible for hiring, ensuring enablement of, developing, and managing high-performing experts who consult, implement, and configure the ServiceNow Platform Services Workflows and Platform products for our customers and with our Partner Ecosystem.
• Partner with internal teams to support training, enablement, product management, and best practices organizations.
• Promote and drive continuous improvement practices for delivery/engagement materials
• Maintain and strengthen cross-functional relationships with product teams
• Collaborate with Service Offerings team to build and maintain a robust service offering catalog for customer consumption

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
•  2+ years of leadership experience in a professional services organization in one (or more) of the following roles (required)
  • Practice Management 
  • Program/Project Management
  •  Implementation
  • Process Engineering
  •  Product Management
• 5+ years of consulting experience for complex, global organizations, preferably in a platform architecture capacity
• Services Sales
• Experience managing professional services forecasting, resourcing, and capacity
• Experience working within Agile or Scaled Agile frameworks
• Industry certifications that may include:
  • Certified ServiceNow Administrator (CSA)
  • ServiceNow Certified Application Developer and any additional platform-based certifications are a benefit (Flo