Senior Director, Product Management - Automation and Integration

As the market leader in P&C insurance software, Guidewire must maintain a clear understanding of our customer needs and has built an industry platform – Guidewire Cloud Platform – to enable the products and solutions that serve those needs. Traditionally delivered on-premises and self-managed, today our customers are increasingly looking to leverage the power of the cloud to reduce IT complexity, minimize operational costs, and unlock innovations that can differentiate their business.  More specifically, they want to transition select insurance lines of business for hosting in Guidewire Cloud so they can focus on business agility while Guidewire assumes full operational responsibility as a true Cloud/SaaS solution provider. Guidewire is looking for a highly experienced product manager to drive the development and growth of our automation tooling and integration frameworks. You will lead a talented team of product managers, P&C domain experts, and other key contributors focused on optimizing and transforming the delivery of existing Guidewire applications and drive the Guidewire Cloud Platform. Your responsibility will include defining a product roadmap that enables a value-focused, evolutionary customer journey to the cloud while enhancing GWCP products to reduce the cost of cloud operations.
Automation and Integration include a suite of products: Integration Gateway, App Events, Workflow Service, Business Functions, Dev Connect, Cloud Rules, and others. These products, available globally, enable Insurers to automate repetitive tasks as well as connect Guidewire to upstream and downstream systems within their ecosystems. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, results-oriented leader responsible for driving the end-to-end enablement lifecycle from concept and requirements specification through successful adoption by Guidewire cloud customers.  As a key member of the leadership team, you will own the overall strategy, define the business and product plans, guide the execution, and be accountable for successfully achieving both cloud adoption and operating margin targets for this critical part of Guidewire’s business.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall Guidewire automation and integration strategy, roadmap, and execution plan to address the needs of both new and existing customers.
• Be accountable for business, financial, and operations planning processes required to ensure cloud-hosted products meet performance expectations for customer adoption and revenue growth.
• Help evolve and refine Guidewire’s agile development lifecycle to accelerate delivery of capabilities to optimize cloud hosting of existing products.
• Act as a key contributor and highly influential member of the leadership team that commands attention and drives alignment across a range of opinions, alternatives, and competing interests.
• Recruit and mentor a high-performance product management team, ensuring members have the resources, skills, and capabilities needed to deliver on our cloud-hosted value proposition.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of increasingly responsible product management leadership experience in planning, launching, and oversight of enterprise-class software products and solutions.
• 5+ years of experience in managing the definition and market delivery of cloud-based and cloud-native business applications.
• Direct experience with emerging business models and market trends in SaaS and cloud-hosted environments to understand how this influences cloud transition strategy and execution.
• Very strong business acumen and ability to plan, execute and achieve market penetration, top-line revenue, and operating margin targets across the product line.
• Excellent technical understanding of modern cloud technologies including cloud stacks, IaaS cloud services, cloud-native deployments, Kubernetes, microservices, containers, etc.
• Deep understanding of product management operational metrics and KPIs to provide visibility and accountability across the software development lifecycle.
• 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 the ability to successfully manage product management activities across multiple, concurrently running cloud transition programs.
• Strong people management skills with proven success in motivating, mentoring, and creating an environment where the best talent wants to be.
• MA/MS and BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. MBA preferred.

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