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ServiceNow is seeking a Customer Success Executive to lead post-sales adoption and strategic success initiatives for its largest enterprise accounts. This role involves partnering with C-level executives to drive business transformation, mitigate risks, and ensure predictable renewals while maximizing the value of ServiceNow's platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale digital transformations, strong governance and execution skills, and a passion for leveraging AI to enhance customer outcomes. As a trusted advisor, you will collaborate with account executives and internal teams to align offerings with customer goals and deliver measurable success metrics. This position demands a strategic, dynamic leader who can thrive in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
I am excited to apply for the Customer Success Executive position at ServiceNow, as your mission to make the world work better deeply resonates with my professional experience.
With over a decade of leading customer success and digital transformation initiatives for enterprise clients, I have consistently partnered with C-level executives to drive adoption, mitigate risk, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
At my previous role, I guided a Fortune 500 account to a 30% increase in platform adoption while achieving a 95% renewal rate, leveraging data-driven insights and cross-functional collaboration to align solutions with strategic goals.
I am particularly drawn to ServiceNow's AI-driven approach and would be thrilled to bring my expertise in governance, value realization, and thought leadership to your team.
Thank you for considering my application; I look forward to the opportunity to contribute to your customers' success.
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In my previous role, I worked with a CIO of a large healthcare provider who was initially skeptical about migrating to a cloud-based platform. I arranged a series of sessions to map their pain points to specific platform capabilities, used ROI models from similar deployments, and invited a peer executive from another industry to share success stories. This helped the CIO understand the strategic impact beyond cost savings, and we eventually secured executive sponsorship and a phased rollout plan.
I start by establishing clear success metrics and health scores, including adoption data and sentiment analysis. I conduct regular business reviews with the customer to identify early signs of dissatisfaction or misalignment. If a risk emerges, I collaborate with the customer and internal teams to create a joint remediation plan, often involving additional training, technical support, or roadmap adjustments. The key is proactive communication and demonstrating accountability.
At my last company, I used AI-powered analytics to segment customers based on usage patterns and predict which were at risk of renewal. This allowed my team to focus interventions on high-risk accounts, reducing churn by 15%. I also championed the use of AI-driven chatbots for routine customer inquiries, freeing our team to focus on strategic engagements. I am passionate about exploring how emerging AI tools can further personalize the customer journey.
I work with Account Executives to jointly review account plans, mapping customer business goals to both current capabilities and upsell opportunities. I share insights from customer health data and executive feedback to identify where additional modules or services could add value. By setting mutual KPIs around expansion and involving sales early in the renewal process, we create a seamless transition from success to growth. This approach consistently helped us exceed expansion targets.
I begin by co-creating a success plan with the customer, defining specific business outcomes, adoption milestones, and technical health indicators. We monitor these through a shared dashboard and conduct quarterly business reviews to track progress. If we fall behind, we adjust the roadmap and resources rather than waiting for the end of the term. Measuring success from the customer's perspective, not just internal KPIs, is essential for long-term partnership.
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
The Customer Success Executive is accountable for the strategic leadership and execution of post-sales adoption and success activities within our most valuable accounts. This position plays a crucial role in driving ServiceNow’s long-term value by accelerating customers’ journey to success, ensuring predictable renewals, and maximizing the impact of ServiceNow across their business transformation initiatives.
As a trusted advisor, you’ll partner with C-level executives, guide seamless delivery of business transformation, and foster collaboration with ServiceNow’s teams and strategic partners.
What You Get to Do in This Role:
- Drive Post-Sales Success: Own and lead the customer’s post-sales transformation, aligning ServiceNow’s offerings to customer goals, and bringing relevant industry thought-leadership to the table. Foster strong relationships with C-Level executives to deliver on business outcomes.
- Collaborate Strategically: Partner with Account Executives to create and execute integrated pre- and post-sales strategies, delivering long-term value for both the customer and ServiceNow. Leverage the right resources at the right time to ensure success.
- Mitigate Risks and Drive Value: Proactively identify potential risks to success and work with the customer and internal teams to develop strategies to overcome them, ensuring a smooth path toward value realization.
- Focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Guide and inspire the Customer Success team to meet critical operational KPIs—adoption, technical health, renewals, customer satisfaction, and expansion. Work closely with customers to align their roadmap and drive new revenue opportunities.
- Foster Strategic Alignment: Build relationships with ServiceNow leaders and consistently incorporate customer feedback to drive continuous improvement. Align business transformation insights with organizational goals to ensure long-term success.
- Advocate for Innovation and Continuous Learning: As a strategic thought leader, drive innovative solutions for our customers, always looking for opportunities to help them achieve their long-term goals. Foster a culture of agility and calculated risk-taking within the team.
- Set Success Metrics and Milestones: Establish clear, measurable success metrics with the customer, and regularly review progress. Refine business transformation plans as needed to ensure milestones are met and value is realized.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience leading large-scale digital business transformations, acting as a trusted advisor to both internal and C-level customer executives. You will be an expert in governance, strategy, value alignment and execution across cross-functional teams and have a track record of delivering scalable, repeatable success. Your passion for driving customer success at an enterprise scale and your ability to work in complex, dynamic environments will be key to your success in this role.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- AI driven: 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.
- Educational Background: BA/BS or equivalent required, Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience: A minimum of 15 years in a management consulting or leadership role at a top-tier consulting firm, program director, or similar positions focused on technology-enabled business transformation (Digital/SaaS/Enterprise Software).
- Transformational Leadership Expertise: Demonstrated success in running large-scale, strategic accounts transformation and exceeding business objectives. Proven track record in building and leading high-performing Customer Success or Consulting teams.
- Business Acumen: Strong experience in identifying and solving complex business problems and aligning solutions with customer business objectives.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: A history of working across multiple functions and driving alignment in large, matrixed environments.
- C-Level Relationships: Strong experience building relationships with C-level business leaders, including within some of the world’s largest enterprises.
- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in rapidly changing environments, adapting strategies to new challenges and opportunities.
- Execution Focus: Ability to create repeatable processes for scalable execution while maintaining a hands-on approach to ensure critical tasks are completed efficiently.
- Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communicator and influencer, with the ability to work effectively across a global organization and foster collaboration at all levels.
- Customer Focus: Deep understanding of customer needs, challenges, and motivations, with a keen ability to address concerns and ensure satisfaction.
- Security Clearance: Ability to obtain baseline security clearance is strongly preferred.
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. Learn more here.
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.
Accommodations
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact globaltalentss@servicenow.com for assistance.
Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
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