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It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.
Join us to put AI to work for people.
Job Description
**PLEASE NOTE** This role has a minimum of 2 days per week in Santa Clara or San Diego offices requirement.
If you are unable to come into the Santa Clara office a minimum of 2 days per week, please do not apply. Thank you.
The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO)
The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO) delivers world-class, innovative security solutions to reduce risk and protect the company and our customers. We enable our customers to migrate their most sensitive data and workloads to the cloud, accelerating our business so that we are the most trusted SaaS provider. We create an environment where our employees are proud to work and can make a positive impact.
This role exists so Product Security's technical programs land on time. It takes security strategy and turns it into defined workstreams with a credible sequence, then drives them to measured closure, and is technical enough to argue that sequencing and its tradeoffs directly with senior leaders rather than relaying them. This reports directly to the VP of Product Security.
Five areas owned end to end:
- Strategy to workstream translation. Takes strategic direction and ambiguous initiatives and decomposes them into defined workstreams with owners, dependencies, milestones, and a defensible sequence. Owns the "how and in what order," including what must be true before a workstream can start and what gets staged versus run in parallel.
- Technical program delivery. Secure-by-default initiatives, tooling rollouts, and remediation campaigns from intake through closure and measurement. Owns the plan, the sequencing, and the outcome, not just the tracking.
- Cross-team dependency and release coordination. Launches, sequencing, and critical-path management where Product Security gates an engineering ship.
- Engineering-facing delivery escalation. The first stop when security work is blocked or contested. Resolves at the engineering level wherever possible and escalates with a recommendation when it cannot.
Decision rights:
- Decides: how strategy decomposes into workstreams and in what order they run; how individual programs are structured, sequenced, and staged; technical tradeoffs within a program; when a program is complete and what evidence closes it.
- Recommends: prioritization tradeoffs across programs and workstreams; which initiatives to stop, defer, or absorb; where the strategy is not sequence-able as written and needs a scope or timeline change.
Key relationships:
VP, Product Security: escalation path for decisions that require prioritization authority. Not the day-to-day reporting relationship for portfolio status.- Product Security Directors and Team leads: Peers and delivery partners. Programs run through their teams; this role does not direct their employees.
- Engineering partner teams: Internal customers for security work and the primary working relationship day to day.
- Business Operations: Strategy and Business Operations sets strategic direction with the VP and leadership team and owns the operating rhythm, portfolio reporting, and OKR linkage; this role translates that direction into sequenced workstreams and supplies delivery truth back into it. Escalates cross-program conflicts, aging risk, and sequencing infeasibility here for prioritization.
Success at 6, 12, and 24 months:
6 months. Has mapped the assigned programs and their dependencies across engineering and knows where the real constraints sit. Delivery status is reliable enough to report from.- 12 months. Takes net-new, ambiguous security initiatives and shapes them into sequenced, delivered outcomes without a playbook. Sequencing recommendations carry enough credibility that leadership shapes commitments around them before making them externally. Has visibly influenced how security requirements enter the SDLC upstream, with a measurable reduction in downstream remediation load.
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24 months. Takes net-new, ambiguous security initiatives and shapes them into delivered outcomes without a playbook.
Qualifications
Requirements
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry.
- 12 years of technical program or project management, with 3+ in security, product security, or a closely adjacent technical domain. Has independently run multi-team programs from intake to close. Or similar experience plus education
- Hands-on software development background, or enough time embedded with engineering teams to read a codebase, follow an architecture discussion, and challenge an engineering estimate without translation.
- Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous strategic goal and produce a sequenced, resourced delivery plan that stakeholders commit to, including saying when the stated timeline is not achievable.
- Experience in a large-scale product engineering organization shipping continuously at high volume, with the dependency and release complexity that comes with it.
- Demonstrated ability to drive delivery through teams that do not report to them, including holding a release or negotiating an exception under pressure.
- Familiarity with Secure Development Lifecycle frameworks such as NIST 800-218, BSIMM, and Microsoft SDL.
- Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, and CI/CD.
- Bachelor's in a technical or related field (CS, engineering, information security) or equivalent practical experience. Certifications that strengthen: PMP, CISSP, CSM, Security+.
#SecurityJobs
#SecurityJobs
For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of: $190,900 to $334,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer 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.
Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, 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
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact globaltalentss@servicenow.com for assistance.
Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
From Fortune. ©2026 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license.
It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.
Join us to put AI to work for people.
Job Description
**PLEASE NOTE** This role has a minimum of 2 days per week in Santa Clara or San Diego offices requirement.
If you are unable to come into the Santa Clara office a minimum of 2 days per week, please do not apply. Thank you.
The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO)
The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO) delivers world-class, innovative security solutions to reduce risk and protect the company and our customers. We enable our customers to migrate their most sensitive data and workloads to the cloud, accelerating our business so that we are the most trusted SaaS provider. We create an environment where our employees are proud to work and can make a positive impact.
This role exists so Product Security's technical programs land on time. It takes security strategy and turns it into defined workstreams with a credible sequence, then drives them to measured closure, and is technical enough to argue that sequencing and its tradeoffs directly with senior leaders rather than relaying them. This reports directly to the VP of Product Security.
Five areas owned end to end:
- Strategy to workstream translation. Takes strategic direction and ambiguous initiatives and decomposes them into defined workstreams with owners, dependencies, milestones, and a defensible sequence. Owns the "how and in what order," including what must be true before a workstream can start and what gets staged versus run in parallel.
- Technical program delivery. Secure-by-default initiatives, tooling rollouts, and remediation campaigns from intake through closure and measurement. Owns the plan, the sequencing, and the outcome, not just the tracking.
