Director Software Engineering Management

The engineering organization is a dynamic group of builders thinkers and problem-solvers focused on delivering scalable AI-powered software products that improve how organizations work. We value clean architecture intuitive experiences operational excellence and a culture of continuous improvement. Every engineer plays an important role in shaping the quality reliability and long-term success of our products. 

About the Team 

The Service Operations Business Unit brings together IT Service Management (ITSM) IT Operations Management (ITOM) and CMDB capabilities on the ServiceNow Platform. This product engineering organization builds the software that helps customers deliver resilient intelligent and efficient enterprise services. 

The Service Operations product portfolio connects incident request fulfillment infrastructure visibility service mapping trusted configuration data automation and AIOps into a unified operating model. By combining service delivery with operational intelligence and trusted operational context these products help customers move toward proactive AI-assisted and increasingly self-healing operations at enterprise scale. 

Together these capabilities help customers modernize how they deliver and operate services improve reliability reduce manual effort and drive measurable productivity outcomes on a single platform. 

What you get to do in this role:

As a Director of Engineering you will lead the teams that architect and build assistive and autonomous AI-native products to usher customers (IT departments using our IT service and operations management applications) into an agentic-first era. The work will span large-scale distributed systems data ingestion context creation and utilization agentic harnesses cost optimization and agentic feedback loops to ensure value realization for our customers. 

This role requires people leadership thought leadership deep technical expertise strong architectural judgment and a keen understanding of the scientific method to ship and refine real product through iterative experimentation. You will be accountable for the growth health and delivery outcomes of your teams. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Lead and grow the engineering teams responsible for assigned problem areas within ITSM/ITOM products working with product and engineering leaders to understand blockers and opportunities around AI-native evolution and value realization. 
• Own technical strategy and delivery for your teams. Set architectural direction hold the bar on quality and reliability and stay close enough to the work to validate hypotheses through evidence not theory. 
• Hire coach and develop engineers tech leads and managers. Build inclusive high-performing teams with clear career paths and durable ownership. 
• Drive evidence-based decision-making: formulate hypotheses run experiments measure outcomes and use data to guide architectural decisions and product direction. 
• Lead the evolution of current solutions toward AI-native capabilitiesidentifying where agentic patterns data utilization or autonomous workflows can unlock customer valueand translate those recommendations into staffed executable work. 
• Identify and address value realization gaps in agentic products that exist but arent delivering expected outcomes. Diagnose root causes (architecture UX data quality feedback loops cost) and direct targeted improvements. 
• Establish architecture patterns engineering standards and operating rhythms specific to your problem domain. Document tradeoffs rationale and implementation guidance to help teams move faster and make consistent decisions. 
• Collaborate across ITSM/ITOM engineering teams to share learnings validate approaches and accelerate adoption of patterns that work. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Product Design Security Operations Sales and Customer Success aligning on roadmap and release readiness meeting security and compliance requirements and feeding field and customer signal back into engineering priorities. 

Qualifications :

To be successful in this role you have: 

• 15 years of related engineering experience including 5 years leading and managing engineering teams (including managers or team leads) or equivalent practical experience. 
• Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems enterprise platforms workflow systems data-intensive products integration frameworks or cloud-scale infrastructure. 
• Deep understanding of system design for scale reliability observability fault tolerance data quality security and production readiness. 
• Strong technical depth in Java Python or similar programming languages. 
• Proven ability to define technical direction influence architecture across teams and translate ambiguous product strategy into executable engineering plans. 
• Demonstrated success hiring developing and retaining engineers and engineering leaders and managing performance career growth and team health. 
• Ability to lead through formal authority and technical credibility alike building alignment across peer engineering Product Design Security Operations Sales and Customer Success organizations. 
• Strong judgment in balancing long-term architecture with pragmatic execution customer impact engineering velocity and business priorities. 
• Experience mentoring senior engineers raising engineering standards and building reusable patterns that create leverage across teams. 
• Experience with AI-powered products automation platforms AI-assisted workflows or agentic systems is strongly preferred. 
• Ability to reason about AI-assisted enterprise workflows including data quality workflow correctness evaluation observability safety controls and human-in-the-loop review. 
• Experience with enterprise service management IT operations CMDB discovery service mapping AIOps observability workflow automation endpoint management or operational intelligence is a strong plus. 
• Experience working with large-scale enterprise customers production systems and complex migration or modernization efforts is a plus. 
• Why Join Us 
• Shape the AI-native future of the Service Operations Business Unit product portfolio on the ServiceNow Platform. 
• Build and lead the teams delivering foundational product and platform capabilities that help enterprises deliver operate automate and continuously improve services at scale. 
• Define how AI agents automation operational data and human workflows come together to create safer more reliable and more productive enterprise operations. 
• Collaborate with teams that value craftsmanship quality innovation accountability and meaningful customer impact. 

Additional Information :

For positions in this location we offer a base pay of $183600 - $321300 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 an RRSP Plan with company match ESPP matching donations family and medical leave programs and Annual vacation: 20 days per year accrued every pay period at 6.67 hours. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

Work Personas

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Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity  veteran status or any other category protected by addition all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time