Principal Product Manager, Platform Foundation
Company Description
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Job Description
Team
Come join the Platform Foundation and Administration Product team and work with a talented group of PMs, developers, designers and researchers. Platform Foundation and Administration looks to provide scalable, intuitive platform services and experiences that enable ServiceNow, partners and customers to build, extend and deliver ServiceNow products.
Role
You will be leading the efforts to modernize our Scripting and Application Services at ServiceNow. Your areas of focus will include evolving our scripting experience and exploring new scripting technologies for meeting the needs of the platform and the applications that are built on top of it. In addition, you will also help define the way forward for net new application services that can unlock new application patterns, enable complex data transformations and help extend the platform with remote table functionality to meet the platform of platform vision. This role is highly collaborative, working with peer inbound and outbound product managers across BUs, customers, engineers, designers, researchers, and other cross functional teams.
What you get to do in this role:
Product Strategy and Planning:
- Drive product vision and strategy that sets us up for success as we look to scale to $10B+ in revenue
- Collaborate with customers, researchers, and designers on developing and testing innovative product ideas
- Validate and refine product designs/early product offerings through Design Partner Program, Product Advisory Council and with other customers directly
- Subject matter expert on competitive analysis and technical challenges
- Understands tech trends and how they affect the roadmap
- Continually define and groom epic and story product roadmap with 3-4 release horizon
- Engage stakeholders on necessary inputs for product strategy & roadmap, get buy-in, manage communications, expectations and dependencies.
- Requirements Prioritization and Release Management:
- Gather, prioritize and define requirements (while actively grooming backlog) into executable epics and user stories for engineering
- Establish and maintain relationships with the other BUs to evaluate and manage cross-BU dependencies (both from and to the BU)
- Create product/feature plans for each release, including acceptance criteria, use cases, success metrics, and related documentation
- Collaborate with engineering team on release mgmt.: understand status, risks, dependencies and help address risks and resolve issues
Customer Insights:
- Define key product success metrics and ensure they are instrumented & reviewed
- Understand use cases by BU to better serve internal customers
- Understand how customers are using the product, gains & pains, reasons for low usage
- Know top 3-5 customers intimately, their specific use cases, gains & pains
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:
- 8+ years Product Management experience with a strong technical background
- Strategic mindset: able to define product strategy that achieves strong customer value and business outcomes
- Technically savvy with experience working with developers and designers to craft delightful developer experiences. Experience as a developer in the past would be highly valued.
- Strong prioritization skills and the discipline to focus on high impact activities
- Top notch written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated experience in gathering, defining and effectively capturing product requirements and transforming them into an actionable product roadmap
- Customer focus: has deep curiosity about customer needs, as well as a track record in building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
- Facilitative leadership skills: can use marketing, product, and business knowledge to inform decisions and communicate effectively with/ influence internal and external parties
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills and a proven process of data-validated, hypothesis-driven, experiment-tested decisions
Bonus Points:
- Experience building frameworks will be highly valued
- Experience working with ServiceNow
Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment 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.
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