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Team & Role
ServiceNow's Digital Technology (DT) organization leads the digital transformation of ServiceNow's business functions. The Strategy Realization Office (SRO) organization supports this transformation by providing Program Management services.
We are looking for an individual to join us as a Senior Program Manager on the SRO team, where you will play a key role in planning and implementing complex, cross functional DT programs that directly support ServiceNow's corporate priorities in the Developer Experience and Productivity program. You will get to work with amazing global talent, leverage ServiceNow's great Agile products and take pride in being part of delivering excellent outcomes.
What you get to do in this role:
- Partner with Business, Product, and Engineering teams on large, complex cross functional programs, and drive them from original concept through final implementation.
- Work closely with product leaders to transform their vision to roadmaps powered by ServiceNow toolset.
- Program leadership role to establish Product in-take process, prioritization, OKR alignment, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria for your programs ultimately ensuring value realization.
- Manage program risks, issues and dependencies and escalate impediments to meet program objectives.
- Provide transparent and forthright communications on your programs to stakeholders, sponsors. Simplify complex issues into a crisp, actionable executive-level status.
- Ensure adherence to processes, quality standards, and deliverables so that your programs are delivered with data driven predictability.
- Organize and facilitate cross functional meetings and workshops to align teams on business requirements, solutions, and delivery plans. Publish notes, actions and follow through to completion.
- Create and maintain process documentation where needed to promote best practices and leverage lessons learned.
- Define governance models, operating models for the programs being managed. Socialize and operationalize these models for successful execution.
- Act as a Scrum Master on one or more teams ensuring alignment with established Agile and Scaled Agile processes.
- Deliver hands-on coaching of individual Scrum teams in all aspects of scrum - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, workshops etc.
**Qualifications**
To be successful in this role you have:
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience as a Program Manager and Scrum Master in an enterprise software company with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to dive into extremely complex, vague, and cross functional environments and map teams to plans.
- Hands on experience using Agile tools. Knowledge of ServiceNow Agile products is a plus.
- Strong facilitation, communication and influencing skills.
- Strong decision driving skills based on data and business benefit.
- Lean program management, continuous learning, adaptation, and improvement.
- Must enjoy working in a highly collaborative, matrixed environment.
- High energy, self-starter with aptitude for learning new technologies and ability to promote transformational change.
- Comfortable presenting operating & governance models, program plans, status etc. to large audiences and senior executives in person, virtual, and via webinars.
- Thrive in ambiguity with proven track record of out of the box problem solving skills.
- Lead from the front with a willingness to take on tasks that sometimes would fall outside of their scope to get the job done.
- Preferred - experience on projects and programs involving CI/CD automation, DORA metrics, developer productivity and Generative AI capabilities.
- Preferred - experience in organizing change adoption activities like trainings, and communications.
- Preferred - Engineering or Product management background (in addition to strong program management experience)
- Soft sk