[Hiring] VP, Global Practices - Professional Services @Guidewire Software

Role Description

The VP, Global Practices leads the technical and methodological backbone of Guidewire Professional Services. This leader owns the global capability, technical standards, and innovation agenda across five practices — InsuranceSuite & INOW, Data, Digital, Tech & Integration, and Business Consulting — and is accountable for ensuring Guidewire-led implementations and SI partner-led programs are delivered to the highest technical bar in the industry.

This role is a true VP on all three Guidewire PS VP framework dimensions:

• Global in scope (every practice, every region, every product)
• Strategy-setting in authority (defines the multi-year capability roadmap and the technical bar for Guidewire implementations worldwide)
• Externally facing (the senior technical voice of PS with customers, SI partners, analysts, and industry forums)

Qualifications

• 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 — agentic tooling, code-gen, document ingestion, intelligent automation.
• Experience operating in or alongside a major SI partner ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strategy-setting leadership: defines a multi-year technical vision for a global function — anticipates market and technology shifts and translates them into clear capability priorities.
• Stakeholder influence: builds alignment across executives, regions, partners, and customers — solves for the enterprise rather than for a single function.
• Technical credibility with senior architects and engineers — engages as a peer, not just a manager.
• Talent architecture: builds future-ready leaders and capability; leads transformations in skills, methodology, and ways of working.
• Executive presence: communicates with clarity, confidence, and credibility across cultures and audiences; able to represent Guidewire externally at the highest levels.

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $232,000 - $377,000.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Company-sponsored retirement plan.
• Eligibility for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long-term incentive awards.

Company Description

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.