Federal Government CTO

Company Description
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.
Job Description
Role Overview
As the connective tissue across ServiceNow's Federal Government & Partner Ecosystem business, this role drives growth by shaping, enabling and orchestrating a high-performing public sector customer and partner ecosystem.
Operating as a Federal Government CTO, you will bring business development and deep domain expertise, trusted relationships and executive-level influence to help Australian Federal Government agencies accelerate digital transformation with ServiceNow at the core.
This role works horizontally across internal teams, partners, and government stakeholders-scaling impact through relationships, leveraging influence, coordination and thought leadership rather than direct oversight.
What you get to do in this role:
1. Market Influence & Thought Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior government leaders, shaping conversations around digital transformation, platform strategy, and modern government operations.
• Represent ServiceNow at industry forums, roundtables, and policy discussions, elevating our position as a strategic partner to government.
• Help strategically define and influence Federal digital transformation narratives where ServiceNow and our partners play a leading role.

2. Government Stakeholder & Customer Relationships

• Build and sustain deep, multi-tiered relationships across assigned Federal customers-from delivery and IT leaders through to CIO, CTO, and senior executive levels.
• Provide strategic guidance aligned to agency priorities, policy cycles, and whole-of-government initiatives.
• Be a trusted escalation point and strategic sounding board for complex, high-profile government engagements.

3. Partner Strategy & Ecosystem Development

• Identify, onboard, and grow strategic partnerships across systems integrators, local consultancies, and specialist public sector providers.
• Design and execute joint go-to-market motions aligned to Federal priorities and ServiceNow differentiation.
• Influence partner sales, delivery, and capability investment to support shared success and long-term growth.

4. Internal Coordination & Orchestration

• Serve as the central point of coordination across Sales, Alliances, Inspire Value, Marketing, Solution Consulting, Legal, and Government Affairs.
• Ensure Federal GTM strategy is clearly understood, aligned, and executed across teams.
• Focus partners and internal teams on where we can differentiate, add value, and win together in Federal Government.

5. Operational Execution & Governance

• Lead regular internal and partner account reviews, pipeline health checks, and co-sell activities.
• Support public sector compliance requirements, procurement frameworks, and joint business planning.
• Bring structure, rhythm, and clarity to complex, multi-party Federal engagements.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:

• 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.
• 10+ years' experience as a technology officer or in a senior technology leadership role in Government preferred or working with Government.
• Deep understanding of the Australian Federal Government ecosystem, including APS culture, procurement models, and policy cycles.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to leverage influence without authority.
• Proven experience building and scaling outcomes through partner ecosystems and driving impact.
• Comfortable operating autonomously in a matrixed, fast-moving environment.
• National travel as required.

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Additional Information
Work Personas
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Equal Opportunity Employer
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