Global Head of Compliance

Summary

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Global Head of Compliance (GHC) to lead our global compliance strategy, ensuring alignment with complex regulatory environments and fostering trust with customers, regulators, and stakeholders.
Role Overview
The Global Head of Compliance (GHC) will oversee all compliance-related activities at Guidewire. As a preeminent cloud services provider and the world leader in insurance software, our customers expect and require ongoing and proactive expertise and consultation on regulatory compliance for all matters related to our cloud service offerings, including in areas such as AI, data privacy, data residency, resilience transparency and security.
This executive will ensure full adherence to international, federal, and local regulations while acting as a public and customer facing representative for compliance matters. The GHC will collaborate across legal, risk, operations, and customer-facing teams to embed a culture of ethical compliance throughout the enterprise.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as Guidewire's public and customer facing executive for compliance-related matters.

• Monitor, understand and advise on regulatory trends and ensure timely updates to both our compliance programs and our cloud service offerings (working with our product team) to address new or emerging requirements.

• Partner in the development and enhancement of compliance policies and procedures, particularly as it relates to our cloud service offering.

• Lead global compliance training and awareness initiatives across all employee levels.

• Partner with our Internal Audit team to conduct regular compliance audits, risk assessments, and internal reviews to ensure policy alignment and mitigate risk.

• Collaborate with internal departments and legal advisors to manage regulatory investigations, inquiries, and filings.

• Liaise directly with regulatory bodies, external auditors, and industry associations on regulatory and compliance developments affecting us and our customers.

• Manage and mature a compliance management system (CMS), leveraging AI to ensure advances in automation, reporting, and continuous improvement capabilities.

• Oversee execution of all the regulatory compliance needs of Guidewire

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in compliance, regulatory, or legal leadership roles within the Saas/cloud industry.

• Proven experience engaging with customers and regulators, and leading external compliance communications.

• Strong understanding of country specific resiliency rules, data sovereignty rules, privacy rules and protections, corporate ethics programs and other compliance topics pertinent to a vertical SaaS provider.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and scale compliance programs in a multinational environment.

• JD, LLM, or equivalent professional certification (e.g., CCEP, CCEP-I, CIPM) preferred.

• Exceptional communication and executive presence.

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.