Sr. Manager, Product Design, Customer & Partner Experience

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
Team & Role
At ServiceNow, we embrace representation in and from all professional and personal backgrounds and cultures. This diversity inspires passion and creativity among our teams and propels innovation in our products.
This role is part of our Product Design team that uses their superpower of empathizing, understanding, and applying our users' and customers' needs, with the mission to create product experiences they love. Our designers come from a diverse set of skills and backgrounds - design systems, visual, interaction, content, and product design. At ServiceNow, design has a very intentional seat at the table, so our team collaborates closely with both engineering and product management from the get-go.
Learn more about our team here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow/life/userexperience/
As part of the Customer & Partner Experience team, you will help lead design across a variety of products that cater to our post sales products. You will work with integrated and cross functional teams to innovate the way our customers use the ServiceNow platform while ensuring we operate as an efficient and unified team. We are looking for a design leader to help imagine the future of our post-sales tools while solving complex problems at enterprise scale.
What you get to do in this role:

• Oversee a portfolio of products, while acting as a mentor & manager to subordinates
• Work closely with Product and Engineering from strategic definition, planning, architecture, and innovation through tactical execution of the Product Roadmaps
• Work with your peers to ensure a unified and cohesive experience across the ServiceNow ecosystem
• Assist in conducting user needs assessment, task analysis and develop user profiles; identify key tasks for user research, competitive analysis and user testing, develop usability plans
• Develop high level task flow content and then use storyboards and other design documents to communicate concepts and vision to others
• Lead your team through rapid iteration of theoretical task scenarios, navigation map, flow, and state-transition diagrams to document design decisions
• Oversee your team's work: detailed mockups, prototypes and behavior specifications
• Understand the company's Design Systems, encourage their application, and contribute to their further development and maintenance.
• Participate in documentation development process such as user experience specifications, testing and evaluation

Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience managing people and/or leading design teams
• 9+ years of experience in Product Design and/or Interaction Design field
• Excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute to a multi-functional and multi-disciplined team
• An inspiring portfolio demonstrating the ability to lead teams and distill complex problems into elegant, holistic solutions based on human-centered design and research data
• Experience in leading teams who are developing frameworks and principles to standardize and guide cross-team work and successfully bring a product design from conception to launch with minimal supervision.
• A growth mindset, actively broadening areas of inquiry and learning, and seeking new opportunities and challenges.
• Ability to articulate and champion design solutions based on human-centered design principles and research data while influencing product experience strategy across a particular business unit or product line

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or higher in Design, Design Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent combination of education and experience in other related fields
• Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of web and/or software applications.
• Experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate, software, web or agency)

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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!
For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $163,000 - $285,200, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work. Learn more here .
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.
Accommodations
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Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
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