Director of UX Research, ServiceNow

AI/ML

$181.1-316.9k

+Variable/incentive compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, US
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

ServiceNow

Cloud-based digital workflows for enterprises

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ServiceNow

Cloud-based digital workflows for enterprises

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsProductivitySaaSCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

$181.1-316.9k

+Variable/incentive compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, US
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsProductivitySaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To transform IT to revolutionise the enterprise.

Role

Who you are

  • We are seeking a Director of Research who is passionate about creating empowering and supportive experiences for people at work
  • This is the perfect role for a research executive who is fascinated with the changing world of work, and the evolving needs of businesses digitizing the way they work, while supporting distributed, global teams
  • Experience with enterprise software, technology products, and systems design
  • Experience building digital products that leverage advanced technologies (such as AI, ML, NLU) across varied engagement surfaces including web, mobile, and conversational experiences
  • 5+ years' experience managing a team of managers and/or researchers of varying levels

Desirable

  • Preferred advanced degree (or equivalent experience) in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or other related degrees
  • Expertise in user interface design, usability evaluation techniques, perception, cognition, task analysis, experimental design and statistics
  • Consistent delivery of actionable research insights that shape business and product strategy, and produce successful experiences for global, accessible products
  • Exceptional people and talent skills, with an inspirational leadership style that motivates the team and connects their work to positive impact
  • Strong executive presence, able to evangelize the value of research, present important findings, influence stakeholders, and serve as an ambassador of the ServiceNow brand to external audiences
  • Experience leading with a hybrid (in-office and remote), distributed, global team, and finding creative ways to bring the team together to drive collaboration, relationship building and a strong culture
  • Experience in creating and executing new and innovative research programs, strategies and approaches that help the team scale and have greater impact
  • Experience in evaluating conversational AI designs and/or AI voice assistant technologies

What the job involves

  • You will lead a research organization that is building innovative employee experiences, advanced technology products and revolutionizing digital workflows across the enterprise
  • Businesses know that the employee experience is everything, and they must provide experiences that foster loyalty, collaboration, productivity, and support the employee through their career
  • As a leader you will have a massive impact on how businesses evolve to provide predictive, empowering and productivity-boosting experiences for their employees and technology teams
  • This role leads a research team that uses research, user empathy and understanding to create product experiences that our customers love
  • Our researchers come from a diverse set of skills and backgrounds – HCI, Human Factors, Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Product Market Research, and Behavioral Sciences
  • At ServiceNow, research has a leadership seat at the table, so our team collaborates closely with both product management, engineering, and design from the get-go
  • We embrace representation in and from all professional and personal backgrounds and cultures
  • This diversity inspires passion and creativity among our teams and propels innovation in our products
  • This role leads a UX research team that focuses on delivering AI-driven product experiences that resonate with our customers
  • The individual will own the research program and strategy for this broad and varied product portfolio, partnering with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders
  • As an integral member of our research leadership team, you will grow and mentor an extended research team that is responsible for executing on all aspects of user research (i.e. , planning, execution, analysis, reporting) across the product lifecycle, and communicate research findings in business consumable ways that inform and drive key decisions
  • Build and develop a high performing team of researchers and managers, with a strong culture and user-centric approach, acting as a mentor & manager, ensuring high impact delivery for the team
  • Contribute to shaping culture, operations, talent and strategy across the research org, for a rapidly scaling team and business
  • Partner closely with cross functional leadership in Product, UX and Engineering to influence the strategy and roadmap with user research findings from your team
  • Guide researchers on the design and execution of generative and evaluative, formative, and summative research to support product design and development (including but not limited to ethnography, interviews, surveys, concept testing, and usability studies)
  • Collaborate with research leadership and product stakeholders to set strategic and high impact priorities
  • Partner with Research Operations in resource planning, budget, hiring process and pipeline, research vendor management, process standardization, and tool selection and usage
  • Contribute to team communications; finding creative and compelling ways to present and evangelize research insights throughout the company, to help cultivate a highly informed, more effective, and more empathetic organization
  • Create architectural definitions such as user profiles, business workflows, information architecture and foundational concepts to shape the broader ServiceNow product strategy

Our take

ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations, transforming old, manual ways of working into modern digital workflows. The company was founded in 2004 with a vision to build a cloud-based platform that would enable regular people to route work effectively through the enterprise.

Much as Salesforce enables a company to manage its external clients by keeping a record of all contacts and interactions, ServiceNow promises an internal system to meet the needs of employees. It has succeeded in claiming half the market, setting itself apart from legacy IT service-management software players like BMC Software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cherwell Software and CA Technologies.

The company's success comes from two product traits: simplicity and customisability. ServiceNow's IT tools don't require the IT department to set them up. Once running, they offer a single collection centre for requests, data points and checklists, all of which can in turn be analysed by algorithms to predict needs, flag concerns and measure efficiency.

The company has more than 7500 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 list of the United States' largest corporations. ServiceNow now looks to increase its revenue threefold in upcoming years and has entered into a 5-year partnership plan with Visa, beginning with the launch of a Visa-integrated dispute resolution solution for issuers. The company is prioritising organic growth over mergers and acquisitions, with a target revenue of $15 billion, something which its Visa partnership will no doubt aid in achieving.

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Freddie

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Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Mar 2012

$11m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Feb 2012

$17.9m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $83.8m

Company benefits

  • Commuter benefits
  • Annual learning stipends
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Generous family leave
  • Matched donations
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid volunteer time

Company values

  • Win as a team
  • Innovate and execute
  • Stay hungry and humble
  • Deliver customer success

Company HQ

Santa Clara, CA

Leadership

Fred Luddy

(Chairman Of The Board)

Previously Software Developer at Amdahl Corporation for 4 years and CTO at Peregrine Systems for 13 years.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at ServiceNow

  • Enabling and empowering our people: We use rich learning programmes to equip employees with inclusive mindsets and skills, and we build equitable processes across our entire talent ecosystem
  • Engaging our communities and allies: We make space to listen, share openly and engage in respectful dialogue. We extend into our communities through civic engagement, digital literacy and non‑profit support
  • Building diverse talent and hiring inclusively: We grow stronger together by developing and advancing individual talent and by improving representation at all levels.

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