About the position
Guidewire is widely recognized as the leading provider of software solutions for the Property & Casualty Insurance industry and is actively working to extend its market leadership by delivering the next generation of cloud solutions to solve key challenges our customers face. Our new cloud solutions will allow our customers to unlock innovation, pursue disruptive new market opportunities, and otherwise empower them to reimagine the way they do business in P&C. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager, Cloud Platform to join our world-class product team. You will work with a global product team spanning product management, P&C insurance domain experts, user experience design and engineering. We are looking to expand our App Platform to deliver the next generation Business Rules framework. Join our team to establish a standards based Rules Engine to help automate complex P&C decisions. This is a unique opportunity to build a critical platform component for Guidewire Cloud. Join our team that is building business intuitive SaaS tools for Property and Casualty insurers to improve business automation.
Responsibilities
- Establish application platform capabilities for business rule execution, establishing an expression language and decision tables for decision automation.
- Build compelling user experience for configuring business rules with a fast and efficient workflow that fits seamlessly into the rest of the development lifecycle.
- Gather requirements from application product managers to understand P&C insurance processes that require process automation and collaborate to deliver platform capabilities.
- Collaborate with other platform product managers to ensure seamless configuration end-to-end lifecycle and user journeys.
- Work closely with engineering and UX on sprint activities including backlog grooming, prioritization, and requirements gathering.
- Work closely with P&C SMEs such as professional services, SI partners etc to identify Content (reusable decision templates, decisions) needs to accelerate the development of P&C applications.
- Ability to identify success metrics for Guidewire and customers and use data-driven decision making for product strategy.
- Articulate both the business value to customers and the corresponding impact to GW of the successful adoption of capabilities.
- Analyze competitive trends and InsurTechs who are building similar configuration platforms for insurance products.
Requirements
- 3+ years of product management experience, preferably in cloud-based and cloud-native business applications and/or highly configurable enterprise software products and solutions.
- Prior experience building Business Rules framework and working with DMN standards with hands on experience as a product manager, architect, or engineer is preferable.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to present clearly and persuasively to customers, partners, colleagues and senior executives.
- Highly structured and well-organized individual with ability to successfully manage product management activities across multiple, concurrently running cloud transition programs.
- BS in Engineering major required (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering preferred), and Masters preferred but not required.
Benefits
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $138,000 - $245,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
- 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.
