Technical Program Manager II

Summary

We're searching for people who are as passionate about working together to deliver quality products and support as we are. Join us and enjoy a career where you can make an impact. You'll be inspired by those around you, and you'll be trusted and empowered to go further.

As a Senior Program Manager you will own the program plan and help the teams to achieve their delivery. Additionally, you will support the standardization of processes and tools across various projects and programs in the Product Development and Operations organization. This role serves as a conduit for communication between executives, department leaders and the program team to define, prioritize and deliver dev execution programs, and will support large initiatives that involve multiple stakeholders and span across corporate teams.

You will work in a highly collaborative environment in agile, cross-functional teams. As a Senior Program Manager, you will support / coordinate key processes as Coordinating release and patch deliveries, Production Readiness, enable the teams, and work together to resolve challenging problems and achieve the agreed goals.

You will manage stake-holders communications, be responsible for generating and maintaining a program / release plan, and highlighting any risks or impediments that will put the release in jeopardy.

The work area that this person would be responsible for is part of the Global Content Teams. They will focus on the functionality needed to expand Gudiewire footprint in the APAC markets ( Japan and ANZ).

This position reports directly to the Director of Program Management.

Responsibilities

Job Description

• Lead by supporting teams to deliver programs on time and meet quality standards.
• Understand Software development processes.
• Have a natural focus on getting things done in a timely manner.
• Be comfortable working in a rapidly changing agile environment
• Manage stakeholders proactively.
• Communicate status to management verbally and / or written.
• Facilitate and lead meetings, including identification of action items and follow up.
• Prepare and maintain project / release schedules with all critical tasks and related milestones.
• Identify, analyze, and prioritize project risk and develop response plans.
• Utilize software such as, JIRA, Aha, Confluence, Zoom, g-suite, etc.

Required Skills

About Guidewire

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 540+ insurers in 40 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 1600+ 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.

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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.