Principal Strategist

ServiceNow; Riyadh; Hybrid; SAR 449,000 - 563,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader is seeking a seasoned professional for an advisory role focused on digital transformation. The ideal candidate will lead workshops, engage with executives, and provide strategies to enhance customer success using AI methodologies. Successful candidates will have over 10 years of management consulting experience and must excel in building C-Level relationships. This role requires travel up to 40% and offers the flexibility of remote work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience in leveraging AI for work processes.
• 10+ years of experience in management consulting or similar roles.
• Proven leadership in digital transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Engage with executives for digital transformation.
• Lead discovery workshops with customers.
• Document and present insights for customer goals.

Skills

Experience with AI integration

10+ years as a Management consultant

C-Level relationship development

Public speaking and facilitation

Analytical skills

Job description

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:

Customer Advisory

• Engage executives to determine and manage custom industry-aligned digital transformation advisory engagements at select customers, applying ServiceNow methodologies
• Lead discovery workshops with prospective and existing customer leadership and their teams to understand goals and challenges
• Document and present insights and recommended solutions to meet customer goals
• Create high-quality deliverables that communicate strategic agreement, present multi-year roadmaps and document the full business case to justify action
• Communicate and advise in 1:1 and 1: many environments

Sales and Customer Success Advisory

• Work with sales and customer success to help determine account plans and sales strategy for accounts in the region.
• Provide expertise to help assess and prioritize accounts and strategies
• Provide full lifecycle business outcome and value realization advice

Thought leadership

• Identify and lead to the creation of new IP (best practices, white papers, workshops, etc.)
• Improve current methods and frameworks
• Work with and enable the ServiceNow teams on a business consulting approach to sales

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.
• 10+ years of relevant experience as a Management consultant with exposure to cloud technologies or a customer-facing strategy manager with a technology vendor
• Executive / leadership experience working on digital transformation projects or enterprise software deployments preferred
• Experience in a major industry (such as FSI, Telco, Manufacturing, Retail, etc.) is preferred
• Experience developing C-Level relationships with an ability to simplify and communicate complex topics to an audience
• Experience with public speaking, meeting facilitation and white boarding
• Deep customer connections in regions
• High level of executive presence with a humble demeanor
• Analytical and financial experience
• Enjoyment working in a collaborative environment
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the time

Additional Information

Work Personas

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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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