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Talent Attraction Director - India

  • DepartmentPeople Team
  • LocationIndia - Bangalore
  • Location TypeOn-Site
At Guidewire, we’re carving out a brighter future for the P&C insurance industry with our suite of award winning cloud technologies and services.  We are the premier global InsurTech with offices in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, England, Poland, Malaysia, and India, and over 400 global enterprise clients.

About Us: Our Bangalore office is experiencing dynamic growth with particular rapid expansion across our technical disciplines. To support this expansion, we are seeking a locally based Director of Talent Attraction to drive excellence in our recruitment processes, lead and inspire a growing team of recruiters, and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure we achieve our business goals.

Position Overview: As the Director of Talent Attraction, you will spearhead the recruitment efforts for our India and Kuala Lumpur locations. You will be an inspirational dynamic leader, a mentor and dedicated to the professional development of your team. Your role will involve systematizing global processes, ensuring local compliance, and delivering a best-in-class candidate experience. You will collaborate closely with senior leadership and functional teams to support and empower the continued evolution of the APAC and Indian markets. This position will report to the Sr. Director of Global Technical Talent Acquisition and AMER/APAC Delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Dynamic Leadership: Articulate a vision that unites our growing team to ensure alignment with recruitment goals, model core values, foster a joyful work environment and inspire consistently exceptional work. 
  • Strategic Planning:  Provide subject matter expertise and forward-thinking thought leadership that translates business priorities into actionable plans, ensuring resource capability and capacity.
  • Global Process Optimization: Work with peers on the Global TA Leadership team to ensure best-in-class, globally consistent processes and data integrity. Develop and implement strategies to enhance time-to-hire, quality of hire, and candidate experience.
  • Data-Driven Insights: Utilize data to inform decisions and tell compelling stories. Leverage internal and external analytics to drive changes and improve recruitment outcomes.
  • Excellent Communication: Consistent, clear and transparent communication with all stakeholders to align vision and goals, update on progress, provide data-driven recommendations and manage expectations.
  • Mentorship & Development: Offer guidance and support to your team, focusing on career development and performance management. Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Sourcing Strategy: Innovate and refine both depth and breadth of sourcing strategies, using a diverse set of tools and techniques to attract top talent and establish Guidewire as an employer of choice with target talent in key areas. 
  • Employer Branding: Partner with the Employer Brand team to enhance our Bangalore office’s presence on platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Contribute to content creation, including employee testimonials and videos.

Requirements:

  • Experience: Prior experience in a senior leadership role leading technical talent acquisition teams, including remote employees or those in different locations. At least 5 years of experience supporting technical functions with complex and niche hiring needs.
  • Technical Expertise: Proven success designing, implementing and executing talent acquisition strategies in a rapidly expanding organization. In depth knowledge of current trends, best practices and technologies in talent acquisition and recruitment marketing.
  • Stakeholder Management: Strong consultation, communication and influencing skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions and multiple time zones.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Expertise in using data to drive recruitment strategies and process improvements. Ability to present data insights effectively to stakeholders.
  • Flexibility & Adaptability: Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving environment. Proven capacity to handle change and growth effectively.

Apply Now: If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for leading talent acquisition initiatives and driving recruitment excellence, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in shaping the future of talent acquisition in our growing APAC region at Guidewire!

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. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 
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FINANCIAL

FINANCIAL

Receive market-competitive pay and incentive programs—because you deserve it! To help future-proof your income, we offer generous support through retirement savings plans.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Keep your physical and emotional health in tip-top shape with health insurance for you and your family, an employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, and access to wellness resources.

FLEXIBLE WORKING

FLEXIBLE WORKING

Work in an environment where you’ll have the freedom and trust to make an impact, with time for your life outside of work.

DOWNTIME

DOWNTIME

Relax and kick back through our generous paid time-off programs. Make a difference in your community with three volunteer days each year. Take your own personal day of rest with My Day. We also offer ample paid leave for all new parents.

CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT

CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT

We encourage self-directed learning, giving you every chance to become a better version of yourself, both professionally and personally. At Guidewire, lifelong learning is here for the taking.

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CAREER MOBILITY

Your career opportunities are only limited by your own imagination. Guidewire’s community is filled with chances to expand your horizons across any of our teams or worldwide‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ locations.