Pricing Solution Consultant

Summary

Welcome to Guidewire! We make software that offers property and casualty insurance companies the solutions to take care of their customers when they need it the most, whether that’s a time of crisis, a natural disaster, an accident, or exposure to cyber risks. We’re searching for people who are as passionate about working together to represent our quality products and services to the market as we are.
As a Pricing expert, you will be working closely with our Product and Services teams to understand our offerings, with the Sales team to communicate those offerings to prospective customers and most importantly with our prospects and customers to help them find solutions to their most challenging business imperatives.
As a member of a team that is known for execution, you will excel in understanding a variety of technical and business process challenges, leading discussions with internal and prospective customer teams and presenting complex solution demonstrations. The position requires a unique blend of P&C insurance pricing and modeling skills, actuarial analysis, technical design, and communication skills.
A willingness to travel up to 30% is required for this role, with some week-to-week variance.

Job Description

Key activities for the Pricing Solution Consultant include:
 

• Articulating the functional and technical aspects of our offerings to new and existing clients, including pricing and modeling explanations, interactions with policy administration systems, SaaS components, product architecture, configuration/integration paths, etc. This includes providing demonstrations of our software and configuration tools where appropriate

• Supporting the sales team as an expert on Guidewire’s Pricing solutions throughout the sales cycle

• Partnering with other Guidewire Solution Consultants for application configuration for detailed product demonstrations (e.g: data model extensions, rules creation) and supporting solution-related conversations during these demonstrations

• Responding in writing to questions and requests for information from prospects and analysts

• Ability and willingness to constructively and professionally challenge prospects and customers with new approaches

Necessary skills and expertise:

• Pricing and modeling

• Strong verbal and sales demonstration/presentation skills

• Effective and competent writing skills

• P&C insurance pricing systems and concepts

• Integration mechanisms and patterns

Helpful knowledge:

• P&C insurance operations knowledge or experience

• Proficiency in Python and/or other modern programming languages

• Experience with modern P&C insurance systems (ex. Earnix, Akur8)

• Experience in Pre-Sales 

• Familiarity with AI, cloud computing and SaaS industry trends

The US base salary range for this full-time position is - $192,000 . 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.