- Cross-team dependency and release coordination. Launches, sequencing, and critical-path management where Product Security gates an engineering ship.
- Engineering-facing delivery escalation. The first stop when security work is blocked or contested. Resolves at the engineering level wherever possible and escalates with a recommendation when it cannot.
Decision rights:
- Decides: how strategy decomposes into workstreams and in what order they run; how individual programs are structured, sequenced, and staged; technical tradeoffs within a program; when a program is complete and what evidence closes it.
- Recommends: prioritization tradeoffs across programs and workstreams; which initiatives to stop, defer, or absorb; where the strategy is not sequence-able as written and needs a scope or timeline change.
Key relationships:
VP, Product Security: escalation path for decisions that require prioritization authority. Not the day-to-day reporting relationship for portfolio status.- Product Security Directors and Team leads: Peers and delivery partners. Programs run through their teams; this role does not direct their employees.
- Engineering partner teams: Internal customers for security work and the primary working relationship day to day.
- Business Operations: Strategy and Business Operations sets strategic direction with the VP and leadership team and owns the operating rhythm, portfolio reporting, and OKR linkage; this role translates that direction into sequenced workstreams and supplies delivery truth back into it. Escalates cross-program conflicts, aging risk, and sequencing infeasibility here for prioritization.
Success at 6, 12, and 24 months:
6 months. Has mapped the assigned programs and their dependencies across engineering and knows where the real constraints sit. Delivery status is reliable enough to report from.- 12 months. Takes net-new, ambiguous security initiatives and shapes them into sequenced, delivered outcomes without a playbook. Sequencing recommendations carry enough credibility that leadership shapes commitments around them before making them externally. Has visibly influenced how security requirements enter the SDLC upstream, with a measurable reduction in downstream remediation load.
-
24 months. Takes net-new, ambiguous security initiatives and shapes them into delivered outcomes without a playbook.
Qualifications
Requirements
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry.
- 12 years of technical program or project management, with 3+ in security, product security, or a closely adjacent technical domain. Has independently run multi-team programs from intake to close. Or similar experience plus education
- Hands-on software development background, or enough time embedded with engineering teams to read a codebase, follow an architecture discussion, and challenge an engineering estimate without translation.
- Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous strategic goal and produce a sequenced, resourced delivery plan that stakeholders commit to, including saying when the stated timeline is not achievable.
- Experience in a large-scale product engineering organization shipping continuously at high volume, with the dependency and release complexity that comes with it.
- Demonstrated ability to drive delivery through teams that do not report to them, including holding a release or negotiating an exception under pressure.
- Familiarity with Secure Development Lifecycle frameworks such as NIST 800-218, BSIMM, and Microsoft SDL.
- Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, and CI/CD.
- Bachelor's in a technical or related field (CS, engineering, information security) or equivalent practical experience. Certifications that strengthen: PMP, CISSP, CSM, Security+.
#SecurityJobs
#SecurityJobs
For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of: $190,900 to $334,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer 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.
Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, 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
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact globaltalentss@servicenow.com for assistance.
Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
From Fortune. ©2026 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote staff technical program manager jobs.
- 8 or more years of technical program management experience across large engineering organizations
- Demonstrated ability to drive complex, multi-team programs from inception through delivery
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, or SAFe frameworks at program or portfolio scale
- Proficiency with program tracking and roadmapping tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Strong systems thinking and ability to manage cross-functional technical dependencies
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Staff Technical Program Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote staff technical program manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sifting through mixed location listings on general boards.
Prove your async communication on paper
Remote hiring managers read your resume and cover letter as a direct test of written clarity. Show that you can communicate program status, risk, and decisions in concise written form, because that is how you will coordinate distributed teams every day on the job.
Document cross-functional programs you have owned
Remote employers want specifics: how many teams you aligned, the technical scope you managed, and the outcomes you drove. Prepare two or three program examples you can describe in a written case-study format before interviews, since remote processes often include written screens.
Name the distributed tools you work in fluently
Remote staff technical program manager roles expect working fluency with async collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence, Notion, and video conferencing platforms. Call out the specific tools you use for roadmap tracking, stakeholder updates, and dependency management so hiring managers can place you immediately.
Remote Staff Technical Program Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote staff technical program manager job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams that rely on asynchronous coordination, since those environments are where remote staff technical program managers do their best work. Remote employers screen heavily for written communication, self-directed roadmap ownership, and the ability to align distributed stakeholders without in-person touchpoints. Demonstrating cross-functional program experience and comfort with async tools like Confluence, Jira, or Notion gives you a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote staff technical program managers?
Remote staff technical program manager roles are posted by Pinterest, Affirm, and GitHub and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software companies, cloud infrastructure firms, and enterprise technology organizations with distributed engineering teams make up the largest share of employers hiring for this role remotely.
Can you get a remote staff technical program manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote staff technical program manager roles at the staff level are competitive and expect demonstrated independence from day one, which makes them harder to land without prior program management experience. Your best path is to build a record of leading cross-functional projects, contribute to open-source or volunteer initiatives you can document, and show concrete examples of coordinating distributed teams or managing ambiguous technical workstreams on your own initiative.
Do you need a degree for remote staff technical program manager jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring at the staff level weigh demonstrated program management results, technical fluency, and leadership impact far more than a specific credential. A portfolio of complex programs you have owned end-to-end, evidence of influencing engineering decisions without direct authority, and familiarity with the technical domains relevant to the company will consistently carry more weight than a degree alone.
Which industries hire the most remote staff technical program managers?
Remote staff technical program manager roles concentrate in Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Those sectors rely on large distributed engineering and product teams that need experienced program managers to coordinate across time zones without a physical headquarters.
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