Major Incident Manager

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
What you get to do in this role:

• Drive the ServiceNow Major Incident Management Process for critical customer situations
• Coordinate with peer managers worldwide on resources, issues and schedules
• Manage and report ongoing CritSit metrics
• Support accurate and consistent maintenance of technical and management escalation processes
• Create and maintain recovery playbooks for commonly occurring customer patterns and issues
• Primary lead for Technical Support during customer outages
• Ownership and execution of the active critical incident management process, including:
  • Event analysis, applying the ITIL framework for severity and impact
  • Facilitate the resolution effort and determine when it is necessary to engage additional resources if the resolution effort is stalled during the call with stakeholders
  • Engagement of escalation management resources
  • Manage customer and internal communications at an executive level
  • Timeline documentation and review
• Manage event communications:
• Establish and manage bridge calls with engineers and customers on single customer outage
• Crafts business appropriate communications for the affected operating groups and manages communication on a critical incident conference call
• Post event program management
  • Conduct post-event analysis, leveraging the ITIL problem management process and relationships with engineering to assure that issues to prevent further occurrences
  • Incident Resolution handoffs along with detailed notes and a summary of the business impact and duration to the Problem Management team
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned

Qualifications
Qualifications and technical skills that will lead to your success:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in critical/crisis situation management for technical customer escalations
• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering or related field or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
• The ability to communicate confidently and clearly on conference calls, in meetings and via email, at all levels of the organization is essential
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Customer focus and ownership, use of own initiative and a proactive approach to work
• Crafts business appropriate communications for the affected operating groups and manages communication on a major incident conference call
• Extensive experience supporting and managing technical environments; demonstrated leadership skills under fast-paced, highly dynamic situations
• Must be technically literate and be able to articulate technical issues in a meaningful way to both engineers and executive level management
• Crisis management skills: able to set priorities, pursue multiple threads at the same time, accurately reflect current state and drive towards desired state
• Ability to maintain calm during stressful situations
• A team player who is influential and builds good working relationships across all functions.
• Excellent project management skills, including demonstrated ability to manage projects across teams where influencing skills are required
• Experience or working knowledge with relational databases (e.g.MySQL, Oracle)

We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits and a professional atmosphere. This is a very collaborative and inclusive work environment where individuals strong on aptitude and attitude will have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology and talented developers in the business.
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Not sure if you meet every qualification? We still encourage you to apply! We value inclusivity, welcoming candidates from diverse backgrounds, including non-traditional paths. Unique experiences enrich our team, and the willingness to dream big makes you an exceptional candidate!
Additional Information
Work Personas
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Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
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