• Architect and own Guidewire’s enterprise talent strategy, integrating performance management, leadership development, succession, assessment, and workforce planning into a coherent, data-informed system that scales globally. • Define and continuously refine clear, role-specific performance expectations and success profiles that align to Guidewire’s strategy, AI-first operating model, and Global People FY26 priorities around capability, readiness, and scale. • Establish and embed disciplined performance management practices, including calibration, performance differentiation, and defined talent strategy, in close partnership with Senior People Business Partners and People leaders globally. • Lead enterprise talent management, including building visibility into leadership bench strength, defining readiness and potential against future business needs, and surfacing talent and leadership risks early through robust assessment and succession approaches. • Design and scale leadership and critical capabilities development (for example, business acumen, P&C industry depth, AI fluency) that are tightly connected to performance, succession, hiring standards, and the Global People skills framework. • Partner with Talent Acquisition, People Operations, and regional People leaders to build scalable talent engines in growth markets, improve quality of hire, and reduce downstream performance and readiness risk. • Use workforce, engagement, and readiness data as leading indicators to support VPMOM methods, guide talent investments, and ensure the talent system remains a business enabler as Guidewire advances its AI-powered cloud platform for P&C insurers. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed AI fluency, capability building, and readiness into how we hire, develop, and deploy talent.