Senior Manager, Product Lead - ServiceNow

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Platform Product Lead is responsible for the day‑to‑day ownership, execution, and delivery of the ServiceNow platform, with a particular focus on Now Assist and GenAI‑enabled capabilities. This role reports into the Associate Director, Senior Platform Lead to translate platform strategy into clear roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, and delivered outcomes, ensuring value realization across IT and business stakeholders. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable working with technical teams, business partners, and vendors, and thrives in an environment where clarity, prioritization, and follow‑through are critical to success. Specifically, own and maintain the ServiceNow Development Roadmap and day to day development, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities; translate platform strategy into well‑defined epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria; balance demand across IT, business, and operational stakeholders while maintaining platform integrity. All while orchestrating solutions across ITSM, platform engineering, security, and business teams to ensure smooth delivery and governance of services and projects. The Senior Manager role will drive the operational and program delivery support across technology initiatives and solutions within their platform area. The position will be responsible for overseeing and contributing to the technical execution of the roadmap as well as maintaining and enhancing the existing productions solution in their platform domain.

Core Responsibilities

Platform & Product Ownership

• Own and maintain the ServiceNow Development Roadmap and day to day development, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities
• Translate platform strategy into well‑defined epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Balance demand across IT, business, and operational stakeholders while maintaining platform integrity

Delivery, Execution, and Production Support

• Lead day‑to‑day execution of platform initiatives, including intake, prioritization, UAT coordination, and release readiness
• Facilitate working meetings, triage sessions, and backlog grooming with technical and functional teams
• Track progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions, escalating as needed

Stakeholder & Vendor Coordination

• Orchestrate solutions across ITSM, platform engineering, security, and business teams to ensure smooth delivery of services and projects
• Prepare and deliver clear status updates, readouts, and materials for leadership consumption

Enablement & Adoption

• Partner with platform leadership to refine messaging, demos, and usage guidance for IT and business users
• Help measure and communicate platform value and outcomes

Governance & Quality

• Ensure platform enhancements and changes align with enterprise standards, architectural direction, good documentation practices, and governance processes
• Contribute to continuous improvement of platform operating models, intake processes, and delivery practices

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in platform product ownership, solution ownership, or enterprise systems delivery
• Strong hands‑on experience with ServiceNow (ITSM, platform workflows, or adjacent modules)
• Proven ability to manage complex backlogs and cross‑functional delivery
• Experience working with vendors and system integrators
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for varied audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ServiceNow NowAssist or GenAI‑enabled platforms or automation tools
• Prior work in large‑scale enterprise IT environments
• Familiarity with ITIL‑aligned service management concepts

Educational Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree; preferably, a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or adjacent fields.
• Advanced degree in sciences, business administration, or pharmaceuticals is optimal.

Competencies

• Accountability for Results – Stay focused on key strategic objectives, be accountable for high standards of performance, and take an active role in leading change.
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving – Make decisions considering the long‑term impact to customers, patients, employees, and the business.
• Patient & Customer Centricity – Maintain an ongoing focus on the needs of our customers and/or key stakeholders.
• Impactful Communication – Communicate with logic, clarity, and respect. Influence at all levels to achieve the best results for Otsuka.
• Respectful Collaboration – Seek and value others’ perspectives and strive for diverse partnerships to enhance work toward common goals.
• Empowered Development – Play an active role in professional development as a business imperative.

Compensation

• Minimum $150,034.00 – Maximum $224,250.00, plus incentive opportunity: The range shown represents a typical pay range or starting pay for individuals who are hired in the role to perform in the United States. Other elements may be used to determine actual pay such as the candidate’s job experience, specific skills, and comparison to internal incumbents currently in role. Typically, actual pay will be positioned within the established range, rather than at its minimum or maximum. This information is provided to applicants in accordance with states and local laws.

Application Deadline

• This will be posted for a minimum of 5 business days.

Company Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage
• Company provided basic life, accidental death & dismemberment
• Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement, student loan assistance
• A generous 401(k) match
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid leave programs as well as other company provided benefits
• Come discover more about Otsuka and our benefit offerings; https://www.otsuka-us.com/careers-join-otsuka

Disclaimer

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the people assigned to this position. It is not intended to include every job duty and responsibility specific to the position. Otsuka reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Otsuka is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will be given consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accommodation Request

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation, if you are unable or limited in your ability to apply to this job opening as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting Accommodation Request.

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Contact Information

• Otsuka call center: 800‑363‑5670
• FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: https://www.ic3.gov
• Official Otsuka Career website: https://vhr-otsuka.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External

Company Overview

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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a global healthcare company with the corporate philosophy: “Otsuka–people creating new products for better health worldwide.” In the U.S., Otsuka is comprised of two companies, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc., and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., that share a deep commitment to the development and commercialization of innovative products in the spaces of neuroscience, nephrology, and digital medicine. Driven by our purpose to defy limitation, so that others can too, we have an unwavering belief in doing more and transcending expectations. In going above and beyond—under any circumstances—for patients, families, providers, and for each other. It’s this deep‑rooted dedication that drives us to uncover answers to complex, underserved medical needs, so that patients can push past the limitations of their disease and achieve more than they thought was possible each and every day.

OPDC and OAPI are indirect subsidiaries of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The Otsuka group of companies employed 34,400 people worldwide and had consolidated sales of approximately USD 14.2 billion in 2023. We invite you to explore our open positions for an opportunity to join our 2,200 colleagues in the U.S. whose passion for our mission and pride in our company have earned us certification as a Great Place to Work by the Great Place to Work Institute.