Senior Software Asset Management Strategist

U.S. Bank; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 98,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Software Asset Management Analyst to manage a portfolio of enterprise software publishers. Responsibilities include licensing, compliance, entitlement management, and optimization in a large tech environment.

You will partner with technology owners, engineering teams, governance, and vendors, using ServiceNow SAM Pro to evaluate positions, support audits, and drive cost reductions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT Asset Management experience in a large or complex enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of direct Software Asset Management experience.
• Hands-on experience with ServiceNow SAM Pro.
• Strong understanding of software licensing, compliance, entitlements, consumption, and software asset lifecycle management.
• Experience managing or supporting enterprise software publisher portfolios.
• Experience identifying and remediating software licensing and compliance risks.
• Experience reconciling software entitlement, inventory, and consumption data.
• Experience supporting software governance, audit, risk, or control activities.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with technical owners, engineering teams, Product Owners, operational teams, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end software asset lifecycle of assigned enterprise software portfolios.
• Monitor software entitlements, inventory, deployment, and consumption to maintain accurate licensing positions.
• Identify and remediate software compliance gaps, overdeployment risks, underutilized licenses, and data discrepancies.
• Analyze software usage and provide recommendations related to compliance, forecasting, renewals, optimization, and cost control.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned software publishers and advise stakeholders on licensing requirements and best practices.
• Partner with technical owners, Product Owners, engineering teams, operations teams, governance partners, finance teams, and software vendors.
• Support software audits, risk assessments, control activities, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead or participate in software rationalization, optimization, renewal, and end-of-life initiatives.
• Investigate and resolve entitlement, inventory, consumption, and software asset data quality issues.
• Collaborate with operational teams responsible for software requests, purchasing, provisioning, inventory management, and retirement.
• Improve SAM processes, tooling, documentation, controls, and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in enterprise initiatives affecting software licensing, asset management, or entitlement tracking.
• Provide reporting and analysis to technology leaders and other key stakeholders.

Skills

IT Asset Management

Software Asset Management

Licensing & Compliance

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

ServiceNow SAM Pro

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Software Asset Management Analyst to manage a portfolio of enterprise software publishers. Responsibilities include licensing, compliance, entitlement management, and optimization in a large tech environment.

You will partner with technology owners, engineering teams, governance, and vendors, using ServiceNow SAM Pro to evaluate positions, support audits, and drive cost reductions.