Senior Director, Marketing Technology; MarTech

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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,…