Guidewire Project Manager

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Position Summary The Guidewire Project Manager carries out risk mitigation strategies and provides oversight of critical projects, thereby ensuring their seamless alignment with the organizations strategic objectives.

The Manager oversees project timelines and budgets, while ensuring strict adherence to the organizations established standards throughout each phase of project conception, development, and execution.

Responsibilities Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, resource plans, budgets, and status reports.Monitor project scope, timelines, costs, risks, dependencies, and resource utilization to drive successful project outcomes.Partner with business and IT stakeholders across Underwriting, Sales, Claims, Billing, FinOps, and Technology teams to define requirements, prioritize work, and coordinate project execution.Utilize project scheduling and portfolio management tools to track progress, manage deliverables, and provide project transparency.Facilitate project governance activities, stakeholder communications, status meetings, and executive reporting.Manage project risks, issues, and change requests, ensuring timely escalation and resolution when necessary.Leverage AI-enabled tools and capabilities to support risk management, forecasting, resource planning, trend analysis, and proactive decision-making.Ensure projects and enhancement requests are delivered within approved budget constraints while meeting business expectations and strategic objectives.Serve as a critical link between business and technology teams, helping to ensure projects remain on track, risks are proactively managed, and organizational priorities are executed efficiently and effectively.Stay abreast of emerging technologies and programmatic trends by planning and participating in ongoing professional development opportunities.Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Bachelors degree in business administration or related discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and experienceFive or more years of project management and industry experienceProject Management Professional Certification (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master CertificationExperience as a Guidewire Project Manager or Senior Business Analyst with a strong understanding of functional workflows within Guidewire xCenter applications (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and/or ClaimCenter).Proficient in analysis, problem...