Program Manager - Developer Experience

Summary

We are seeking a Program Manager to lead the planning and execution of Guidewire India’s events portfolio, including flagship tech events, leadership forums, employee engagement initiatives, and community-oriented activities. You will have the space to experiment with new formats, test ideas, and continually raise the bar on how we show up—focusing on how to create experiences that people remember and talk about, not events that simply “tick the box.”

This role combines strategy, stakeholder management, and hands-on execution, and is ideal for someone who thrives in a high-growth, global, technology-driven environment.

Job Description

What you’ll do:

Event Strategy & Planning

• Translate business, brand, and people objectives into clear event strategies, formats, and success measures.

• Design end-to-end event journeys (pre-event, on-site, post-event) and manage annual/quarterly calendars to prioritize impact and avoid clashes.

• Enjoys trying new approaches—piloting formats, themes, and experiences, then scaling what works instead of repeating “how it’s always been done.”

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management

• Partner with senior leaders and teams across People/HR, Workplace, Communications, Marketing, and Security/IT to co-own outcomes.

• Set and manage expectations on scope, timelines, and budgets, bringing options, trade-offs, and recommendations—not just task updates.

• Work effectively with global stakeholders across time zones for leadership visits, customer experiences, and partner-facing events.

End-to-End Event Execution

• Own concept → plan → execution → measurement for multiple events in parallel.

• Lead on-ground operations (registrations, attendee communications, layouts, signage, hospitality, F&B, AV, safety, compliance).

• Coordinate multi-day conferences, hackathons, town-halls, and large culture events, including speaker flow, agenda, zones, demos, and audience interaction.

Vendor & Budget Management

• Manage agencies and vendors across production, venues, F&B, décor, merchandise, content capture, and transport.

• Negotiate scopes, compare quotes, lock timelines, and enforce SLAs while protecting experience quality.

• Handle budgets, POs/ZIPs, invoices, and cost optimization; build simple ROI views using metrics such as attendance, engagement, NPS, and cost per participant.

Tools, Systems & Processes

• Use event and collaboration tools (spreadsheets, presentations, project trackers, forms, email tools, basic design templates) confidently.

• Apply strong project management discipline—timelines, responsibilities, risks, checklists, and crisp status updates across workstreams.

• Maintain lean templates and checklists for key event types and use survey/attendance data to experiment, learn, and continuously improve.

Mindset & Behavioural Competencies

• Strong ownership mindset with a bias to action; treats every event as a product to be iterated and improved, not a checklist to be repeated.

• Naturally curious and experiment-driven—asks “how could this be better or different?”

• High empathy and respect for diverse audiences; committed to creating inclusive, welcoming experiences that feel thoughtful and intentional.

• Detail-oriented yet able to connect events back to the broader story we want to tell as Guidewire India; comfortable in an ambiguous, high-growth, tech-centric environment.

What you’ll bring:

Required

• 6 - 8 years’ experience in event management, experiential marketing, or large-scale employee engagement, preferably in a technology, GCC, or B2B environment.

• Proven track record of end-to-end ownership of complex, multi-stakeholder events (beyond coordination support).

• Experience with India-based hubs of global organizations is a strong plus.

• Exposure to developer, technology, open-source, or industry events is an advantage, not a requirement

• Proficiency with collaboration and planning tools (spreadsheets, presentation tools, project trackers, survey tools, basic design templates) and comfort learning new internal platforms.

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.