Location: United States - Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Team: Go To Market
Ready for a new challenge? Join Guidewire on our Strategic Advisory Team! We would love to see your background!
Strategic Advisory is a niche department within our company that focuses on supporting our customers through their entire core transformation lifecycle to identify, communicate, and realize business value. Through collaboration with all groups within Guidewire and close collaboration with our customers, we are able to translate the business impact and business preparedness of technology transformation into business value.
You are passionate about identifying business impacts, optimization opportunities, and potential value drivers related to cloud readiness and upgrades. This role is integral in establishing the strategy, processes, engagement model, and results related to these engagements. Due to the strategic nature of these efforts, you should be creative, analytical, and amiable. You are required to quickly understand process issues and problems. Be a specialist at active listening, gently facilitating conversations, and generating consensus. Be receptive and adaptable to the needs of the customer and the Guidewire sales representative. Credibly outline examples of the value and standard methodologies from Guidewire experience. Continuously drive teamwork across all organizations at Guidewire, including but not limited to Sales, Services, Solution Consulting, Product Development, and so on. Present findings in a form that is both visually appealing and intellectually compelling
In addition to leading Value Consulting engagements, responsibilities may include the following:
- Conduct introduction conversations with customers considering the cloud and/or a product upgrade to introduce Strategic Advisory concepts and methodology;
- Lead customer relationships through and beyond their upgrade and cloud transition, with a focus on building enduring partnerships;
- Promote Value Consulting externally via Guidewire marketing events and public conferences;
- Advocate for Guidewire’s value orientation internally, especially for Cloud evaluations, serving as a go-to resource for sales, marketing, professional services, and product management teams;
- Advance the state of the Strategic Advisory team (e.g. contribute to processes, tools, methodology, and interpersonal development).
Note: This role will require 40% - 60% travel is required for this role in the US and Canada, with some week-to-week variance post covid once travel restrictions are lifted.
**Guidewire promotes flexible working practices to strive for a work-life balance. **
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About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.
Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 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 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.