About the Position

Principal, AI Deployment Strategist, FDE

Employment Type: Full-time
Work Persona: Flexible or Remote
Region: AMS - North America and Canada

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone-freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow-helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

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About the Role

We're hiring a Principal, AI Deployment Strategy to own where the FDE organization deploys its talent for maximum impact. This role sits at the seam between our portfolio of engagements, our global capacity, and our critical GTM, sales, and product relationships. You'll calibrate how we allocate FDE resources against the highest-leverage customer, product, and market opportunities. This is a strategist-operator role, not a coordinator's - every deployment decision, every capacity constraint, every scale path is yours to solve at an expert caliber. The right person has lived across GTM, value technical value, and delivery, has the executive presence to hold a room with senior sales and product leadership.

Responsibilities

FDE Global Deployment & Portfolio Strategy
- Own the global FDE portfolio and allocation strategy.
- Work with regional leadership, Geo Presidents, and SVP/GTM to calibrate where FDE delivers the most impact on revenue, product signal, and customer reference value.
- Run the investment thesis that positions the FDE team in the highest-conviction customer, product, and GTM moments.
- Navigate the competing priorities across regions, portfolios, and strategic accounts and make the calls that maximize team impact globally, not just locally.
FDE Investment Strategy & ROI Operations
- Treat every FDE engagement as an investment. Approve only work tied to a clear strategic imperative or commercial outcome.
- Set approval criteria that hold up under CFO scrutiny. Lock scope, success criteria, and the target outcome before work starts, then track every engagement through to the result.
- Prove the return. Measure the renewals, net-new ACV, consumption, and expansion influenced per FDE-week, by engagement type, region, and industry. Make sure every value case clears its cost to serve. Use the results to steer where FDE deploys next and when to scale headcount or extend through partner capacity.
Value Velocity & Build Economics
- Compress the time from use case identification to value defined, aligned to token burn, and executive-signed-off.
- Build the repeatable playbook that gets engagements from "interesting problem" to "approved investment with quantified outcomes" in a fraction of the current cycle.
- Scale that playbook across the portfolio so every FDE engagement benefits from the same velocity and rigor, regardless of region or industry.
Evolving Initiatives & Scale Path Orchestration
- Stay close to what's working in the portfolio and what's not. Own the emerging initiatives that define FDE's next frontier - agentic use cases, go-to-market motions, industry verticals, platform capabilities - and build the scale paths that turn early wins into portfolio-wide capability.
- Recognize when an initiative is ready to scale, when it needs more signal, and when it should be archived.
- Define and manage the partner motion that extends FDE reach without diluting caliber. Build the vetting standards, engagement model, and guardrails that let tier-1 SIs and specialist partners deliver on FDE-adjacent work under FDE brand and quality standards.
Executive Narrative & Senior Relationship Alignment
- Drive how the FDE impact shows up at the highest altitudes - board narratives, Financial Analyst Day, C-suite QBRs, marquee customer references.
- Own the throughline from raw deployment and build outcomes to the story that moves markets, analysts, and pipeline.
The Charter Isn't Fixed - It's Ever-Evolving
- The AI market shifts week to week. What resonated with customers last quarter may be table stakes today, and what's not working needs to be killed fast.
- Stay close enough to the field to read those signals in real time, and move mountains internally to make sure the team is leaning into what's landing and pulling back from what isn't.
- Pattern-match across the portfolio, find the highest-leverage deployment decision in any given week, and go solve it at an expert level.
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed is the price of entry.

Requirements

Experience: 12+ years of experience spanning AI GTM, applied AI or technical solutioning, management consulting, or strategic delivery in a Fortune 500 environment.
Track Record: A track record of personally owning complex, multi-stakeholder GTM and deployment decisions with C-suite and senior executive partners. Ownership - not coordination.
Technical Depth: Demonstrated fluency in agentic AI, LLM-based systems, or applied AI builds. Enough technical depth to challenge scope, pressure-test architecture, and credibly engage customer and internal engineering leadership.
Frameworks & Models: Experience designing and scaling commercial frameworks, capacity models, or strategic allocation constructs that have held up under CFO and procurement scrutiny.
Portfolio Management: A history of managing portfolios or programs that have scaled beyond your individual reach. Resource allocation decisions that moved the needle across a region or function.
Judgment: The judgment to know which deployment decision in the portfolio deserves your time this quarter, and the operating instinct to go solve it without waiting for a directive.

We Offer

Base Pay: $221,200 - $387,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits.
Health Plans: Including flexible spending accounts.
Retirement: 401(k) Plan with company match.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP): Matching donations.
Time Away: Flexible time away plan and family leave programs.

Additional Information

Work Personas

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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Principal, AI Deployment Strategist, FDE

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