Product Manager

Summary

As a Product Manager working on the Guidewire Cloud Platform, you will build products that enable Guidewire customers to develop, build, test, deploy, and manage any Guidewire application in the cloud with ease. In particular, you will be responsible for defining the business strategy and the requirements for the business continuity aspects of the Guidewire Cloud Platform. Our cross-functional product teams drive vision, roadmap, discovery, execution, and delivery of products that enable Insurers to innovate quickly, easily, and at scale.

The platform product area (GWCP) is a relatively new part of Guidewire that is rapidly growing to meet customer and business demand. This role will have the opportunity to strongly influence the product and team, and to develop new strategies.

Guidewire’s culture is defined by integrity, collegiality, and rationality where each team member is valued for who they are and what they bring. Our mission every single day is to learn, share, and collaborate while delivering the best product experience for our customers.


The role requires working from the office 10 days per month (every Tuesday and Wednesday, and Monday-Thursday during the in-office week of each month).

Job Description

What will you do:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the cloud ecosystem that enables Guidewire applications, the market, competition, and user requirements.

• Work with Customers to understand their needs, business drivers and to identify opportunities with a focus on the business continuity of the platform.

• Seek opportunities to generate new revenue streams for the Guidewire Cloud Platform with a focus on platform features supporting various aspects of business continuity (including disaster recovery, high availability, immutable backups, etc.) 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to discover and evaluate opportunities, and prioritize and refine solutions. 

• Work collaboratively with other Product managers, Go To Market, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, UX, Operations, Enablement and other Business teams to define and maximize the value of our solutions. 

• Envision smart solutions to complex problems while collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions. 

• Work with Engineering and development-facing Product Managers to build and communicate roadmaps and requirements to teams and appropriate stakeholders. 

• Provide input and participate in quarterly planning meetings.

• Continuously convert chaos to clarity for the team.

What we’re looking for in this role:

• A Product Manager who enjoys working directly with customers to understand their needs and define functional requirements for how our platform services them.

• Collaborative, self-motivated, positive team player who is curious and has excellent communication skills with experience in working across global time zones.

• Self-starter with an owner and problem-solving mindset, not afraid of taking initiative and driving solutions.

• Experience working directly with customers, sales, marketing, and other customer-facing roles.

• Experience with translating customer needs into functional requirements.

• Experience with business continuity concepts focusing on cloud and SaaS (Software as a Service) aspects (disaster recovery, high availability, etc.)

• Knowledge base in cloud technology concepts including workflows, tools, and architecture

• Experience driving a discovery process including capturing data, analysis, forming a hypothesis, and testing;

• Experience working with strategic product roadmaps, working on cross-functional teams, measuring outcomes, and delivering results;

• Excellent English speaking and written communication skills

• Flexibility and ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced work environment

• Ability to travel 10-25% of the time as and when necessary

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or equivalent experience

• 4+ years of technically oriented Product Management experience

Bonus:

• Experience with building web infrastructure, services, or applications at scale 

• Experience with the software development lifecycle

• Experience with building a B2B Cloud Platform

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it’s applicable to the position.