Senior TA Business Partner

Summary

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Partner with senior business leaders, engineering and product managers, and Human Resources Business Partners to translate business priorities into practical talent strategies, hiring plans, and clear role requirements.
• Lead full-cycle recruitment across Software Engineering, Product Management, Cloud and DevOps, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Professional Services, Sales, and other functions.
• Support workforce planning by assessing demand, prioritizing roles, coordinating resource allocation, and developing hiring forecasts aligned with organizational growth.
• Build proactive and inclusive talent pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean and X-ray searches, referrals, specialist communities, AI-enabled sourcing tools, and competitor talent mapping.
• Influence hiring decisions by calibrating requirements, designing effective interview approaches, improving assessment quality, and providing data-backed recommendations to hiring managers and leadership.
• Deliver talent market intelligence, including talent availability, competitor activity, compensation considerations, skill demand, and market-specific hiring challenges.
• Improve recruitment efficiency through structured processes, clear hiring-manager accountability, effective pipeline management, and consistent candidate communication. Track measures such as time to fill, offer acceptance, offer-to-join ratio, source effectiveness, diversity hiring, and funnel conversion.
• Strengthen Guidewire’s candidate experience and employer brand by communicating an inclusive culture, meaningful work, career growth, trusted leadership, access to innovative projects, and opportunities to learn and evolve.
• 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

• Significant experience leading full-cycle recruitment for technology and business roles, preferably in a software, cloud, SaaS, or technology-enabled organization.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior stakeholders, influence hiring decisions, calibrate role requirements, and manage competing priorities with sound judgment.
• Strong sourcing and market-mapping capability, including advanced search techniques, referrals, talent communities, and competitor research.
• Experience using recruitment data and market intelligence to recommend actions, improve funnel performance, and support workforce planning.
• Ability to build trust across People, Compensation, Finance, People Operations, and business teams while coordinating approvals, offers, and onboarding.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, problem-solving, and candidate-relationship skills.
• Commitment to inclusive sourcing and structured, equitable selection practices that help broaden access to opportunity.
• 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.

Preferred

• Degree preferred or equivalent practical experience in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a related field.
• Experience recruiting for specialized areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, DevOps, product management, or professional services.
• Experience mentoring recruiters, sharing sourcing practices, and contributing to recruiting strategy, operational excellence, or employer-brand initiatives.
• Familiarity with applicant tracking systems, recruitment analytics, LinkedIn Recruiter, AI-assisted sourcing, and workflow automation.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you will build relationships with key leaders, understand Guidewire’s workforce priorities, establish hiring plans for critical roles, strengthen proactive talent pipelines, and introduce practical insights on talent markets, sourcing effectiveness, and funnel health. You will help improve measurable outcomes such as hiring-manager responsiveness, time to fill, offer acceptance, offer-to-join conversion, candidate experience, and diverse pipeline representation while supporting the Global People Organization’s priorities around AI fluency, scalable talent engines in growth markets, stronger employer brand, and a consistent global candidate experience. Your broader influence will be felt in the teams you help build, the candidates whose experience you improve, and the business outcomes enabled by bringing the right capabilities to Guidewire at the right time.

What’s in it for you

The people we employ give their all, and in return, we offer flexibility wherever we can, such as:

• Flexible work environment
• Health and wellness benefits
• Paid time-off programs, including volunteer time off
• Market-competitive pay and incentive programs
• Continual development and internal career growth opportunities
• Opportunities to work with global teams and contribute to meaningful, innovative projects
• An inclusive, collaborative culture where people are encouraged to learn, contribute, and grow

Guidewire is committed to customer success and combines digital, core, analytics, and artificial intelligence to deliver its platform as a cloud service. In this role, you will contribute to that wider mission by helping build the diverse, capable, and collaborative teams that enable insurers to modernize and thrive. Guidewire also fosters a culture of in-person interviews for applicants and onsite orientation for all new hires.

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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.

Guidewire is proud to be a disability inclusive employer. We are committed to providing individualized accommodations and support to candidates for any part of our hiring process. If you think you may need disability-related accommodations, please email EmployAbility at accommodations-gw@employ-ability.org.uk, our disability partner, or schedule a call with an EmployAbility expert (calendar booking slot) for a confidential conversation.