Are you ready for a new challenge? If so, we would love to see your background! Guidewire is searching for a unique and driven product and business leader to redefine how predictive models are developed, deployed, and monitored across the $2 trillion dollar P&C industry.

Your work will set the bar for injecting data science into the workflow of 10,000s of underwriters, claims adjusters, and insurance professionals. You will establish the vision for a product that provides high impact, cutting edge predictive analytics solutions for data science teams at the world’s largest insurers and at smaller specialist insurers that use our offerings to operationalize their analytics.

We are looking for someone to lead a team of insurance domain experts and advise the work of driven software engineers, data scientists, and industry domain specialists to build and lead our Predictive Analytics product as the crown jewel atop the Guidewire Cloud Platform that is the cloud version of the most influential insurance platform in existence. As the face of the product, you will build a vision that enables every P&C insurer to up their game with analytics, distill AI/ML concepts into concise value propositions, deploy models painlessly, and exponentially expand the prevalence of model-driven decision making.

Guidewire is the global market leader in P&C insurance software. 380 insurance companies run on our mission critical platform. Every second, we support underwriters crafting policies, adjusters settling claims, and agents placing coverage. Our products range from cyber risk quantification applications to potent ML sandboxes. We are a post-IPO company with the vision to revolutionize insurance. There is a lot to be done.

You have validated expertise in crafting rapid growth enterprise AI/ML products in Insurtech or FinTech. You have both product and people management experience, and you lead by example. You are an unrivaled evangelist and exceptional communicator, tame ambiguity for breakfast and you are a doer. You ship products. You think strategically, move quickly, and deeply understand the market. This role is a leader to engineering, a secret weapon to sales, and an indispensable resource to marketing. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Foster a bold roadmap for the leading predictive analytics & AI/ML sandbox product in the P&C insurance industry
• Lead a team of product managers and insurance domain experts to establish Guidewire as the industry leader in predictive analytics
• Build must-have new features like scenario modeling, business impact monitoring, and pricing optimization tools
• Leverage the Guidewire Data Platform to power both Guidewire and third-party analytic solutions
• Guide our large team of engineers and data scientists to build on-time, on-spec, and with high quality
• Build cross team trust via transparency, communication, and teamwork and support the sales process

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years’ consistent track record in building predictive analytics or actuarial products
• Expertise in B2B SaaS products in InsurTech or FinTech
• Strong expertise in managing technical teams focused on technical domains
• Compelling vision and superb communication coupled with strong business acumen and detail orientation
• Deep understanding of large enterprises’ issues
• and adoption of predictive analytics & AI/ML
• Experience with AWS ecosystem including Sagemaker and Quicksight.

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Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.

Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 insurers, including 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 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

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.

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 (650) 356-4940 or 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, call (650) 356-4940 or 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.