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The Senior Platform Innovation Lead is responsible for driving the strategic evolution of the ServiceNow platform by identifying, validating, and operationalizing advanced capabilities that deliver measurable business value. This role focuses on translating emerging technologies-including AI, automation, predictive intelligence, integrations, and analytics-into practical, scalable solutions with clear outcomes.

Operating at the intersection of strategy, technology, and value realization, this role ensures innovation efforts move beyond exploration into adoption and measurable impact. The position partners closely with product, architecture, engineering, and operations teams to embed innovation into the core platform roadmap and delivery model.

This role is distinct in that it:

• Focuses on what is possible and valuable, rather than how solutions are built

• Prioritizes future capabilities and strategic evolution, not current demand execution

• Emphasizes use cases, outcomes, and adoption, not technical implementation

Success requires disciplined focus on:

• Value over novelty

• Adoption over experimentation

• Outcomes over activity

Kiewit Technology Group builds solutions to enable and support our company's expansive operations. Our mission is to deliver project schedule and cost certainty by employing technology designed by and for the construction industry. Our team utilizes systems and tools that manage every part of Kiewit's business and the project lifecycle to improve planning and day-to-day execution in the field. We give our people real-time data to make faster, smarter decisions. 

This is a full time in office role located on our LaVista, NE campus. 

The Senior Platform Innovation Lead drives the strategic evolution of the ServiceNow platform by identifying, validating, and operationalizing advanced capabilities that deliver measurable business value. The role translates emerging technologies-AI, automation, predictive intelligence, integrations, and analytics-into practical, scalable solutions with clear outcomes. Operating at the intersection of strategy, technology, and value realization, this position ensures innovation moves beyond exploration into adoption and impact. The role partners with product, architecture, engineering, and operations to embed innovation into the platform roadmap.

• Define and maintain a ServiceNow innovation roadmap aligned with enterprise strategy

• Identify and prioritize highvalue opportunities across AI/GenAI, predictive intelligence, workflow automation, and analytics

• Ensure initiatives align with business priorities and platform direction

• Partner with Product and Architecture to integrate innovation into the core roadmap

• Evaluate and operationalize AIdriven workflows, predictive models, and machinelearning use cases

• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve decisionmaking, and enhance user experience

• Ensure solutions are scalable, sustainable, and widely adopted

• Define highimpact use cases tied to measurable outcomes

• Build business cases and ROI models to support prioritization

• Evaluate initiatives based on value potential, feasibility, and adoption likelihood

• Ensure all innovation efforts have clear value hypotheses and measurable results

• Identify and drive strategic integrations (ERP, HRIS, security platforms)

• Partner with Architecture to define scalable integration patterns

• Ensure integrations support enterprise strategy and longterm sustainability

• Lead pilot programs and proofs of concept

• Validate business value, user adoption, and technical feasibility

• Transition successful pilots into the product backlog or standardized capabilities

• Ensure efficient movement from concept to production

• Establish responsible innovation practices, especially for AI and automation

• Ensure alignment with architecture standards, security, and data privacy

• Define guardrails for AI usage and automation decisionmaking

• Balance innovation speed with risk management

• Collaborate across platform roles to ensure successful adoption

• Feed validated opportunities into Product Management

• Partner with Architecture for feasibility and alignment

• Guide Engineering on emerging patterns

• Enable Customer Success/Business Analysis to drive adoption

• Align with Operations for stable rollout

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years of handson experience with ServiceNow operations and systems administration, including recent work within the past 4 years

• Strong knowledge of the ServiceNow platform, modules, and ecosystem

• Experience with AI and machinelearning concepts (practical application, not datascience depth)

• Background in automation strategy, workflow optimization, and enterprise integrations

• Ability to translate technical capabilities into clear business value

• Skilled in developing business cases, ROI models, and valuerealization frameworks

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority

• Strong strategic thinking paired with an executionfocused mindset

• Excellent communication skills across both technical and business audiences

Success in this role is measured by outcomes, not activity:

• Demonstrated ROI from implemented innovations

• Reduction in manual effort and operational cost

• High adoption of new capabilities

• Increased platform utilization across the enterprise

• Percentage of processes successfully automated

• Improvements in cycle time, efficiency, and throughput

• Pilot solutions consistently transitioned into scalable production capabilities

• Delivery of stable, nonexperimental, enterpriseready solutions #LI-AK1