Service Management Lead, VP Enterprise Technology

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Job Description

The Vice President Service Management Lead will work closely with the broader Service Management team and technology function to establishing the enterprise standard for IT service design delivery and governance with a focus on automation streamlining the user experience and driving ServiceNow enabled workflows.

This role will own the IT Service Management (ITSM) program from end to end from defining what services exist how they are designed and supported understanding ownership and accountability and defining how success should be measured. The role will operate at both a strategic and tactical level; defining the roadmap and strategy for the ITSM platform within Blackstone while working closely with our business partners to design and deliver capability across the firm ensuring services are production-ready sustainable and low friction for our user base.

The Service Management Lead champions IT Service Management best practices across the technology organization driving alignment and buy in on where services and capabilities should be centralized standardized and consistently implemented. This role brings clarity accountability and discipline to shared services while enabling teams to move faster reduce friction and deliver better outcomes through well-designed well-governed services.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and lead a firmwide IT Service Management (ITSM) program by setting a clear strategic direction and defining the roadmap for IT Service Management at Blackstone providing transparency into service health maturity cost and performance.

• Define and enforce standards for how services workflows and catalog items are designed governed and supported ensuring consistency and scalability across the firm.

• Partner closely with ITSM architects to align on vision service design principles and target-state architecture and with developers to build execute and continuously improve ServiceNowenabled solutions.

• Lead the endtoend design and delivery of ServiceNowenabled workflow solutions from concept through production release ensuring solutions are productionready and sustainable.

• Own work intake prioritization and backlog management balancing strategic initiatives with nearterm delivery commitments and operational needs.

• Ensure service owners understand and are accountable for their workflows outcomes and longterm sustainability.

• Drive decisions manage tradeoffs track issues and support release planning and execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.

• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture to validate requirements solution patterns and platform alignment.

• Serve as a senior trusted partner to business and technology leaders by clearly communicating direction intent risks and tradeoffs.

• Translate complex technical and operational concepts into clear actionable narratives for senior leadership.

• Deliver datadriven service maturity assessments and crawlwalkrun roadmaps for service groups.

• Identify and recommend process improvements new processes and automation opportunities that reduce cost improve service quality and minimize downstream support burden.

• Coach and guide junior onshore and offshore business analysts building capability reinforcing best practices and ensuring consistent delivery quality.

• Act as a role model for operational rigor ensuring solutions are wellgoverned designed to scale and aligned with enterprise standards.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in an enterprise corporate technology environment.

• Minimum 5 years of handson ServiceNow experience across multiple modules or enterprise use cases.

• Demonstrated leadership experience with accountability for program outcomes and execution.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with prior experience influencing and aligning senior stakeholders.

• Prior experience balancing strategic vision with executionlevel detail.

• Proven experience leading complex initiatives involving multiple technical teams and business partners.

• Selfstarting entrepreneurial mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• ITIL v4 certification preferred.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant technology field.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments duties or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments duties and responsibilities may be changed at any time with or without notice by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individuals experience skills qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation and benefits offered in connection with the role consist of comprehensive health benefits including but not limited to medical dental vision and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstones sole discretion.

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Depending on the position you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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