ServiceNow Project Manager

System One; Merrifield (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Spending accounts

Life insurance

Voluntary plans

401(k) plan

Job summary

System One, Inc. seeks an experienced ServiceNow Project Manager to lead high-visibility initiatives in a remote capacity. You will drive governance, coordinate multiple cross-functional teams, and translate technical progress into concise business narratives.

The role requires a strong background in program management, governance, and executive communication, with PMP certification preferred. You will partner with initiative owners to deliver measurable outcomes and maintain a single, trusted

Qualifications

• Demonstrated project or program management experience on complex, highly visible technology initiatives.
• Experience communicating delivery information to senior leaders at the executive level.
• Strong governance cadences, project controls, status reporting, backlog visibility, and accountability mechanisms.
• Experience coordinating initiatives across multiple technical and business teams.
• Ability to translate technical content into concise leadership narratives.
• Experience facilitating governance meetings and leadership reviews.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management leadership across high-visibility ServiceNow strategic initiatives and continuous-improvement efforts.
• Establish clear objectives, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Translate broad leadership objectives into actionable work plans from strategy through execution.
• Maintain an integrated view across multiple ServiceNow initiatives.
• Facilitate working sessions to move teams toward clear outcomes and decisions.
• Identify delivery gaps, ownership issues, and dependencies needing leadership attention.
• Drive follow-through and accountability for actions and objectives.
• Keep the initiative backlog organized and visible across teams.
• Track governance metrics, risks, and decisions for executive reviews.
• Connect backlog items to strategic priorities, value, and leadership decisions.
• Support prioritization discussions when capacity or competing initiatives exist.
• Develop executive-ready status materials with ServiceNow leaders and SMEs.

Skills

Project management

Executive communication

Governance cadence

Backlog visibility

RAID management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

PMP certification

Tools

ServiceNow

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Title: ServiceNow Project Manager
Type: Contract
Work Model: Remote

Responsibilities

• Provide project management leadership across high-visibility ServiceNow strategic initiatives and continuous-improvement efforts.
• Establish clear objectives, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
• Translate broad leadership objectives into actionable work plans and maintain visibility from strategy through execution.
• Maintain an integrated view across multiple ServiceNow initiatives rather than managing each effort in isolation.
• Facilitate working sessions that move teams from discussion toward clear outcomes, owners, actions, and decisions.
• Identify delivery gaps, unclear ownership, competing priorities, and dependencies requiring leadership attention.
• Drive follow-through and accountability for committed actions and objectives.
• Help leaders organize and maintain the strategic initiative and continuous-improvement backlog.
• Establish visibility into what is committed, in progress, blocked, and recommended for prioritization next.
• Partner with initiative owners to define measurable outcomes and determine when work is complete.
• Connect backlog items to strategic priorities, expected value, dependencies, risks, and leadership decisions.
• Support prioritization discussions when capacity or competing initiatives require tradeoffs.
• Maintain action and decision tracking so governance commitments translate into execution.
• Coordinate preparation for recurring executive governance and leadership reviews.
• Develop and maintain concise, executive-ready status materials with ServiceNow leaders and subject-matter experts.
• Translate complex technical and operational information into clear narratives focused on business value, delivery progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions required, backlog priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish a structured preparation cadence for content collection, owner alignment, quality review, and presenter readiness.
• Work with presenters to ensure ownership of content and readiness to communicate decisions, risks, and outcomes.
• Build trusted working relationships with ServiceNow platform leadership, managers, technical SMEs, business stakeholders, vendors, and enterprise partners.
• Coordinate across teams where work spans organizational or platform boundaries.
• Ensure subject-matter experts remain accountable for their content and outcomes while the Project Manager provides the structure that keeps the overall effort moving.
• Facilitate alignment when teams have different priorities, perspectives, or definitions of success.
• Distinguish issues requiring working-team resolution from those requiring leadership escalation or governance decisions.
• Bring the appropriate stakeholders together to resolve cross-functional dependencies.
• Maintain visibility into material risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and actions across assigned initiatives.
• Ensure each material item has clear ownership, impact, target resolution, and escalation path.
• Surface potential delivery or governance concerns early rather than waiting for executive reporting cycles.
• Prepare leadership with the context and options necessary to make decisions.
• Track decisions through completion and ensure resulting actions are reflected in plans and backlogs.
• Leaders have one reliable view of priorities, progress, backlog, risks, and decisions.
• Initiative owners understand their commitments and are prepared for governance discussions.
• Executive materials tell a concise business story rather than simply reporting activity.
• Metrics and value statements are supportable before reaching senior leadership.
• Cross-functional dependencies are surfaced early.
• Decisions from governance meetings translate into owned actions.
• Continuous-improvement work remains organized and visible as priorities evolve.
• ServiceNow leaders can focus on leading the platform and making decisions while the Project Manager provides coordination and delivery structure.

Requirements

• Demonstrated project or program management experience supporting complex, highly visible technology initiatives.
• Experience working directly with senior leaders and translating detailed delivery information into executive-level communication.
• Strong experience establishing governance cadences, project controls, status reporting, backlog visibility, and accountability mechanisms.
• Experience coordinating initiatives across multiple technical and business teams.
• Demonstrated ability to organize work into clear plans, ownership, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong PowerPoint and executive presentation skills, including the ability to turn technical content into concise leadership narratives.
• Experience facilitating working sessions, leadership reviews, and governance meetings.
• Strong understanding of RAID management, dependency management, decision tracking, prioritization, and delivery governance.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow, ServiceNow platform teams, or enterprise ServiceNow initiatives.
• Experience supporting ServiceNow governance, platform modernization, automation, AI/Now Assist, CMDB, Service Mapping, demand management, or similar platform initiatives.
• PMP certification.
• Experience operating in an Agile, product, portfolio, or hybrid delivery environment.
• This role is best suited for someone who is comfortable operating in the gray.
• The ideal candidate does not need every requirement handed to them before getting started.
• They can enter a complex environment, understand what leadership is trying to accomplish, create structure around the work, identify what is missing, connect the appropriate people, and drive the effort toward a clear outcome.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including

• medical
• dental
• vision
• spending accounts
• life insurance
• voluntary plans
• participation in a 401(k) plan

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.