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Summary

As a Lead Consultant, you will play a handson role in helping to build and execute Guidewire's new Delivery Assurance and Partner Quality function across the Americas. Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Services Partner Quality Assurance, you'll be responsible for the daytoday execution of Delivery Assurance activities in AMER-coordinating reviews, running core processes, preparing analysis and documentation, and ensuring that followup actions are tracked and closed.
This is an executionfocused role for a strong delivery professional who enjoys making things work in practice: gathering and organizing information, structuring reviews, following through on actions, and keeping stakeholders aligned. You will work closely with the global Delivery Assurance leader and Regional Quality Directors, but your primary focus will be on executing the model for AMER: supporting the Partner Capability Maturity Model (PCMM) process, identifying and refining standards, and performing Engagement Assurance to help ensure consistent, highquality delivery outcomes on SIled and Guidewireinvolved programs in the region.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery Assurance Execution

  • Work with Senior Director, Services Partner Quality Assurance to gather, define, and maintain Professional Services standards to which Partners will be expected to adhere to improve quality.

  • Coordinate the AMER Delivery Assurance review process and cadence, ensuring that inscope SIled and Guidewireinvolved engagements are identified, scheduled, and prepared for review.

  • Gather information requests (artifacts, status reports, metrics) from Partners and engagement teams as input into Delivery Assurance review process

  • Support the Senior Director and Regional Delivery Assurance leaders by organizing materials, capturing observations, and documenting findings and recommended actions.
    

• Support the PCMM Workflow

  • Support the Partner Capability Maturity Model (PCMM) process, ensuring that the prescribed process (inputs, AIgenerated findings, validations, capability assessments, and feedback loops) is executed consistently across AMER partners and engagements.

  • Collaborate with Alliances to operationalize the AIgenerated risk and capability assessment by defining data inputs, reviewing AIgenerated projectlevel findings and capability assessments, validating accuracy, and providing feedback to continuously improve the model.

  • Use PCMM outputs to aid Alliances in prioritization of partnerlevel interventions (e.g., targeted enablement, standards coaching) and to inform partner tiering and ecosystem strategy.
    

• Engagement Assurance

  • Support Delivery Assurance reviews associated with highrisk or "too big to fail" SIled programs in the AMER region by gathering and analyzing inputs and coordinating stakeholder interviews and workshops

  • Create assessments that highlight delivery strengths and risks with clear mitigation plans, owners, timelines, and actions.

  • Help capture and codify lessons learned and best practices from reviews into reusable guidance for PS, Alliances, and partners.
    

• Partner Delivery Quality & Ecosystem Performance

  • Work with Alliances to implement and refine partner scorecards and quality KPIs in AMER, to measure Partner standards adherence, capabilities, and performance.

  • Help drive partner quality improvement by sharing AMERspecific insights, recurring pain points, examples, and improvement ideas with the broader Delivery Assurance and Alliances teams.

  • Support the testing and roll out new Delivery Assurance standards, templates, and tools in AMER, gathering feedback from users and partners.
    

• Data, Reporting, and Tooling

  • Create and maintain Delivery Assurance dashboards and trackers for AMER (e.g., coverage, findings, resolution status, repeat themes, partnerlevel patterns).

  • Validate reporting data for accuracy and completeness, highlighting inconsistencies and working with owning teams to correct them.

  • Contribute feedback on tooling, templates, and workflows to improve efficiency and usability of Delivery Assurance and PCMM processes.
    

• Cross-Functional Coordination

  • Support preparation of executiveready materials (summary slides, dashboards, talking points) for regional governance forums and leadership updates.

  • Act as a reliable operational point of contact for AMER stakeholders on Delivery Assurance process questions, timelines, and expectations

KPIs & Success Metrics

Success in this role will be measured using a combination of global and regional metrics, such as:

• % of eligible AMER SIled projects reviewed by Delivery Assurance per year

• Reduction in the number of engagements where executive escalation of material risks occurs.

• Improvements in partner standards adherence scores, audit pass rates, and capability assessments across AMER partners.

• Improvement in ontime / onbudget implementations, golive success rate, and postimplementation customer satisfaction for AMER SIled programs.

• Positive qualitative feedback from regional PS leadership, Alliances, and key SI partners on the value, clarity, and fairness of Delivery Assurance engagements.

Key Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in professional services, project/program management, PMO, delivery governance, or related roles within enterprise software or consulting.

• Direct experience with Guidewire products and implementations of Guidewire products.

• Experience in the P&C insurance or closely related industries.

• Handson experience supporting or managing customer implementation projects (e.g., as a Project Manager, Senior Project Analyst, or similar).

• Experience working with or within System Integrators and partner ecosystems.

• Solid understanding of core project delivery concepts (scope, schedule, risk, quality, budget) and how they are monitored and reported.

• Comfort working with AIassisted analytics and data platforms to interpret project and partner signals and to refine models over time.

• Experience organizing governance forums, audits, health checks, or risk reviews-including preparation, coordination, notetaking, and action tracking.

• Comfortable reviewing project documents (plans, status reports, RAID logs, design documents) to identify gaps or inconsistencies with guidance from senior leaders.

• Strong organizational and timemanagement skills; able to juggle multiple reviews, data requests, and followups in parallel.

• High attention to detail in documentation, data entry, and status tracking.

• Proactive in following through on open items and reminding stakeholders of upcoming deadlines.

• Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills; able to summarize complex information concisely for busy stakeholders.

• Collaborative, serviceoriented mindset-focused on making processes smoother and lowering friction for participants.

• Proficiency with productivity and collaboration tools (e.g., Google Workspace or Microsoft Office).

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience working with quality programs and/or capability maturity models.

• Formal training or certifications in project / program management, risk management, or governance (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, PgMP, SAFe), or equivalent practical experience.

• Prior involvement in quality, audit, PMO, or assurancetype functions within a services or partner ecosystem.

• Understanding of Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery methodologies

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment
  

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 - $223,000. 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 Accommodations@guidewire.com. 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 Accommodations@guidewire.com 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.