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Senior Director, Marketing Technology (Mar Tech) is responsible for building and operating Service Now’s global Marketing Technology ecosystem as a strategic growth platform—powering buying-group engagement, lifecycle orchestration, and AI-enabled marketing at scale.

This role owns the Mar Tech operating system: defining how platforms, data, workflows, and AI agents work together to enable consistent, compliant, and high-performing marketing execution across regions and teams. The Senior Director leads platform strategy, governance, and enablement while partnering closely with Digital Experience, Activation, Data & Analytics, IT, and Integrated Marketing.

This is a senior leadership role requiring deep technical fluency, strong product thinking, and the ability to operate at the intersection of architecture, governance, and business outcomes

Key Responsibilities

Mar Tech Strategy & Architecture

• Define and own the enterprise Mar Tech architecture, including marketing automation, CDP, identity, orchestration, analytics, and AI enablement layers.
• Translate GTM and Buying Group strategy into system behavior: orchestration logic, data flows, decisioning rules, and activation patterns.
• Maintain a multi-year Mar Tech roadmap aligned to business priorities, platform evolution, and AI capability maturity.

Platform Operations & Enablement

• Lead day-to-day operations of core Mar Tech platforms (e.g., automation, CDP, journey orchestration, CMS/CCMS integrations).
• Establish operational rigor: intake models, SLAs, release management, platform health metrics, and incident management.
• Build enablement programs that ensure marketers, pods, and partners can self-serve effectively within governed guardrails.

AI, Automation & Agent Operations

• Operationalize AI and agent-based workflows across marketing use cases (e.g., journey optimization, content generation, testing, targeting).
• Define “human-in-the-loop” accountability for all AI systems to ensure quality, brand safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Data, Engineering, and IT to scale agent orchestration responsibly across the Mar Tech stack.

Governance, Privacy & Compliance

• Own Mar Tech governance across data privacy, consent management, AI governance, and brand safety.
• Ensure compliance with global regulations (GDPR, CCPA, emerging AI regulations) across all marketing platforms and workflows.
• Establish clear standards for data usage, integrations, vendor access, and third-party activation.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Partnership
• Partner with Digital Experience and Activation leaders to ensure Mar Tech enables end-to-end journeys across owned and paid channels.
• Collaborate with Data & Analytics to ensure clean signal capture, identity resolution, measurement, and closed-loop optimization.
• Act as the senior Mar Tech counterpart to IT/DT on architecture decisions, integrations, security, and scalability.

Key Outcomes & Deliverables

• A scalable, AI-enabled Mar Tech operating system aligned to Buying Groups and lifecycle engagement
• Clear platform ownership, governance models, and decision rights across Marketing and IT
• Improved speed-to-market for campaigns and journeys without sacrificing compliance or quality
• Increased adoption and measurable value realization from Mar Tech investments
• A future-ready foundation for agentic marketing and real-time orchestration

Required Qualifications

Experience & Expertise

• 12+ years of experience in Mar Tech, digital platforms, or marketing systems leadership
• Proven ownership of large-scale Mar Tech ecosystems (automation, CDP, identity, orchestration, analytics)
• Strong understanding of B2B GTM models, Buying Groups, lifecycle marketing, and account-based strategies
• Demonstrated experience operationalizing AI and automation in production marketing environments

Technical & Strategic Skills

• Deep fluency in Mar Tech architecture, data flows, and integration patterns
• Product-oriented mindset: roadmaps, backlogs, adoption metrics, and value measurement
• Strong governance instincts across privacy, AI risk, and brand safety
• Ability to balance enterprise standards with speed and flexibility for execution teams

Leadership Competencies

• Executive presence and the ability to influence across senior stakeholders
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and leading through transformation
• Strong people leadership with experience building and scaling platform teams
• Clear communicator who can translate complex technical systems into business outcome

Work Personas

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Service Now 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.

Accommodations

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