UX Architect

Summary

Guidewire serves a global community of more than 350 insurers of all sizes and lines of business in more than 30 countries. Community feedback enables us to stay at the forefront of what is happening all over the world in P&C and to incorporate insights into the design of our platform to be truly customer centric.

Guidewire exists to deliver the industry platform that P&C insurers rely upon to adapt and succeed in a time of accelerating change—and to ensure that every customer succeeds in the journey. We provide software, services, and partner ecosystem to enable our customers to run, differentiate, and grow their business.

Are you passionate about tackling complex challenges? Do you thrive on creating cutting-edge solutions for global software applications? Guidewire Software is seeking a talented UX Architect to join our dynamic team. As part of our multidisciplinary UX team, you'll play a pivotal role in crafting cloud-based software solutions that are revolutionizing the insurance industry. We pride ourselves on fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

Our work spans various domains within Property and Casualty insurance, including policy and claims management, and big data analytics. At Guidewire, we view design as a collaborative effort, working alongside our colleagues to address business needs and deliver innovative, scalable solutions for both enterprise and consumer users.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic thinking and direction for UX design and system design across the analytics portfolio, ensuring a cohesive user experience across business applications

• Contribute to product and engineering leadership discussions and promote good UX within the organization.

• Plan, conduct, and analyze user research, and provide actionable insights to stakeholders, incorporating quantitative, competitive, and market data.

• Balance user research, technical, and business requirements to solve complex design problems.

• Build relationships with key business partners, in product and engineering and set design principles and direction across the solution portfolio  based upon their inputs.

• Maintain an advanced understanding of industry value drivers and design trends in analytics and AI.

• Communicate effectively and influence the business strategy through visionary storytelling and design concepts.

• Contribute to UX team operation practices,  the design system and guide others in mentoring and coaching best practices.

Qualifications:

• Proven leadership and influence across a product organization.

• Strong background in UX design direction, planning  and systems thinking.

• Proficient in framing, conducting, and analyzing research.

• Ability to build relationships with key business partners.

• Understanding of industry standards and analytics trends.

• Skilled at visionary storytelling and aligning efforts with company initiatives.

• Ability to teach others mentoring and coaching best practices.

How we work @ Guidewire

• Collaboration: We build on each other’s ideas and draw on interdisciplinary approaches to craft impactful experiences. 

• Integrity: We stand behind our words and commitments as part of a global community, respecting and recognizing our interdependence.

• Curiosity: We are lifelong learners, with a growth mindset, who are passionate about advancing our discipline through entertaining new ideas and unique perspectives. 

• Humility: We leverage our expertise while respecting other viewpoints and challenging our own assumptions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 - $322,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

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.