Location: United States - Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Marketing

Would you like to be part of a fast-growing, highly successful and innovative team that acts like a startup but is backed by the most adopted technology platform of the $2T Global P&C Insurance industry? Do you enjoy creating compelling content through storytelling, that demonstrates thought leadership and inspires prospects and customers?

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine 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.

Guidewire’s Product Marketing team creates the differentiated storytelling that drives the company’s strategic direction. Guidewire is seeking a star product marketer, with strong technical acumen and experience with cloud services, to help promote our cloud platform for the U.S. P&C insurance industry.

You are bold, creative, 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 are equally comfortable collaborating on vision as running a highly organized and transparent process. Product management and sales love you and rely on your ability to craft the right narrative for every situation. 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. Critical thinking, collegiality, and the ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences will make you a great fit in this role and at Guidewire.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and execute the overall go-to-market plan for Guidewire Cloud, including internal enablement and external promotion.
• Work cross-functionally to develop compelling, consistent messaging and collateral that ties together product information, broader industry trends, competitive positioning, and regional considerations. The Product Marketing Manager works to enable and support the company’s worldwide sales team, analyst relations, consulting and technology partners, demand generation campaigns, and public relations initiatives.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert for Guidewire Cloud and products deployed via Guidewire Cloud.
• Conduct market research to determine emerging trends, market needs, and customer requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Management on product vision and roadmap.
• Present on Guidewire Cloud-related topics to customers and at conferences and other industry events.
• Support Guidewire’s annual user conference, including providing guidance on the agenda, presenting content, and coaching other speakers.
• Support corporate and customer marketing efforts and campaigns, including webinars, direct campaigns, event and conference speaking, customer / prospect activities, testimonials, web / blog content.
• Juggle multiple projects while ensuring that best practices, quality, and brand are preserved and strengthened.

The Candidate

• 10 plus years of relevant experience, ideally in a technical &/or cloud/SaaS product marketing role in a B2B software company
• Excellent skills and talent for communications in all forms and media - spoken, written, visual, presentations, websites, social media, video; formal and informal.
• Internal collaboration and a proven ability to build relationships with individuals and teams that are peers, executives, internal customers, and Guidewire customers around the globe. Balancing strong personalities is key.
• Strong program management skills including goal setting, milestone planning, progress reports, and collaboration.
• Sense of humor, fun, and empathy for colleagues and customers are prized qualities in this team.
• Experience in P&C insurance a bonus, but not required.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of time.

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.