Job Summary

Guidewire is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Product Development pod within our Skilled Services AI Engineering team in Bangalore. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will own both people management for our growing dev pod (Product Engineers, UI/UX, QA, SecOps) and the dev-side technical direction for our AI productization work. Unlike a pure manager role, you will hold Architect-equivalent technical authority over backend architecture, system design, and platform-scaling decisions.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Build, grow, and retain a high-performing dev pod of Senior and Consultant Product Engineers, a UI/UX Systems Developer, the QA Dev Architect, and a SecOps Engineer. Own hiring, performance, career development, and team operations.
- Dev-Side Architecture: Hold Architect-level authority for product-side technical decisions - backend architecture, deterministic business logic, database access patterns, and system scaling choices (e.g., RabbitMQ-backed queues, async processing patterns).
- Delivery Oversight:



Set the bar for code quality, review standards, and release readiness across all Strike Teams. Day-to-day per-project technical calls are delegated to the SR Product Engineers leading each team; you set the standards they execute against.
- Cross-Pod Coordination: Pair with the AI Architect to ensure deterministic and non-deterministic components compose cleanly. Work with the Platform Architect on shared CI/CD, infrastructure, and observability requirements.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Translate priorities from PS leadership into project commitments, capacity plans, and quarterly roadmaps. Represent the dev pod in regional AI governance forums.
- Hiring Performance: Drive the hiring pipeline for the open dev-side positions, calibrate leveling, and own performance and growth conversations across your direct reports.
KPIs / Key Performance Indicators
- Product-side workstreams ship on schedule and m

📌 Senior Manager- AI Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Guidewire Software
📍 Bengaluru