Director, Product Design

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
What you get to do in this role:

• Work collaboratively with our Product teams to deliver great UX that will revolutionize workplace collaboration and productivity for some of the largest companies in the world
• Directly lead and manage 8-10 designers and/or managers
• Change the way people work through design thinking and develop experiences using AI, Machine Learning and Mobile technology
• Oversee a portfolio of products, while acting as a mentor & manager to subordinates.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering from strategic definition, planning, architecture, through tactical execution of the Product Roadmaps
• Work with your peers to ensure a unified and cohesive experience across the ServiceNow ecosystem
• Lead user needs assessment, task analysis and develop user profiles; identify key tasks for user research, competitive analysis and user testing, develop usability plans
• Develop high level task flow content and then use storyboards and other design documents to communicate concepts and vision to others
• Rapidly iterate theoretical task scenarios, navigation map, flow, and state-transition diagrams to document design decisions
• Oversee your team's work: detailed mockups and prototypes and behavior specifications.
• Ensure a consistent experience across the mobile and desktop platforms
• Participate in the development and maintenance of the company Design system to provide examples of core platform components and best practices
• Oversee UI layouts including controls, labels and graphical elements for software on both mobile and desktop platforms with an eye towards experience unification
• Participate in documentation development process such as user experience specifications, testing and evaluation
• Work closely with product management in UX ideation and innovation

Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:

• 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.
• Enterprise product design experience
• An inspiring portfolio representing the process you follow to build insanely great experiences
• Demonstrated experience in defining and/or working with robust design systems
• Demonstration of any accessible projects you have built
• At least 8 years of visual and interaction design, with 5 years of Experience Design or equivalent.
• At least 3+ years of experience managing design teams
• Expert with Sketch, Photoshop, or other design tools
• Ability to do rapid prototyping in Axure, Keynote, Framer, Principle or similar tools
• Ability to understand and distill complex problems into clean solutions.
• Must have strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Must have excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute within a multi-functional and multi-disciplined team
• Obsessed with the relentless pursuit of UX perfection working inside an iterative and agile development environment
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision in a fluid, fast-paced and truly agile environment
• Expected to demonstrate a high level of initiative, good sense of humor, and a "make it work" ethos
• Must be able to travel up to 20% of the year
• Expertise in one or more of the following product spaces: IT Security Management, IT Operations Management, Security Operations, HR Service Delivery, Customer Service Management (CSM), or Finance & Legal
• Experience in creating content and/or designing with compliance to WCAG 2.0/2.1 AA guidelines is a plus

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.
Accommodations
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