Guidewire delivers 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 the software, services, and partner ecosystem to enable our customers to run, differentiate, and grow their business.
Our Insurance Platform is the P&C industry platform that unifies software, services, and partner ecosystem to power our customers’ business. Insurance Platform provides the standard upon which insurers can engage their customers, optimize their operations, drive smart decisions, and innovate quickly. We are privileged to serve more than 350 P&C insurers in 32 countries. We invest heavily in R&D to build a technology platform that combines three elements—core processing, data and analytics, and digital engagement—to enhance insurers’ ability to engage and empower their customers and employees.
As an Engineering Program Manager, you will play a key role within the Cloud Applications and Services organization, driving projects internally (and with other teams). You will be responsible to drive and coordinate major cloud applications and cloud service initiatives with the highest degree of complexity. Your impact will be felt across the organization. You will spend a significant proportion of your time developing the capabilities of the team as a whole. Responsibilities include driving project schedules from design to release and managing the production launch.
As an Engineering Program Manager, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You will need the ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, coordinating the delivery and managing dependencies for on-time delivery. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
Technical knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, and AWS a plus.
You will
- Drive functional and technical delivery of key team-, org-, and other cross-functional initiatives. Collaborate with development, product management, other engineering teams, and Ops to design, scope, and shepherd features
- Create project/release plans.
- Coordinate multiple engineering programs simultaneously.
- Facilitate driving product decisions to align with higher company initiatives.
- Help influence peers/managers and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.
- Manage expectations, track deliverables present reports to leadership.
- Guide and manage the usage of agile methodologies to simplify project delivery.
Required Skills
- 5+ years as a Engineering Program Manager, engineering leader, or related discipline
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- This role requires technical knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, AWS eco-systems.
- Ability to analyze business requirements, dependencies, scope technical requirements, manage multiple software development efforts, drive rigorous testing, and coordinate product launch.
- Demonstrable experience with agile software development methodologies and productivity tools
- Strong analytic and project management skills
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve systemic issues
- Interpersonal skills to build relationships, and collaborate with diverse cross-functional teams
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $123000 - 224000 + 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.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
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 450 insurers, 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 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.
