ServiceNow Cuts 133 San Diego Jobs Despite Nearly $4 Billion Quarter
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ServiceNow filed a WARN notice Tuesday, July 28th, confirming 133 job cuts at its San Diego office at 4801 Eastgate Mall, effective by September 28th. The announcement arrives against a striking backdrop: the company simultaneously reported $3.877 billion in second-quarter 2026 revenue — a 23% year-over-year increase — and $298 million in profit. This is not a company in financial distress.
The composition of the cuts is telling. More than half of the 133 positions are at the senior or director level. The functions hit hardest are customer success, support, and product success, which together account for 30 positions, while software quality engineering sees the single largest cut by job title with 10 positions eliminated. The concentration of reductions in customer-facing and quality-assurance roles at a profitable, fast-growing technology firm points toward AI-driven capability expansion reducing the headcount required to deliver those services — though ServiceNow has not characterized the layoffs in those terms.
At the senior and director level, the eliminated positions likely represent six-figure salaries, and the aggregate economic impact on the local workforce is not negligible even relative to the company's scale. The Eastgate area near UCSD has posted positive commercial real-estate absorption for two consecutive quarters; whether the cuts alter that submarket will depend on what happens with the vacated office space.