Alliance Sales Executive, Associate Director: ServiceNow: Federal and State & Local

 

About Sales & Strategic Pursuits (S&SP)

EYs Sales & Strategic Pursuits (S&SP) function unites sales leadership, sector insight, technology expertise, and solution depth to drive marketleading growth. As EYs growth catalyst, S&SP shapes and executes integrated gotomarket strategies across priority accounts, industry sectors, and strategic alliancesdelivering differentiated value through a deeply clientcentric culture.

 

The Opportunity

As a ServiceNow Alliance Sales Executive (SN SE), you will operate at the front edge of growth for one of EYs most strategic alliances. This is a true sales hunter rolefocused on originating netnew qualified opportunities, building pipeline, and closing revenue through deep partnership with ServiceNow and direct engagement with Federal and State & Local Government (SLED) clients.

 

You will be a marketfacing, quotacarrying executive seller with deep expertise across the ServiceNow platform and GPS solution portfolio, including Customer Experience (CX), Mission Operations, Case Management, Cyber / Security Operations, and AIenabled workflows. You will proactively create demandidentifying whitespace opportunities, shaping transformative conversations, and positioning ServiceNowpowered EY solutions that address the most complex public sector mission and operational challenges.

 

You will also be expected to embed AIdriven selling into every aspect of your rolehow you prospect, identify patterns, qualify opportunities, orchestrate pursuits, influence buyers, and accelerate timetocloseserving as a model for modern, AIenabled enterprise selling at EY.

 

Key Responsibilities

Sales Origination

• Relentlessly originate netnew pipeline within Federal and SLED accounts by identifying mission gaps, operational pain points, and modernization opportunities
• Drive sales across three core channels:
• Direct client origination
• ServiceNow GPS fieldled cosell motions
• EY account teamled pursuits
• Lead earlystage opportunity identification and qualification, independently shaping pursuits from signal detection through deal maturation

 

ServiceNow Alliance Leadership

• Act as a trusted partner to ServiceNow GPS field teams, building credibility and mindshare across account executives, solution consultants, specialists, and sales leadership
• Evangelize and position EYs ServiceNowpowered GPS offerings, including:
• Constituent and citizen CX transformation
• Mission operations and workflow automation
• Case and program management at scale
• Cybersecurity and Security Operations (SecOps) workflows
• AIenabled and agentic service delivery
• Shape joint gotomarket motions and influence ServiceNow investment toward EYled GPS pursuits

 

Government & Public Sector Impact

• Demonstrate deep understanding of Federal and SLED environments, including funding and appropriations, procurement vehicles, compliance and policy drivers, security constraints, and mission accountability
• Translate ServiceNow platform capabilities into outcomes that resonate with public sector executives, such as:
• Improved constituent and citizen experience (CX)
• Faster, more resilient mission operations
• Scalable case and benefits management
• Integrated cyber and security operations
• Responsible, governed AI adoption at mission scale
• Build trusted executive relationships to position EY as a longterm transformation and orchestration partner

 

AIEnabled Selling & Innovation

• Infuse AI across the full sales lifecycle, including:
• Account and opportunity analytics
• Intelligent prospecting and prioritization
• Pattern recognition across pipeline and buying signals
• AIsupported storytelling, proposal shaping, and pursuit orchestration
• Leveraging agentic and digital sales assistants to accelerate pursuits
• Champion AIenabled EY and ServiceNow GPS solutions, demonstrating technical credibility, governance discipline, and mission impact
• Serve as a role model for modern, AIforward public sector selling at scale

 

Market Leadership & Collaboration

• Deep GPS domain knowledge and ServiceNow workflow platform expertise, with the ability to convert both into enterprisescale government transformations
• Serve as the face of EYs ServiceNow Alliance within GPS, and the face of EY to ServiceNows Federal and SLED leadership
• Envision and activate a multialliance ecosystem, positioning EY as the orchestrator of platforms, partners, and services delivering mission outcomes
• Orchestrate crossserviceline and crossfunctional teams to bring the best of EY to pursuit opportunities
• Influence and coach peers and account teams through market leadershipnot authority alone

 

Skills & Attributes for Success

• Proven sales hunter mindset with persistence, creativity, and urgency
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior government, EY, and ServiceNow leaders
• Comfortable navigating complex, matrixed, alliancedriven environments
• Consultative, missionoriented selling style
• Strategic thinker who connects workflow technology, AI, policy, funding, and mission outcomes
• Data and AIliterate, using insights to shape strategy and storytelling
• Contributes sales expertise during the entire sales lifecycle to include RFPs/proposals
• Continuously brings competitive, market, and partner intelligence to shape win strategies
• Maintains rigorous forecast and pipeline discipline (services and NNACV)
• Ensures opportunities are wellqualified, documented, and executiveready
• Leads pricing, pursuit, and dealshaping discussions in partnership with account and delivery leaders

 

To Qualify, You Must Have

• 10+ years of quotacarrying enterprise sales experience in professional services, technology, or platforms
• 6+ years of ServiceNow sales experience, including cosell and channelled motions
• Demonstrated success originating netnew government business, not purely account coverage
• Direct experience selling to Federal and/or SLED clients
• Deep knowledge of ServiceNow capabilities across:
• CX / CSM and constituent services
• Case & program management
• Mission workflow automation
• Security Operations (SecOps)
• AIenabled and intelligent workflows
• Experience with the broader ServiceNow partner ecosystem and how ServiceNow fits into a multi-vendor landscape
• Big Four or large SI selling experience
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills

 

What We Look For

EY Alliance Sales Executives are growth creators and market shapers. You proactively create demand and shape pursuitshelping government clients reimagine service delivery, mission execution, security, and trust through ServiceNowpowered, AIenabled transformation.

You are digitally fluent, missiondriven, and deeply connected across your clients technology landscapes, elevating conversations from systems and workflows to measurable public outcomes and longterm value.

 

What we offer you
At EY, well develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. Well empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business.  The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $221,410 to $280,070 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $265,650 to $318,290 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives.   Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.  In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, youll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. Youll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

 

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today. 
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