Development / Consulting Manager - Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group (InnoCoDev)

Summary

Organization: Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group (InnoCoDev)
This team will operate as a dedicated strategic function within Professional Services, working closely with Product Development, Sales, and Customer Success. Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of industry-wide solutions through strategic co-development partnerships with key customers. This initiative will establish a SWAT team within Professional Services to identify, cultivate, and operationalize these partnerships, demonstrating Guidewire Professional Services’ unique value proposition and capturing premium service opportunities.
Role Overview
As the Development / Consulting Manager, you will be the execution leader of InnoCoDev. You’ll oversee both the Development Unit and Consulting Unit, ensuring delivery excellence, resource alignment, and team growth.
This is not a “traditional PM” role — it is a hands-on leadership position that combines program oversight with technical and consulting depth. You will coach a team of Solution Architects, Engineers, Consultants, and Business Architects/Analysts, while driving customer success across multiple co-development initiatives

Job Description

• Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Coaching

  • Lead and mentor a cross-functional development team.

  • Foster a culture of ownership, empowerment, accountability, and transparency.
     

• Delivery & Execution

  • Ensure successful delivery of co-development initiatives across multiple accounts.

  • Balance innovation with predictability, managing scope, cost, quality, and timeline.

  • Apply agile practices to adapt quickly to new challenges and customer needs.
     

• Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Accountable to the Head of InnoCoDev for execution success with predictability

  • Serve as the primary escalation point for customer stakeholders.

  • Align with Product Development, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure joint success.

  • Represent InnoCoDev’s value proposition to both internal and external stakeholders.
     

• Strategy & Growth

  • Translate organizational vision into operational execution.

  • Shape the team’s evolution — helping roles specialize and scale as the organization matures.

  • Identify and recruit top talent, balancing internal transfers with external hires.
     

• Qualifications

• 15+ years in P&C insurance technology, professional services, or consulting leadership.

• Proven track record managing cross-functional teams in complex delivery environments.

• Hands-on familiarity with software development and business consulting practices.

• Strong executive presence: able to influence senior stakeholders and build trust.

• Entrepreneurial mindset — thrives in ambiguity and startup-like environments.
   

• Core Competencies

• Leadership: Inspires confidence, coaches talent, builds high-performance teams.

• Execution: Balances innovation with delivery predictability.

• Consulting Mindset: Blends technical and business perspectives seamlessly.

• Collaboration: Works across Product, Sales, and Customer Success.

• Culture Builder: Embeds InnoCoDev values — empowerment, accountability, transparency, agility.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000 - $226,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

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 [email protected]. 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, e-mail [email protected] 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.

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.