ServiceNow Product Owner

To own and transform ServiceNow into Masdar's centralised enterprise workflow and service management platform, driving standardisation, automation, and measurable adoption across IT, HR, Facilities, and Corporate Services, owning the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, governance, and vendor delivery. The ServiceNow Product Manager is accountable for evolving ServiceNow from a traditional IT ticketing tool into a comprehensive digital workflow engine: advancing ITIL and ITOM maturity, centralising service requests securely and compliantly across all business functions, enabling scalable automation and AI-powered virtual agent capabilities (Now Assist / Virtual Agent), and providing clear visibility into adoption and value realisation. The role retains internal ownership of platform direction, architecture standards, and development governance in a multi-vendor delivery model, holding implementation partners accountable to outcome-based SLAs and ensuring Masdar is never dependent on a vendor for platform IP, runbooks, or configuration knowledge. Key Accountabilities : • Own and define the ServiceNow product vision and multi-year roadmap , transitioning from an ITSM tool to Masdar's enterprise workflow and service management platform across IT, HR, Facilities, and Corporate Services. • Manage and prioritize the product backlog by business value, standardization, and automation potential; enforce an Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) adoption-first strategy to minimize customization and technical debt. • Maintain a rolling 3-year platform business case , quantifying the value of ServiceNow expansion and using it to justify roadmap investment decisions to the Director. • Conduct annual ServiceNow platform health assessments, covering technical debt, upgrade readiness, OOTB deviation index, license utilization, an-d integration dependency risks , presenting findings and a remediation roadmap to the Director. • Drive centralization of all service requests into ServiceNow across IT (ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, SecOps), HR Shared Services (HRSD), and Facilities / Corporate Services. • Own and maintain a ServiceNow Function Onboarding Playbook , a standardized process for bringing new business functions onto the platform, covering requirements assessment, process mapping, OOTB configuration, UAT, training, and hyper care. Target onboarding time: 8 12 weeks per function. • Maintain a Shadow Tool Register , tracking all service management, ticketing, and workflow tools operating outside ServiceNow across Masdar and its entities; define and execute a consolidation roadmap to eliminate duplicates within an approved timeline, with quarterly progress reported to the Director. • Partner with Finance to ensure ServiceNow financial management modules or integrations support transparent IT cost allocation and chargeback. • Define a ServiceNow governance model for Masdar's 100%-owned entities , determining which entities share the core instance, which require federated configurations, and how data sovereignty and access controls are managed across entity boundaries. • Lead the evolution of ITIL v4-aligned processes , incident, problem, change, and request management , ensuring ServiceNow drives process discipline, not just ticket logging. • Define and own the CMDB data governance model , including CI ownership by domain, discovery rules, reconciliation processes, and a CMDB accuracy KPI (target: >90% CI accuracy for production systems) • Mature ITOM capabilities , CMDB data quality and governance, discovery and service mapping, event management , focusing on data accuracy and usability, not just tool deployment. • Establish a Problem Management Centre of Excellence , going beyond reactive problem records to proactive trend analysis, identifying systemic failure patterns across the estate, and presenting monthly problem intelligence to the Senior Manager, IT Operations and the Director. • Evolve ServiceNow Event Management as the enterprise event correlation layer , integrating IT monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Dynatrace) and OT alerting systems into a unified event stream, reducing alert noise through correlation rules. • Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor s degree in IT, computer science, or a related field; relevant certifications preferred. • ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) required. • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist ITSM (CIS-ITSM) required. • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist ITOM (CIS-ITOM) required given CMDB and event management mandate. • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist HRSD (CIS-HRSD) desirable given HR expansion mandate. • ITIL v4 Managing Professional or equivalent required. • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent product management certification desirable. Preferred Experience: • 7 10+ years in ServiceNow product ownership or platform leadership, with ITSM transformation / standardization and platform adoption across multiple business functions. • Experience managing ServiceNow in outsourced / vendor-led environments; large, complex organizations preferred. • Demonstrated experience managing ServiceNow implementation partners under outcome-based delivery models. • Experience in the energy, utilities, or asset-intensive sector preferred; familiarity with UAE regulatory environment (NESA, ADIO,DOE) an asset. Job-Specific Skills: • ServiceNow platform ITSM, ITOM, CMDB, HRSD, Virtual Agent, Now Assist, Integration Hub, and platform governance (primary skill area). • ITIL v4 process expertise incident, problem, change, request, and service level management. • Product management backlog prioritization, roadmap governance, business case development, and value realization tracking. • Vendor and license governance outcome-based SLAs, enterprise agreement management, and anti-lock-in practices. • FinOps discipline platform cost allocation, chargeback models, and license utilization optimization. • AI and automation ServiceNow Now Assist/GenAI, Virtual Agent, and AI governance compliance. Strong stakeholder management ability to engage HR, Finance, Facilities, and business unit heads on platform adoption. • Bachelor s degree in IT, computer science, or a related field; relevant certifications preferred. • ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) required. • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist ITSM (CIS-ITSM) required. • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist ITOM (CIS-ITOM) required given CMDB and event management mandate. • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist HRSD (CIS-HRSD) desirable given HR expansion mandate. • ITIL v4 Managing Professional or equivalent required. • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent product management certification desirable. Preferred Experience: • 7 10+ years in ServiceNow product ownership or platform leadership, with ITSM transformation / standardization and platform adoption across multiple business functions. • Experience managing ServiceNow in outsourced / vendor-led environments; large, complex organizations preferred. • Demonstrated experience managing ServiceNow implementation partners under outcome-based delivery models. • Experience in the energy, utilities, or asset-intensive sector preferred; familiarity with UAE regulatory environment (NESA, ADIO,DOE) an asset. Job-Specific Skills: • ServiceNow platform ITSM, ITOM, CMDB, HRSD, Virtual Agent, Now Assist, Integration Hub, and platform governance (primary skill area). • ITIL v4 process expertise incident, problem, change, request, and service level management. • Product management backlog prioritization, roadmap governance, business case development, and value realization tracking. • Vendor and license governance outcome-based SLAs, enterprise agreement management, and anti-lock-in practices. • FinOps discipline platform cost allocation, chargeback models, and license utilization optimization. • AI and automation ServiceNow Now Assist/GenAI, Virtual Agent, and AI governance compliance. Strong stakeholder management ability to engage HR, Finance, Facilities, and business unit heads on platform adoption.