Senior Talent Attraction

Summary

Guidewire is looking for an experienced Recruiter to join the global Talent Attraction team. This role will manage full-cycle recruiting for professional, technical, and business roles while partnering closely with hiring managers and People teams to deliver a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience.

The ideal candidate combines strong sourcing expertise, stakeholder judgment, commercial awareness, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

Own the full recruitment lifecycle from intake and sourcing through interviews, offer, and pre-onboarding.

Partner with hiring managers to clarify role requirements, define success profiles, and develop practical hiring strategies.

Build talent pipelines through direct sourcing, referrals, LinkedIn Recruiter, talent communities, events, and selected agency partnerships.

Conduct structured recruiter screens to assess qualifications, motivation, communication, compensation alignment, and role fit.

Present high-quality shortlists and provide hiring managers with relevant market and talent insights.

Manage candidate engagement and communication throughout the hiring process, ensuring a timely and respectful experience.

Coordinate structured interview processes, panel alignment, feedback collection, debriefs, and finalist recommendations.

Partner with Compensation, HR Business Partners, Finance, and TA Operations on leveling, offers, approvals, background checks, and start dates.

Maintain accurate requisition and candidate data in Workday and ensure strong process compliance and ATS hygiene.

Track recruiting metrics including pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, and diversity outcomes.

Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, tools, candidate experience, and stakeholder ways of working.

Contribute to employer branding, talent campaigns, recruiting projects, and broader global Talent Attraction initiatives.

What You’ll Bring

8+ years of progressive recruiting or talent acquisition experience, preferably in a global technology, SaaS, or enterprise software organisation.

Demonstrated success managing full-cycle recruitment for multiple roles and stakeholders.

Strong direct sourcing and passive-candidate engagement skills.

Experience recruiting technical, professional services, corporate, or other specialised talent.

Strong consultative and stakeholder-management skills, including the confidence to challenge role briefs constructively.

Excellent interviewing, assessment, negotiation, and candidate-closing capabilities.

Ability to use market data and recruiting metrics to influence hiring decisions.

Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

High ownership, sound judgment, organisation, and attention to detail.

Experience with Workday Recruiting or another applicant tracking system; familiarity with LinkedIn Recruiter and recruiting analytics tools is preferred.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is preferred.

What Success Looks Like

Hiring managers view you as a trusted talent advisor and recruiting partner.

Roles have strong, diverse, and appropriately qualified pipelines.

Candidates receive clear, timely, and thoughtful communication throughout the process.

Recruiting decisions are structured, evidence-based, and aligned to role requirements.

Offers are closed effectively and hiring plans are delivered with strong quality and pace.

Workday data, recruiting metrics, and process documentation remain accurate and reliable.

This draft follows Guidewire’s existing recruiter model: the recruiter is the core partner from intake through offer and onboarding, with Workday serving as the source of truth for requisitions, candidates, feedback, offers, and status tracking. It also reflects the Talent Attraction team’s emphasis on strategic partnership, direct sourcing, market intelligence, candidate experience, and data-informed hiring.

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.

We’re an extraordinary blend of hungry self-starters, intrepid explorers, brainy experts, and loyal allies. Combine all of this, and we make a glorious success story, loaded with down-to-earth, helpful, and passionate people, all on the journey of cloud innovation and best in class technology. Guidewire’s an adventure—and it’s yours for the taking.

About Us

At Guidewire, we are utterly committed to customer success. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service to the P&C Insurance industry. And with the largest R&D team, services team, and partner ecosystem in the industry, we continually evolve and innovate to meet our customers’ needs.

We put our values of Integrity, Rationality, and Collegiality first, harboring a culture of honesty and openness that our people never want to lose. And we each bring a little quirkiness—and a little genius—to the table. As the landscape of our industry continues to shift, we respond with flexibility and skill. We’re braving uncharted territory, pushing past the conventional with our products, partners, and people.