Guidewire Software is a privately held and venture capital backed enterprise software product development company, focused on servicing the $1.5 trillion property and casualty insurance industry. As the #1 provider of enterprise software applications to the P/C insurance industry, we beat out our competitors such as Accenture and SAP 9 times out of 10.
If working in a fast-moving, low-bureaucracy environment sounds good to you, if you´d like to work with a team of brilliant engineers (almost all have degrees from top-tier schools such as Stanford, Harvard, or MIT), and you would enjoy being part of a financially strong and growing company, then please send us your resume.
Product Managers at Guidewire assume a wide range of responsibilities. You should have experience in gathering requirements for enterprise software applications, a high degree of comfort with technology, and exceptional analytical and communications skills. You should also be comfortable both engaging in product design discussions with developers and presenting to prospective customers. Our product managers are the glue that hold together our minimally-supervised teams; you will be at the center of our product development effort.
As a Product Manager at Guidewire your responsibilities will include:
.Gathering requirements from our customers
.Defining detailed requirements, working closely with developers through designs, making tactical decisions and working through corner-cases identified by customers or application teams
.Prioritizing feature work and coordinating with other Guidewire teams
.Being the expert who can help customers, QA, support, sales, and other groups with questions about your feature areas.
.Providing expertise and selling tools for the Marketing and Sales organizations, including presenting directly to customers (there is a separate Product Marketing function that is directly responsible for messaging and collateral)
Required skills/experience:
.Enterprise software experience
,Prefer prior hands-on experience with Agile Development ,but not required.
.Technical capacity. You should feel comfortable with XML, be able to understand scripting languages, and be able to communicate with the engineering team on tactical technical decisions.
.Bachelor's degree from a top-tier university, preferably in Computer Science or a related field
.Ability to translate high level requirements into detailed product specifications
.Ability to manage complex initiatives with limited supervision
.Exceptional written and oral communication skills
.Good decision-making skills
.Ability to excel in a team-oriented environment
.A real passion for detailed feature design and problem solving
Please check out our website at http://www.guidewire.com/about_guidewire/careers and if this sounds like the right move for you, emai your resume to ahitchcock@guidewire.com for prompt consideration.
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