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. 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 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 on the 4th 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.

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

• Work collaboratively with other Product managers,  Engineering, UX, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Enablement 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. 

• Build and communicate roadmaps and requirements with teams and appropriate stakeholders. 

• Launch new products and features, test their performance, and iterate quickly

• Drive Quarterly planning meetings for the supported teams

• Be a servant leader, helping the teams deliver the plans on time to the quality mark

• Track and report progress around those plans 

• Continuously convert chaos to clarity for the team

What we’re looking for in this role:

• A Product Manager who enjoys making a sophisticated system easy to use for our end users

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

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

• Experience working directly with engineering teams, translating customer requirements into actionable features and user stories

• Experience with Scrum and Agile

• 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 with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery concepts and tools, including CI/CD and Source Code Management tools (e.g. Teamcity, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Github, etc.)

• Experience with Continuous Delivery concepts and tools, including Build Management tools (e.g. TeamCity, Jenkins)

• Continuous Delivery, including Source Code Management concepts and tools (e.g. TeamCity, Jenkins, Bitbucket,  etc.)

• Knowledge about the software development lifecycle, including building and testing of source code

• 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 5-10% of the time as and when necessary

• Bachelor's degree in technology or equivalent experience

• 3+ years of technically oriented Product Management / Product Owner experience

Bonus:

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

• Experience with building a B2B Cloud Platform 

• Prior programming experience 

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.