Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition

Summary

Talent is the engine of Guidewire’s global growth. As we scale our SaaS platform across AMER, EMEA, and APAC, we are calling for a Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition to pioneer a fundamental and inspiring transformation of how we find, engage, and hire the world’s best innovators.
This is a strategic and operational leadership role for a visionary obsessed with the future of talent. You will own the global strategy, network, and execution necessary to build high-performing teams across Engineering, Product, Sales, and Corporate functions, all while delivering an authentic, accelerated candidate experience. You will inspire our entire organization to be relentlessly hungry for amazing talent.

Job Description

What You Will Deliver

• Global Talent Strategy: Own and execute the end-to-end global talent acquisition strategy. Partner directly with the Executive Leadership Team (CEO, CPO, CFO) to translate bold workforce plans into transformative, AI-first hiring strategies for multi-year growth.

• Inspire Global Recruiting: Lead, coach, and empower a globally distributed recruiting organization across AMER, EMEA, India, APAC, and LATAM. Foster a culture of excellence and world-class intelligent operations, leveraging your deep network in Software, AI, and Insurance to attract top-tier talent.

• Modern Recruiting Engine: Design and continuously elevate all talent practices—from interview frameworks and assessment quality to best-in-class sourcing and candidate experience. Implement automation, AI, and data to drive unprecedented efficiency, quality, and speed.

• Data-Driven Results: Own and simplify recruiting analytics, building compelling, real-time dashboards to inform location strategy and evidence-based executive decisions.

• Elevate Talent Brand: Partner with Marketing and Communications to strengthen Guidewire's employer brand globally, ensuring we are recognized as a top destination for mission-critical talent.

Who You Are:

You are a decisive, high-integrity Senior TA Leader with a proven track record of scaling recruiting within complex, global tech organizations.

• Experience: 10+ years of progressive TA leadership, including significant time at the Head-of-TA level, successfully leading global recruiting teams.

• Expertise: Deep command of hiring for Software Engineering, Product Management, Sales/Customer Success, and Corporate functions.

• Mindset: A trusted strategic advisor to the C-suite who manages through metrics, not anecdotes. Expert in optimizing modern ATS, CRM, and AI-enabled recruiting tools.

Success in 12 Months

You will have delivered predictable and impactful hiring outcomes against Guidewire’s ambitious growth plans. Specifically:

• A high-performing, inspired global recruiting organization is in place.

• Time-to-hire is dramatically reduced, and quality of hire is improved.

• Our hiring process is redesigned with AI, significantly enhancing the experience for candidates and leaders.

• Guidewire’s reputation is undeniably elevated as a top destination for talent worldwide.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 - $300,000 . 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.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

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.