Industry Advisor - Hazard & Analytics

Summary

Guidewire is a market leader in providing core software solutions to the global property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry. At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.
We are looking for a highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual to drive innovation and strategically support Guidewire's industry-leading presence in hazard data and analytics. This role combines three critical functions: serving as the client-facing expert on hazard data in the insurance industry, establishing thought leadership in property risk analytics, and providing deep product expertise on hazard data solutions for insurance applications.
You will actively champion the value of data as a strategic business asset, lead the development and communication of new value propositions to the market, and translate business concepts into actionable strategies. This position requires direct customer interaction, strategic sales support, and the ability to bridge technical hazard data analytics with insurance business needs.
HazardHub
Market-leading provider of hazard risk analytics data with 1,250+ data points and 50+ peril scores for personal and commercial properties across the United States, Canada, and 19 additional countries, available as a standalone solution or seamlessly integrated into existing core systems from Guidewire, such as InsuranceSuite, or other third-party vendors.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Customer interaction:  Serve as the primary technical expert on natural and man-made hazards affecting the P&C industry. leading customer-facing interactions for data inquiries and outbound sales efforts. Demonstrate the value of HazardHub products in terms of insurance business metrics (loss cost, claim frequency, claim severity, loss ratio). 

• Thought Leadership: Be the industry spokesperson for HazardHub, reinforcing  Guidewire’s position as the industry thought leader on natural hazards and property risk analytics. Publish opinion pieces, speak at conferences, and coordinate inbound media inquiries.  

• Regulatory Strategy: serve as a regulatory liaison for customers filing HazardHub data with the Departments of Insurance. Formulate and implement strategies for regulatory filings of our models, both from our customers and internally through RSOs. 

• Product Expertise on Hazard Data Solutions: Maintain deep technical knowledge of hazard products and value propositions. Advise product development for our hazard data strategy, climate risk, property resilience, and maintain expertise across multiple hazard models. Translate product capabilities to market needs, customer pain points, and regulatory requirements. Support product, data science, and database teams in ensuring market relevancy. 

What You’ll Bring 

• Insurance Business Acumen: Experience working in property lines of business for 10-15 years with exposure to actuarial underwriting or insurance product management workflows. 

• Client-Facing Experience: Proven track record of direct customer interaction and relationship management

• Technical Hazard Expertise: Scientific or analytical background with strong data interpretation skills

• Predictive Modeling:  Experience with predictive machine learning modeling and analytics

• Regulatory Knowledge: Experience with insurance regulatory processes and compliance requirements

• Builder's Mindset: You are a builder at heart and thrive in uncertain situations. You possess a strong ability to break down complex problems, relentlessly overcome obstacles, identify user needs, and create innovative, elegant solutions from scratch.

• Relentless Curiosity: You have an insatiable desire to understand how things work and how they can be made better.  You constantly seek out customers and prospects to solicit feedback to satiate this curiosity.

Qualifications 

• P&C insurance or Insurtech experience

• Background in science, analytics, or other disciplines that facilitate a deep understanding of the science behind our models 

• Background in actuarial science or a related quantitative field

• Previous thought leadership experience in insurance or risk management

• Experience with regulatory filings

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as use data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $139,000 - $209,000 . 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.