Manager, Product Design, Customer & Partner Experience

About the role

The Customer & Partner Experience team within ServiceNow is seeking a hands-on player/coach to lead the design of digital experiences for Customers and Partners. This role requires a deep understanding of user needs and the ability to collaborate effectively with product management and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of UX designers, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance design culture.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and expectations for the team, ensuring alignment with product vision, company strategy, and user needs.
• Guide designers through the full product lifecycle - from research and ideation to prototyping, testing, and delivery - while promoting best practices in UX design.
• Provide regular feedback, coaching, and career development opportunities to grow individual skills and team capabilities.
• Ensure effective collaboration between designers, product managers, engineers, researchers to deliver cohesive, user-centered solutions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management and engineering, from strategy definition, release planning, product architecture through tactical execution of product roadmaps.
• Oversee the team’s use of Design Systems, encouraging consistency and scalability while driving contributions to system evolution.
• Empower the team to distill complex problems into actionable design goals, guiding them through rapid iterations and informed decision-making.
• Promote knowledge sharing and alignment across distributed design teams to strengthen impact and efficiency.
• Deliver clear, compelling presentations to executives and key stakeholders that articulate the UX vision, product strategy, and design rationale.
• Represent the design team in cross-functional leadership meetings, advocating for user needs and experience quality.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing people and/or leading design teams
• 8+ years of experience in UX Design and/or Interaction Design field
• Experience in integrating AI into work processes, driving decision-making, and using AI to solve problems
• Strong skills and experience in Enterprise Design or for CRM products
• A portfolio of work samples representing your work and approach
• Ability to understand and distill complex problems into clean solutions
• Excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute within a multi-functional and multi-disciplined team