Remote Position
[Remote] Principal Customer Success Executive
๐ Remote ยท New Zealand
๐ผ Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ServiceNow is hiring a Principal Customer Success Executive to own post-sale relationships with strategically important customers and increase satisfaction, retention, and platform value. The role leads complex transformations, advises C-suite stakeholders, supports adoption and renewals, and coordinates ServiceNow teams to deliver customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-complexity transformations in our largest and most strategic customers, ensuring all ServiceNow Customer Excellence roles align and deliver in accordance with governance frameworks, customer objectives, and organizational priorities; ultimately chaperoning Impact value management and demonstrating strategic oversight
- Proactively identify professional services pipeline opportunities through product capabilities road mapping, value blueprints and adoption analysis, providing pre-sales support for funnel opportunities as requested
- Partner with Impact team members (e.g., Customer Success Managers) leveraging the joint visibility of customer insights to create executive-ready narratives
- Work with senior executives to shape and influence customer organizational strategy by identifying emerging trends, refining best practices, and aligning delivery approaches with evolving market demands, and providing industry-specific thought leadership
- Drive operational consistency and excellence by standardizing delivery methodologies and ensuring adherence to governance and quality standards, interfacing with Delivery as required
- Establish relationships with ServiceNow leaders, advocating for product evolution based on customer insights, and mentoring other Customer Success resources on transformation best practices
- Identify areas of risk and take steps to prevent customer or revenue churn
- Work closely with Sales Teams to define and execute product adoption and customer retention plans
- Provide prescriptive guidance on internal project/program governance and help the customer create the appropriate governance models and ensure adherence
- Help the customer identify incidents where contractual SLAs were missed and take necessary action
- Improve overall customer satisfaction, as well as the satisfaction of their internal customers
Skills
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about 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
- Significant experience collaborating with senior IT and business leaders, with a track record of successfully translating corporate strategy/objectives with the applied use of ServiceNow technology in the context of the client's environment
- Project management experience required
- Minimum 15+ years in client-facing roles with a focus on account management, consulting, or transformation leadership
- Experience in any of the following critical subject areas, with a demonstrated history delivering consulting services:
- Experience with project problem diagnosis, solution development, client communications, facilitation of decision making, documentation, managing client expectations, and team leadership
- Independently leverages AI to optimize workflows, tailor customer solutions, and inform strategic decisions
- Articulates AI system design, ethical implications, and platform use cases clearly, guiding peers and stakeholders in responsible, value-driven AI adoption
- PMP preferred
- Experience in executive-level leadership roles, with a proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving strategic outcomes, is strongly preferred
- IT Strategy and Planning
- IT Operations and Management
- Human Resources
- Security Operations
- Customer Service Management
- IT Processes
- IT Governance
- IT Portfolio, Program and Project Management
- IT Project Delivery (SDLC)
Benefits
- Equity (when applicable)
- Variable/incentive compensation
- Health plans, including flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) Plan with company match
- ESPP
- Matching donations
- Flexible time away plan
- Family leave programs
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