Senior Product Manager-Cloud Services, Birmingham, AL

Company: Guidewire Software Inc.
Location: Birmingham
Posted on: November 21, 2020

Job Description:

Guidewire is widely recognized as the leading provider of software solutions for the PC 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 PC. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to help us build a modern software continuous release pipeline to deliver our code to our customers. This is a new position at Guidewire since we've traditionally deployed our software as an on prem installable. With our shift to the cloud comes a shift to a new way of building and delivering code and we want you to lead the way. You will work with our engineering and product leadership to define how code should be released, packaged and delivered to our customer for both our existing monolithic app as well as our new microservices. You will work with both internal stakeholders looking to release frequently as well as external stakeholders looking to minimize business changes to come up with the best way for a company selling large scale mission critical software to deliver small, frequent updates with minimal customer disruption. Key Responsibilities Establish shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution. Partner with engineering leadership to execute the vision for the continuous delivery of our enterprise cloud products. Strategize with engineering leadership on process updates to improve velocity. Define product roadmaps and determine features for each release. Work closely with the engineering organization, 3rd party vendors, and operation teams through design, testing, and product release to deliver features timely and with quality. Collaborate and write requirements with clear acceptance criteria that can be easily consumed by the engineering team. Demonstrate flexibility and the ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced work environment Required Skills Experience 10 years of total experience, with at least 3 in product management, in cloud-based and cloud-native business applications with specific experience in build and release management. Experience with public cloud (e.g. AWS, GPC or Azure) infrastructure at scale. Understanding of Containerization and Container orchestration (e.g. Docker Kubernetes). Understanding of blue-green, canary deployments, rolling updates and zero downtime updates. Experience going through full product cycle, integrating feedbacks into product requirements. In depth understanding of software build and release cycles. Ability to clearly articulate product requirements and prioritize enhancement requests. Experience with definition and analysis of metrics that inform the success of products. Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills. Familiarity with JIRA and AHA desired. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical majors. About Guidewire Guidewire is the platform PC insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. 380 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 700 successful projects, supported by the largest RD 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 toor . 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, callor e-mail to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request andor hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

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