Guidewire is searching for a risk modeling expert to empower our captivating story of vision, strategy, and disruptive impact, encapsulated in our portfolio of solutions for the $2T global insurance industry.  Your work will convince the actuaries and product managers of the world’s largest insurers that Guidewire augments their superpowers and redefines the frontier of the possible.  You will achieve this feat by taming the complex world of geo AI into elegant digital output that compels people to behold that, once they see what the future holds, there is no going back.

Who We Are, What We Believe, & What We Build Guidewire is the market leader that 400+ insurance companies trust to run their mission-critical platform.  Every second, we support underwriters crafting guidelines and actuaries making rates.  We believe that making a great decision should not require 100 in-house data scientists.  Our products range from cyber risk quantification to potent ML sandboxes.  We are a post-IPO company with the vision to revolutionize insurance.  There is a lot to be done.

Who You Are

You are bold, evangelical, deeply strategic, and fast moving.  You persuade your audience into action with an exceptional command of language, perfect tone, and masterful articulation of concepts in both letter and form.  You innately visualize the intersecting landscape of market needs, competition, accuracy, and positioning with departments of insurance.  When you aim, you hit the bullseye and measure success numerically.  You are equally comfortable collaborating on vision as running a highly organized and transparent process. You are comfortable working within a highly matrixed organization and passionate about inspiring enthusiasm across marketing, product,and sales teams to vanquish market-inhibiting challenges. 

Vision:

• Evangelize our vision, add your novel perspective, publish thought pieces, and create thirst for an intrepid future
• Deeply understand market challenges to develop innovative solutions with laser focus and expediency.
• Bring to market the breakthroughs that eradicate insurance complexity with powerful and disarming elegance.

Leadership:

• Amplify an exceptional culture of curiosity and craftsmanship that renders the impossible possible
• Gracefully partner with all constituents, including other matrixed groups, to achieve our bold mission

Execution:

• Deliver maximum-impact model specifications, regulatory positioning, and support for development of collateral that supercharges our reach and ARR growth across multiple 
• industries including insurance, real estate, and ESG.
• Use project milestones together with effective and accurate documentation to communicate and track important deadlines. Leverage triannual model deployments to enable a successful timely launch of all data solutions. 
• Build trust via transparency, frequent communication, and consistent delivery of expected outcomes with exceptional quality.
• Operate a pipeline of thought leadership (white papers, blogs, podcasts) that signals and cements our innovative spirit and insurance industry expertise.
• Work with corporate marketing teams to deliver impactful campaigns and collateral.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years' proven track record in development of geospatial and statistical risk assessment products in P&C domain (3+ years as team lead)
• Strong strategic business acumen with intuitive mathematical prowess & detail orientation that is effective and meaningful, but not paralyzing.
• Demonstrated confidence and business acumen to leverage analytics and data services to solve any insurance challenge combined with creativity that can be required for regulatory hurdles.
• Proficient in Python or R, SQL, ArcGIS or QGIS, and GeoData with Advanced Microsoft® Excel skills
• PhD, FCAS, or CPCU a plus

$141,000 - $211,000 a year

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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 500 insurers in 38 countries, 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 applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

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.