Senior Product Manager, Release Engineering

Summary

Join Guidewire’s Product Development & Operations (PDO) team in Bengaluru, where we deliver operational excellence and transformative innovation for the world’s leading P&C insurance software. Our team is dedicated to building secure, scalable, and efficient cloud solutions that drive measurable value for customers, collaborating in a culture of curiosity, continuous improvement, and shared success. We focus on AI, cloud, and data platform adoption to ensure every customer is successful and referenceable.
As a Senior Product Manager, Release Engineering, you will drive the strategy and execution of Guidewire’s Release Engineering capabilities, enabling seamless delivery and adoption of our cloud products. This is a high-impact role for a results-oriented leader who thrives on solving complex problems and shaping the future of cloud-based insurance technology. Your expertise will help Guidewire accelerate innovation, optimize cloud operations, and empower customers to achieve business agility.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and vision for Release Engineering, ensuring alignment with Guidewire’s cloud and AI transformation priorities.

• Establish and optimize the path to production for all Guidewire applications and services, focusing on secure, scalable, and efficient delivery.

• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to release velocity, quality, and end-user satisfaction.

• Lead cross-functional teams to evolve Guidewire’s agile development lifecycle, accelerating the delivery of capabilities for cloud hosting.

• Deliver robust test environments that empower the Guidewire community to build, test, and validate solutions with confidence.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to embed automation, DevOps, and best practices into release processes.

• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced, innovative environment, championing continuous improvement and operational excellence.

• 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.

What you’ll bring

Required

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

• 8+ years of experience in the commercial enterprise/B2B software market, with at least 5+ years in technical product management.

• Proven experience in release engineering, DevOps, and software automation for large, complex applications.

• Deep understanding of source code management, compilers, build configuration languages, automated build tools, package managers, and installers.

• Experience with sandbox environments, especially in cloud-based platforms.

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), services, and APIs.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams and with senior executives.

• Keen judgment in analyzing sophisticated problems, making prioritization decisions, and providing clear direction to product teams.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Experience in the P&C insurance or SaaS industry.

• Familiarity with security, compliance, and operational excellence in cloud environments.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you’ll partner with engineering and product teams to define and launch new release engineering processes, deliver measurable improvements in release velocity and quality, and help drive the adoption of cloud-native practices. Your work will directly support Guidewire’s mission to deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions for our customers, contributing to operational excellence and transformative innovation. Over time, your leadership will influence how Guidewire delivers value to customers and shapes the future of insurance technology.

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.