Product Manager – Cloud Platform Provisioning & Persistence

Summary

As a Product Manager for Cloud Platform Provisioning & Persistence, you will own and evolve the platform capabilities that enable Guidewire product teams and applications to provision, configure, operate, and lifecycle-manage cloud infrastructure through standardized, self-service APIs and declarative platform abstractions.
Your initial focus will be on persistence services, including Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, and caching capabilities, together with the OAM/KubeVela-based components, infrastructure modules, operators, and automation that expose these services as reusable Guidewire Cloud Platform capabilities. This includes shared and dedicated provisioning patterns, disaster recovery and failover, upgrades, migrations, and support for various Guidewire applications’ workloads.
This role is part of the Guidewire Cloud Platform Product Management organization and works in close partnership with Engineering teams and Outbound Product Management, ensuring that platform capabilities provide a consistent developer experience while meeting product, reliability, security, and operational requirements.
Guidewire’s culture is defined by integrity, collegiality, and rationality where each team member is valued for who they are and what they bring. Our mission every single day is to learn, share, and collaborate while delivering the best product experience for our customers.


The role requires working from the office 10 days per month (every Tuesday and Wednesday, and Monday-Thursday on the 4th week of each month).

Job Description

What will you do:

• Own the product definition, roadmap, priorities, and execution for cloud infrastructure provisioning and persistence capabilities across Guidewire Cloud Platform.

• Work closely with Engineering to define and deliver standardized, self-service platform capabilities for Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, and future persistence services, including provisioning, upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery, and failover.

• Drive discovery and solution design with engineers, architects, SREs, and platform consumers, translating complex infrastructure needs into clear product requirements, APIs, abstractions, and sensible defaults.

• Balance developer flexibility with security, reliability, scalability, and operational consistency across platform capabilities.

• Partner with Guidewire application and platform teams, UX, Enablement, Support, Outbound Product Management, and other stakeholders to validate requirements, manage dependencies, and drive adoption.

• Track delivery, adoption, reliability, and product outcomes, continuously improving capabilities based on usage and feedback.

What we’re looking for in this role:

• A Product Manager experienced in owning technically sophisticated platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing products.

• Strong experience working with engineering teams and translating complex technical problems into clear product requirements, priorities, and execution plans.

• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and modern platform engineering concepts, including APIs, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Ability to reason about platform abstractions and developer experience, simplifying complex underlying infrastructure into consistent and usable capabilities.

• Familiarity with cloud persistence concepts such as relational and NoSQL databases, high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, backups, and migrations.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, SRE, operations, product, and field-facing teams in ambiguous problem spaces.

• 3+ years of technically oriented Product Management experience, with excellent English communication skills and a relevant technical degree or equivalent experience.

• Ability to travel 5–10% as needed.

Bonus:

• Experience with Kubernetes-based internal developer platforms or infrastructure provisioning platforms.

• Familiarity with Open Application Model (OAM), KubeVela, Crossplane, or Kubernetes operators/controllers.

• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies.

• Experience with AWS persistence services such as Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache/Redis, or related technologies.

• Experience with B2B SaaS or large-scale cloud platforms.

• Prior hands-on engineering or programming experience, or experience with large-scale B2B cloud platform.

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.