Sr. Manager, Product Design, DTXD

Company Description
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.
Job Description
About the role:
We're looking for a Senior UX Manager to lead and inspire a team of talented UX Designers focused on ServiceNow's employee-facing products and platforms. In this role, you'll be a champion for design craft, quality, and delivery, while helping ServiceNow push the boundaries of what's possible with AI, enterprise workflows, and human-centered design.
This role is uniquely positioned: the solutions your team designs will not only improve how ServiceNow employees work, but also influence the very products we bring to customers. We customize ServiceNow's platform for our own business needs, then bring those insights back to our product teams, making you and your team a critical voice in shaping innovation that reaches millions of users worldwide.
Why You'll Love This Role:
You'll sit at the intersection of design, AI, and enterprise innovation. Where every solution your team creates not only transforms how ServiceNow employees work but also influences the experiences of our global customers. You'll help shape the future of AI-powered enterprise design, strengthen the UX discipline, and lead a team that takes pride in designing experiences that are both strategically impactful and deeply human.
What you get to do in this role:
Lead and develop talent

• Manage, coach, and inspire a team of UX Designers, fostering growth in craft, collaboration, and strategic thinking.

• Provide regular feedback, career guidance, and development opportunities aligned with individual goals and team priorities.

Shape the future of AI + UX

• Drive adoption of forward-looking AI patterns and design standards, ensuring they are engaging, consistent, and responsibly integrated into workflows.
• Guide your team to anticipate emerging opportunities in AI and translate them into practical, business-ready solutions.

• Partner with platform and design system teams to build reusable components and frameworks that scale across ServiceNow experiences.

Deliver high-impact design

• Ensure design work delivers measurable user value and business impact, not just visual polish (but that too).
• Oversee design execution from discovery through delivery, keeping experiences scalable, intuitive, and aligned with the Now Platform.

• Champion consistent design patterns while fostering innovation in new product areas and workflows.

Build strong cross-functional partnerships

• Partner closely with Technical and Business Product and Engineering teams to align on priorities, shape roadmaps, and ensure impactful, scalable delivery.
• Collaborate across the Experience Design (XD) organization - including strategy, research, content, accessibility, and design system - to deliver well-rounded, evidence-based solutions.

• Act as a connector between internal employee experiences and external product development, ensuring learnings and insights feed back into customer-facing innovation.

Elevate process and visibility

• Implement and refine processes for tracking design work, capacity, and priorities, ensuring transparency and enabling proactive workload management.

• Contribute to and reinforce the DTXD engagement model, clarifying how design integrates with strategy, research, and development workflows.

Inspire and unify the design culture

• Help lead team-wide connection, training, and up-skilling initiatives to strengthen shared identity and pride in our design contributions.

• Foster a culture of inclusivity, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications
Basic qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or higher in Design, Design Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent combination of education and experience in other related fields.

• Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of web and/or software applications.

• Experience leading user experience design teams in a software-first setting (start-up, agency or enterprise).

Preferred qualifications:

• 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.

• 4+ years of experience managing people and/or leading design teams.

• 9+ years of experience in Product Design and/or Interaction Design field.

• Excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute to a multi-functional and multi-disciplined team.

• An inspiring portfolio demonstrating the ability to lead teams and distill complex problems into elegant, holistic solutions based on human-centered design and research data.

• Experience in leading teams who are developing frameworks and principles to standardize and guide cross-team work and successfully bring a product design from conception to launch with minimal supervision.

• A growth mindset, actively broadening areas of inquiry and learning, and seeking new opportunities and challenges.

• Ability to articulate and champion design solutions based on human-centered design principles and research data while influencing product experience strategy across a particular business unit or product line.

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Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal 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. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
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