Senior Project Manager - Guidewire
Overview
Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2026!
Summary:
As a Senior Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving projects forward using agile
methodologies. Throughout the project lifecycle, you will track progress, work with Engineering and
Product counterparts to manage timelines proactively and ensure effective resolution of issues. In
addition, you may serve as the Scrum Master, facilitating various agile ceremonies, acting as a servant
leader, and creating reports to showcase team productivity.
Geo-Salary Information
An in-person interview may be required during the hiring process
State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:
$101,167 to $204,439 (NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)
$91,970 to $185,853 (NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)
$82,773 to $167,268 (UT, ID, MT, NM, SD, NE, KS, OK, IA, AR, LA, MS, AL, TN, KY, IN, SC, NC, WV)
In CA: Typical hiring range is $137,522.70 to $191,003.75
The expected base salary for this position will vary depending on a number of factors, including relevant experience, skills and location.
Responsibilities
Essential Job Functions:
- Lead project planning, resource allocation, and monitoring to ensure projects stay on schedule and within budget, utilizing agile principles.
- Motivate cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and deliverables, fostering a collaborative and agile working environment.
- Accountable for delivering technical projects on time, within budget, and with successful outcomes according to business objectives.
- Develop comprehensive project plans encompassing scope management, deliverables, milestones, resource management, finance, and quality management, in an agile context.
- Manage multiple projects/scrum teams simultaneously, ensuring effective adherence to Agile practices.
- Facilitate backlog grooming sessions with cross-functional teams to ensure clear priorities, understanding, and dependencies before sprint planning.
- Appropriately engages all organizations to ensure effective adherence to completing PDLC governance.
- Maintain and prioritize the requirements backlog, ensuring alignment with technical and operational needs.
- Collaborate with Product Management to help drive sprint planning sessions to set development teams up for success in meeting their commitments.
- Proactively remove impediments for project teams to ensure continuous workflow.
- Monitor and communicate project health, managing interdependencies, and defining critical milestones.
- Conduct retrospectives, drive continuous improvements, and share best practices within the organization.
- Uphold the company's commitment to risk management and data integrity
Qualifications
Education:
Preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications
Experience:
Minimum
- Minimum 8 years of Agile, Scrum, project management, or related experience with a software development team that applied Scrum principles, practices, and theories.
- Proven track record of leading agile transformations by successfully coaching and transitioning teams, programs, and portfolios at all organizational levels, including senior leadership.
- Proficiency with MS Project, Jira and Confluence.
Preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications (preferred).
- 10+ years experience working in the Insurance industry managing Property / Casualty Information Technology projects.
- Experience with Policy and Claims management platforms is also preferred with an emphasis on Guidewire.
- The selected candidate will be required to travel to the Brea, California office.
Skills & Abilities:
Minimum
- Ability to influence without authority, be an effective negotiator, and communicate with various organizational levels, inc