Senior Director, Product Creative Direction

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, Service Now is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our Service Now AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better.

We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

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Team and Role

This role is part of our Product Design team, which turns a deep understanding of our users and customers into product experiences they love. Our designers bring expertise across design systems, visual design, interaction design, content design, and product design. At Service Now, design has an intentional seat at the table, and we partner with Engineering and Product Management from the outset.

We're looking for a Senior Director ofProduct

Creative Direction to define and evolve the visual expression of our product portfolio. This leader will set a distinctive product visual direction, translate it into a scalable system, and help teams make complex enterprise software feel clear, coherent, modern, and unmistakably Service Now.

This is a product-focused creative leadership role. You will work as part of cross-functional software development teams and partner across Platform and the business units to connect creative vision with customer needs, product strategy, and technical realities. Product teams retain ownership of their product strategy, design, roadmap, quality, and delivery; this role provides shared visual direction, systems, critique, and enablement.

You will also advance the responsible use of AI in creative work and make accessibility intrinsic to the product visual language.

What you get to do in this role

• Define and champion a differentiated visual direction for the product portfolio, grounded in our brand, customer needs, product strategy, and the evolving relationship between people and AI.

• Establish a clear point of view across typography, color, composition, iconography, illustration, motion, data visualization, density, and other visual foundations.

• Create future-state concepts, reference experiences, and exemplars that make thevisualdirection tangible.

• Work with Design Systems, Product Design, Content Design, Accessibility,Localization,and Research to translate the visual language into scalable foundations, components, patterns, and guidance.

• Partner with Design Systems, Product Management and Engineering throughout the software development lifecycle so the creative direction can be applied effectively in shipped products.

• Define where consistency is essential, where variation creates value, and how teams can extend the system without creating a centralized bottleneck.

• Lead the strategy for AI-enabled creative exploration, prototyping, asset creation, system evolution, and evaluation, focusing on meaningful gains in range, speed, consistency, and quality.

• Move promising AI approaches from experimentation to repeatable practice through pilots, playbooks, training, exemplars, responsible-use standards, and measurable adoption goals.

• Provide creative direction and hands-on critique for priority, cross-product initiatives while reinforcing product-team ownership.

• Partner with Brand and Marketing so the company expression and product experience tell a coherent story while remaining useful and native to interactive software.

• Make accessibility intrinsic to the creative vision and visual…