Principal Customer Success Executive

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow seeks a Principal Customer Success Executive to own post-sale relationships with strategic Impact accounts, driving retention and platform value across renewal and up-/cross-sell.

You will partner with C-suite stakeholders, lead complex transformations, align delivery with governance standards, mentor teams, and identify expansion opportunities while shaping executive-level customer strategies in a global, hybrid delivery model.

Qualifications

• Experience leveraging AI to improve work processes and decision-making.
• Proven ability to translate corporate strategy into client outcomes using ServiceNow.
• 15+ years in client-facing roles focusing on account management, consulting, or transformation.
• Experience with IT strategy, governance, and service management disciplines.
• Ability to guide senior stakeholders and drive strategic value for complex customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-complexity transformations for strategic customers and ensure governance alignment.
• Identify services opportunities via roadmaps, value blueprints and adoption analysis.
• Partner with Impact team members to create executive-ready customer narratives.
• Shape customer strategy with senior executives and align delivery to market demands.
• Standardize delivery methodologies and ensure governance and quality standards.
• Mentor other Customer Success resources on transformation best practices.
• Identify risks and take steps to prevent churn; collaborate with Sales on adoption plans.
• Provide governance guidance and help customers implement proper models.

Skills

AI strategy

Executive-level collaboration

Client relationship leadership

IT governance

IT strategy planning

IT project delivery

AI ethics & design

Job 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

As a trusted C-Suite / executive level advisor on ServiceNow offerings, the Principal Customer Success Executive (PCSE) owns the post-sale customer relationship, aiming to increase customer satisfaction and drive retention through Impact delivery. Principal CSEs are experienced individuals who bring a consultative, problem-solving approach to partnering with senior customer stakeholders to derive value from our platforms. They demonstrate a strong understanding of customer’s industry and specific business strategies, driving alignment between these factors and what ServiceNow can offer to enable better business outcomes for their customers. This role drives business transformation by maximizing the long-term strategic value of ServiceNow and ensuring that every aspect of the customer’s platform and capability are ready for expansion.

They provide strategic direction and mentorship to both customers and ServiceNow teams managing complex, multi-workstream programs. They play a pivotal role in resolving escalations and mitigating risks, ensuring adoption and usage is maintained at healthy levels. Principal CSEs focus on ensuring the customer recognizes the value of the ServiceNow Platform at all levels and stages, facilitating a smooth path to both renewal and up- and cross-sell.

Overall, Principal CSEs are responsible for fostering the relationship with C-suite level stakeholders in a smaller number of strategically important Impact accounts, with the aim of increasing customer satisfaction and driving retention and upgrades, where applicable.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead high-complexity transformations in our largest and most strategic customers, ensuring all ServiceNow Customer Excellence roles align and deliver in accordance with governance frameworks, customer objectives, and organizational priorities; ultimately chaperoning Impact value management and demonstrating strategic oversight.
• Proactively identify professional services pipeline opportunities through product capabilities road mapping, value blueprints and adoption analysis, providing pre-sales support for funnel opportunities as requested.
• Partner with Impact team members (e.g., Customer Success Managers) leveraging the joint visibility of customer insights to create executive-ready narratives.
• Work with senior executives to shape and influence customer organizational strategy by identifying emerging trends, refining best practices, and aligning delivery approaches with evolving market demands, and providing industry-specific thought leadership.
• Drive operational consistency and excellence by standardizing delivery methodologies and ensuring adherence to governance and quality standards, interfacing with Delivery as required.
• Establish relationships with ServiceNow leaders, advocating for product evolution based on customer insights, and mentoring other Customer Success resources on transformation best practices.
• Identify areas of risk and take steps to prevent customer or revenue churn.
• Work closely with Sales Teams to define and execute product adoption and customer retention plans.
• Provide prescriptive guidance on internal project/program governance and help the customer create the appropriate governance models and ensure adherence.
• Help the customer identify incidents where contractual SLAs were missed and take necessary action.
• Improve overall customer satisfaction, as well as the satisfaction of their internal customers.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Significant experience collaborating with senior IT and business leaders, with a track record of successfully translating corporate strategy/objectives with the applied use of ServiceNow technology in the context of the client’s environment.
• Minimum 15+ years in client-facing roles with a focus on account management, consulting, or transformation leadership. Experience in executive-level leadership roles, with a proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving strategic outcomes, is strongly preferred.
• Experience in any of the following critical subject areas, with a demonstrated history delivering consulting services:
  • IT Strategy and Planning
  • IT Operations and Management
  • Human Resources
  • Security Operations
  • Customer Service Management
  • IT Processes
  • IT Governance
  • IT Portfolio, Program and Project Management
  • IT Project Delivery (SDLC)
• Experience with project problem diagnosis, solution development, client communications, facilitation of decision making, documentation, managing client expectations, and team leadership.
• Independently leverages AI to optimize workflows, tailor customer solutions, and inform strategic decisions.
• Articulates AI system design, ethical implications, and platform use cases clearly, guiding peers and stakeholders in responsible, value-driven AI adoption.

Additional Information

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

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