Senior Solution Architect, Platform Expert Services

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 — Service Now 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.

Service Now is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. We're growing fast, innovating faster, and making an impact on our customers' and employees' lives in significant and important ways. With over 6,900 customers, we serve approximately 80% of the Fortune 500, and we're on the 2020 list of FORTUNE World's Most Admired Companies.

We're looking for people who are ready to roll up their sleeves and help us build on our incredible momentum, our diverse, engaged workforce, and our purpose to make the world of work, work better.

Learn more on Life at Now blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Service Now.

The Customer Excellence Group at Service Now works with customers to help them achieve their business outcomes by providing prescriptive guidance. As part of the Customer Excellence Group, you will work with our customers to drive consumption, adoption, and customer satisfaction and ultimately help our customers grow their business on the Service Now platform by getting them to see the value of their Service Now investment.

The Solution Architect, Platform is a functional and technical expert consulting with customers on implementing a Service Now Workflow's Solutions based on best practices – all with the goal of accelerating and driving customer business outcomes. The role requires the person to be laser‑focused on solving for the most relevant customer challenges - providing support during sales cycles, on direct engagements with our Customers and Partners, and advocating for customer needs within Service Now (e.g., Product Management, Customer & Partner Excellence, Training & Certification).

Solution Architect, Platform brings architectural guidance, business acumen in the industry (e.g., Low code platforms, AI, UX, integrations, App Engine Information Technology, etc.), along with deep product expertise, innovation, and knowledge capital to our customers and partners.

• Support pre‑sales activities like conducting sales presentations, leading solutioning/scoping discussions/workshops, estimating implementation engagement efforts in partnership with Services Account Executives, Solution Sales Executives/Consultants, Sales Account Executives, and Partner Sales Organizations
• Be a lead member of an overall engagement project team focused on delivering successful and substantive customer outcomes, focused on inter‑connectivity between Workflow applications and a Customer’s technology landscape, while informing customer on governance best practices
• Interact with senior leadership or even CXO roles to support discussions related to their implementation roadmap and change management best practices for implementing applications within a Workflow
• Design solutions using a Workflow’s Solutions for common customer use cases, publishing those use cases for broader consumption
• Establish mutually beneficial relationships with a Workflow’s product owners and stakeholders, to promote awareness of Workflow Solutions capabilities and roadmaps
• Lead office hours, formal presentations, webinars and other learning events tailored to field delivery stakeholders (advisory, delivery, GTM, etc.) to showcase customer use cases and successes
• Promote continuous improvement practices for delivery/engagement materials in partnership with related Customer & Partner…