Customer Advocate Manager

ServiceNow • Santa Clara, CA

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About The Position

The Customer Advocate Manager is a field-facing individual contributor who serves as the customer's champion during complex delivery challenges and escalations. This role bridges the gap between customer outcomes and internal ServiceNow execution, ensuring that high-impact delivery blockers are resolved through cross-functional coordination while maintaining unwavering focus on customer success, trust restoration, and accelerated adoption. The Customer Advocate Manager protects customer relationships, go-live outcomes, and renewal value by rapidly mobilizing the right resources, translating technical complexity into business clarity, and ensuring customers feel heard, supported, and confident throughout challenging delivery scenarios. This role converts escalation experiences into opportunities for deeper customer partnership and systemic delivery improvements.

Requirements

• 6–10+ years in SaaS implementation, Customer Success delivery, Solution Architecture, Technical Consulting, or Customer Advocacy roles.
• Proven experience managing complex enterprise implementations and multi-workstream programs with customer-facing accountability.
• Strong track record in escalation environments, crisis management, or multi-party resolution scenarios where customer trust was at risk.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills (customer, partner, internal C-level).
• Ability to influence without formal authority and build trust rapidly during high-stress situations.
• High emotional intelligence with capacity to remain calm, empathetic, and solution-focused under pressure.
• Strong problem decomposition, hypothesis-driven analysis, and ability to simplify complexity for non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to balance customer advocacy with internal ServiceNow business considerations (scope, commercials, product constraints).

Nice To Haves

• Prior customer-facing roles with P&L responsibility, renewal accountability, or customer health ownership.
• Experience working in SI/Partner ecosystems or multi-party delivery environments.
• Industry vertical expertise (Healthcare, Federal, Financial Services, Manufacturing) with understanding of regulatory nuances (PHI, FedRAMP, PCI, SOC).
• Background in Sales/SE or pre-sales risk qualification that bridges commercial and delivery perspectives.
• Change management or organizational transformation experience in enterprise technology deployments.
• Deep understanding of ServiceNow platform architecture, integrations, workflows, scripting, performance, and data models.
• Familiarity with at least two major workflow areas (ITx, SPM, SecOps/Risk, HRSD/Employee, Healthcare, GenAI).
• Knowledge of delivery lifecycle (SOW → design → build → UAT/OAT → cutover → go-live) and common failure modes at each phase.
• Working knowledge of NowCreate or similar phase-based delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Customer Advocate Manager and single point of accountability during high-impact delivery escalations.
• Establish trust and executive transparency with customers experiencing delivery challenges, ensuring they feel supported and informed throughout resolution.
• Translate technical blockers, platform constraints, and delivery risks into clear business impact and mitigation strategies for customer stakeholders.
• Facilitate customer alignment and expectation management during high-risk delivery scenarios, balancing urgency with realistic resolution paths.
• Mobilize and coordinate resources across Delivery, Product, Engineering, Support, Impact, Sales, and Partners to drive rapid resolution without direct personnel authority.
• Lead triage, prioritization, severity classification, and action tracking for multi-workstream escalations with customer timeline protection as the north star.
• Surface customer impact, adoption risks, and renewal considerations to ensure business context drives technical decision-making.
• Participate in customer-facing escalation calls, technical deep-dives, and executive briefings with focus on transparency and confidence-building.
• Drive day-to-day escalation management through structured RCA (Root Cause Analysis), technical triage, and architectural evaluation.
• Identify and assess technical blockers, integration patterns, data issues, platform constraints, and design decisions impacting customer timelines.
• Evaluate alternative solution paths, workaround strategies, and change-order implications with customer business continuity in mind.
• Document escalation scenarios, resolution paths, and customer commitments to maintain accountability and closure.
• Identify delivery red flags and emerging risks before they escalate, working proactively with delivery teams to course-correct.
• Establish clear escalation intake via CRIR (Critical Risk Intake Request) with rapid triage and prioritization protocols.
• Monitor delivery health signals across assigned accounts or industry verticals, flagging patterns that threaten customer outcomes.
• Convert resolved escalations into reusable playbooks, patterns, knowledge articles, and reference architectures that prevent future customer pain.
• Feed lessons learned back into NowCreate methodology, SOW templates, risk assumptions, estimation models, and enablement content.
• Provide structured inputs to Product roadmap reviews, defect prioritization, partner enablement, and delivery onboarding improvements.
• Assist with partner ecosystem uplift by identifying repeat escalation patterns and coaching on customer engagement best practices.

Benefits

• health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed