VP, Global Practices – Professional Services

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $232k - $377k / year

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Guidewire Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2001

🛡️ Insurance

💰 $750k Series C on 2008-03

Software • Insurance • Cloud Computing

Guidewire Software is a leading provider of software solutions for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes core applications such as PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and BillingCenter, as well as advanced analytics and a robust cloud platform. Guidewire focuses on delivering digital transformations, improving operational efficiencies, and enhancing customer service for insurers globally. Through collaborations and partnerships, Guidewire supports a wide range of insurance products and services, including usage-based and embedded insurance. With its commitment to innovation and customer success, Guidewire continues to empower insurers to meet the evolving demands of the industry.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical and methodological backbone of Guidewire Professional Services • Own global capability, technical standards, and innovation across five practices: InsuranceSuite & INOW, Data, Digital, Tech & Integration, and Business Consulting • Define global architecture standards, integration patterns, product-specific implementation methods, design patterns, and code standards • Maintain and govern practice intellectual property, including toolkits, accelerators, and reference architectures • Establish and enforce the engineering quality bar for implementations and partners • Partner with Delivery Assurance, Global PMO, Global Delivery, Product, Platform, AI Engineering, and the PS AI CoE • Set multi-year practice evolution plans supporting new products, delivery models, and AI-accelerated implementation • Integrate AI methods and tools into technical practice methodology • Champion productization of repeatable services solutions and own their technical quality • Build and maintain a global bench of architects, technical experts, and methodologists • Define technical career paths and leveling expectations for practice talent • Drive workforce planning 12–24 months ahead of demand and manage utilization and productivity • Develop succession depth for Senior Director practice leads and identify high-potential talent • Serve as senior technical voice on strategic deals, technical pre-sales, and complex proposals • Provide escalation support for at-risk programs • Own Professional Services’ technical credibility with major customers, partners, and Guidewire executive leadership • Set the technical bar and certification alignment for SI partners • Build partner tools, training, and reference assets • Influence partner ecosystem strategy • Represent Guidewire externally at customer briefings, advisory councils, SI partner summits, analyst engagements, and industry forums • Deliver measurable improvements in implementation quality, consistency, productivity, speed, accuracy, and cost-efficiency

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years in technology services, software implementation, or enterprise consulting, with significant time in a practice or capability leadership role • Proven track record leading a global, multi-practice or multi-discipline technical organization at scale • Deep experience implementing complex enterprise software, ideally in insurance, financial services, or a comparable regulated industry • Demonstrated experience driving technical methodology and engineering rigor in cloud-based delivery models • Experience integrating AI and automation into delivery practices, including agentic tooling, code-gen, document ingestion, and intelligent automation • Experience operating in or alongside a major SI partner ecosystem • Strategy-setting leadership defining a multi-year technical vision for a global function • Stakeholder influence across executives, regions, partners, and customers • Technical credibility with senior architects and engineers • Talent architecture and transformation leadership • Executive presence and ability to represent Guidewire externally at the highest levels • Preferred: P&C insurance domain depth, or comparable depth in another core-systems-driven regulated industry • Preferred: Prior CTO, Chief Architect, or VP of Engineering experience in a services or product company • Preferred: Track record building or scaling a global practice function from earlier-stage to enterprise scale • Qualified applicants must be able to satisfy applicable criminal history and other background checks

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Paid time off • Company sponsored retirement plan • Some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan • Some roles may be eligible for commissions • Some roles may be eligible for long term incentive awards • Disability accommodations in the hiring process • Appeals process for denied accommodations or non-selection decisions