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We are seeking a seasoned Staff Researcher to join the core product team for the rapidly growing Asset Management business unit to drive product decisions through user insights and data.
Job Description
What you get to do in this role:
Understand customers’ unique needs for our products, including defining and synthesizing user needs, pain points, use cases, and specific product opportunities.
Build trusted relationships across PM, Design, Engineering, and Support so research is brought into roadmap conversations early.
Serve as a strategic partner to Product Managers, Designers, and other cross-functional team members to influence product strategy and roadmaps through actionable insights and data.
Influence product decisions by presenting evidence that reframes problems, shifts priorities, or changes scope.
Triangulate quant, qual, and telemetry data to formulate a strong perspective for the future state of the product and develop strategic and tactical insights with actionable recommendations.
Translate complex research into clear, compelling narratives tailored to audiences from designers to executives. Champion the strategic value of research with senior leaders to expand its role in product decisions.
Use advanced AI skills to enhance the execution and analysis phases to move fast.
Provide mentorship to other members of the team and champion the discipline across the organization.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications (The must have):
Experience in leveraging 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.
Proven track record in using qual and quant research methods in solving user problems.
Extensive experience in applying customer-centered research techniques to product definition and designs.
Expert knowledge in defining, planning and executing research studies including outlining objectives, goals, and timelines. This includes developing sample plans and determining the best data collection approach using quantitative and/or qualitative methods.
Expert presentation skills to visualize and articulate technically complex topics and make them easy to understand with customers as well as product management and design stakeholders.
A portfolio of work representing research that influenced product decisions. This includes examples of research goals, research methodologies used, the process followed, your involvement and role, data visualizations, and crisply articulated insights from the research that drove product and design decisions.
Preferred Qualifications (The nice to have):
Experience in shipping enterprise software products for various user types.
Experience in using analytics and telemetry as part of the data points.
Experience with the execution of large-scale surveys as well as rich qualitative research techniques.
The ability to learn new technical concepts quickly.
Experience coaching and mentoring more junior team members, contributing to their growth
Work Personas
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Skills Required
- Experience integrating AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving
- Proven experience using qualitative and quantitative research methods to solve user problems
- Extensive experience applying customer-centered research techniques to product definition and design
- Expertise defining, planning, and executing research studies, including objectives, timelines, sample plans, and data collection methods
- Expert presentation skills for visualizing and explaining technically complex topics to customers and product stakeholders
- Portfolio demonstrating research that influenced product decisions, including methodologies, process, role, visualizations, and insights
- Experience shipping enterprise software products for various user types
- Experience using analytics and telemetry in research
- Experience executing large-scale surveys and qualitative research
- Ability to learn new technical concepts quickly
- Experience coaching and mentoring junior team members
ServiceNow Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription benefits alongside HSA support, counseling, and an employee assistance program. Affordable insurance, mental‑health resources, and wellness support are cited as particular strengths in the U.S.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes 12 paid holidays and vacation that increases with tenure, reaching about 20 days after five or more years. Some teams also offer flexible or unlimited PTO, though practical usage can depend on workload and manager expectations.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs such as RSUs, an employee stock‑purchase plan, and stock discounts are described as valuable parts of total compensation. Bonuses and annual increases further enhance the package for many roles.
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What We Do
As the AI platform for business transformation, we're putting AI to work across organizations — freeing people for work that matters. Making old tech work with new tech. Reaching across departments, from the front office to the back office and every office in between. Our ambition? To become the AI defining enterprise software company of the 21st century (or "AI DESCO21C," as we like to call it). With more than 8,400+ customers, we serve approximately 90% of the Fortune 500®, and we're proud to be a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World's Most Admired Companies™. Explore your future career with us, visit www.careers.servicenow.com From Fortune. ©2026 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license.
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