Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer Flow

About Flow by ServiceNow

Flow is a product and a new business unit in ServiceNow staffed by a team of 0-1 builders. Were creating Flow an AI-native conversational experience for natural language automation and enterprise service management. Flow is built on a new tech stack with new ways of working. We challenge established practices and are defining a new product and GTM playbook for ServiceNow. Flow puts what we build in front of the largest possible audience. Youll have real ownership of the work the freedom to move fast and the resources of a global technology leader behind you. If you have a point of view on building and want to start from the beginning again we want to talk to you wherever you are.

Plenty of people can ship an AI prototype this year. Few get to build a product that runs enterprise work at global scale. Join us.

Job Description

We are hiring a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Solutions Engineer to be the most senior technical authority for Flow customers guiding strategic and enterprise accounts from first demo and trial to long-term expanding success. You will lead the hardest customer deployments architect solutions that go beyond what the product does today and turn what you learn in the field into product strategy. You will also raise the bar for the entire forward deployed team by setting technical standards building repeatable playbooks and mentoring other engineers. The role combines deep technical implementation strategic customer partnership and cross-functional leadership.

Ready to turn were stuck into were live for the most complex enterprise environments You will own outcomes across multiple strategic customers influence the Flow roadmap and define how ServiceNow deploys AI-native products in the field.

What You Will Do

Technical Solutions and Architecture

• Lead technical design and delivery for strategic enterprise deployments including SSO and identity architecture multi-system integrations and security and compliance reviews with customer IT and security leadership.
• Architect and build complex production-grade automations and workflows with Flows natural-language builder across tools such as Okta Microsoft Teams Slack Jira Workday Zoom Microsoft 365 and ServiceNow.
• Design knowledge and retrieval strategies across document sources such as SharePoint Google Drive Box Notion and the ServiceNow knowledge base so the AI returns accurate sourced answers at enterprise scale.
• Solve problems the product does not yet handle by designing and documenting scalable workarounds and convert them into reusable patterns reference architectures and product capabilities.
• Lead proof-of-concept and strategic evaluation efforts partnering with sales and executive stakeholders to demonstrate value and win competitive engagements.

Customer Success and Strategic Adoption

• Define and continuously improve the onboarding and implementation motion so new customers set up and enable Flow in a few hours and reach production in one day.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer IT directors and executives aligning Flow with their broader IT and operations strategy and ServiceNows plans.
• Use Flow analytics on usage conversation allowances and automation results to build business cases demonstrate value and drive expansion from an initial use case to a full self-service service desk.
• Own multi-account health and adoption outcomes identifying risks early and driving executive-level resolution when needed.

Product Influence and Technical Leadership

• Translate patterns across customers into clear product requirements and strategy and partner with product management and engineering to prioritize and shepherd them through delivery.
• Serve as the voice of the customer in roadmap architecture and go-to-market discussions shaping how Flow is positioned packaged and priced.
• Establish technical standards playbooks and tooling for the forward deployed function and scale them across teams.
• Mentor and coach solutions engineers at IC3 and IC4 levels and act as an escalation point for the most difficult issues.

Support and Reliability

• Serve as the final technical escalation for critical customer issues such as API timeouts sync errors payment-related questions and failed automations and drive them from diagnosis to durable resolution.
• Reproduce bugs isolate root causes and work directly with core engineers to resolve them including systemic issues affecting multiple customers.
• Use Flow health audit and activity logs to diagnose complex issues identify outages and define monitoring and triage practices that improve reliability for all customers.

Qualifications :

• 10 years in customer-facing technical roles such as forward deployed solutions or implementation engineering in enterprise software including experience leading strategic multi-system deployments.
• Deep hands-on experience with REST APIs scripting automations and webhooks with the ability to design integration architectures and debug them at depth.
• Expert knowledge of single sign-on and identity architectures including SAML OAuth Okta and Entra ID and of enterprise security and compliance requirements.
• Extensive experience with enterprise service management or collaboration platforms such as ServiceNow Jira Slack or Microsoft Teams.
• Strong understanding of AI and workflow automation including prompt design retrieval-augmented approaches and evaluating the quality and accuracy of AI answers.
• Proven ability to communicate and influence from system administrators and security engineers to IT directors and executives.
• Demonstrated ability to connect customer outcomes to broader IT and operations strategy and to ServiceNows plans.
• Track record of technical leadership and mentorship and of influencing product direction and cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Preferred 

• Experience with service desk offerings.
• Experience with AI-native or cloud-native enterprise products.
• Background in product-led growth or consumption-priced software.
• Experience building an onboarding or implementation motion playbooks or a forward deployed function from scratch; startup experience is helpful but not required.

For positions in this location we offer a base pay of $171900 - $300800 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 including flexible spending accounts a 401(k) Plan with company match ESPP matching donations a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time