UX Architect – Digital
Join Guidewire design! UX @ Guidewire
Love solving sticky problems? Excited about crafting innovative solutions for global software? Interested in working on products that touch everyone’s lives? We’re a close-knit and multidisciplinary UX team working to make cloud software at the forefront of the insurance industry. We’re committed to building an inclusive workspace that embraces people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and talents. Our team tackles various domains within Property and Casualty insurance, from building and managing continuous integrations for various cloud products to claims to big data and analytics. We consider design a team sport where, together with our colleagues, we strategically solve business realities and execute innovative and scalable solutions for enterprise and customer-facing applications.
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Your day-to-day:
- Working independently but also collaboratively with fellow designers and researchers
- Building bridges between different functions (e.g., product management, engineering, technical writers, services, etc.) to define and prioritize problems to be solved and requirements
- Planning and running workshops and design sprints to engage with internal stakeholders and customers
- Applying design principles to map out complex processes and journeys involving multiple personas
- Iterating design, developing design solutions from requirements, incorporating feedback from stakeholders, and applying analytics and user research findings
- Crafting and specifying the user interface to production quality
- Working collaboratively with Business (BA) and Development teams to drive out designs that align to Business Objectives and are technically feasible
What you need to be successful:
- 8+ years of user experience design, interaction design, and user research experience in enterprise and complex business processes, insurance domain a plus
- Keen interest and experience in designing tools for software developers, ability to empathize with development roles, coding experience a plus
- Proven experience in planning, executing, and synthesizing research, both qualitative and quantitative
- Experience with design and collaborative tools like Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Miro, Invision, etc.,
- Experience working with design systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- A design portfolio that demonstrates human-centered design process and business success
Does this sound like the sort of role for you? We would love to speak to you. Apply online now by submitting your resume and portfolio. When sharing your portfolio (link or pdf), please indicate your role and contributions for each project.
How we work @ Guidewire
Collaboration: We build on each other’s ideas and draw on interdisciplinary approaches to craft impactful experiences.
Integrity: We stand behind our words and commitments as part of a global community, respecting and recognizing our interdependence.
Curiosity: We are lifelong learners, with a growth mindset, who are passionate about advancing our discipline through entertaining new ideas and unique perspectives.
Humility: We leverage our expertise while respecting other viewpoints and challenging our own assumptions.
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. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.
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