Senior Manager, Enterprise Search Engineering

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

About Digital Technology:

We're not yesterday's IT department, we're Digital Technology. The world around us keeps changing and so do we. We're redefining what it means to be IT with a mindset centered on transformation, experience, AI-driven automation, innovation, and growth. We're all about delivering delightful, secure customer and employee experiences that accelerate ServiceNow's journey to become the defining enterprise software company of the 21st century. And we love co-creating, using, and highlighting our own products to do it. Ultimately, we strive to make the world work better for our employees and customers—when you work in ServiceNow Digital Technology, you work for them.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineers focused on enterprise search platforms.
• Provide technical leadership on the implementation and optimization of search experiences, especially those powered by ServiceNow's Search framework and other popular search technologies (e.g., ElasticSearch, Solr, Azure Cognitive Search, Amazon Kendra, etc.).
• Drive the design and delivery of search capabilities that improve discoverability, relevance, and performance across enterprise applications.
• Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to align engineering delivery with business goals.
• Establish engineering best practices, ensure code quality, and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for search quality, reliability, and user engagement.
• Mentor engineers and foster career growth through feedback, coaching, and development planning.
• Champion a data-driven and user-first approach to evolving enterprise search solution

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience integrating AI/ML-powered search experiences, semantic search, or large language model–based retrieval systems.
• Experience with search observability, telemetry, and relevance tuning.
• Strong understanding of access control, personalization, and multilingual search within enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience in implementing and optimizing ServiceNow Search capabilities (AI Search, Zing, Search Sources, etc.).
• Practical knowledge of one or more enterprise search platforms such as ElasticSearch, Solr, Coveo, Azure Cognitive Search, or similar.
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions, evaluate trade-offs, and make informed architectural decisions in large-scale systems.
• Experience managing multiple business partners and internal stakeholders, translating their needs into actionable engineering plans.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across product, design, and business functions.
• Track record of delivering enterprise-level search experiences with measurable business impact.
• Exposure to ServiceNow platform development beyond search (e.g., ITSM, ITOM, custom apps)

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Additional Information

Work Personas

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Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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