UX Designer

UX Designer at Guidewire Software

Join Guidewire design! Our close-knit and multidisciplinary UX team is dedicated to crafting innovative cloud software at the forefront of the insurance industry. We are committed to building an inclusive workspace that values diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and talents.

UX @ Guidewire

We excel at solving complex problems and creating impactful solutions for global software. Our team tackles various domains within Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance, focusing on creating and maintaining cohesive design patterns, building reusable components, and establishing consistent visual languages across multiple digital products. We view design as a collaborative effort, working alongside colleagues to strategically address business realities and deliver innovative, scalable solutions for both enterprise and customer-facing applications.

Role Overview

We are seeking a UX Designer for our Design System team, based in Dublin or Kraków (with a hybrid work arrangement of 2 days per week in the office). In this role, you will collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to maintain and expand our design system. Your contributions will enable multiple teams to provide exceptional experiences for our industry-leading insurance software products, impacting users globally.

Your Day-to-day

• Help maintain and update our design system components and documentation.
• Create and modify UI components in Figma.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure accurate implementation.
• Assist in usability testing of design system components.
• Support the team in creating design guidelines and best practices.

At Guidewire, we cultivate a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible AI usage, empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What You Need To Be Successful

• 1-3 years of UX design experience.
• Strong knowledge of Figma.
• Solid understanding of design systems and component libraries.
• Good eye for typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy.
• Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS (nice to have).
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a team and collaborate with others.
• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role, utilizing data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

How we work @ Guidewire

• Collaboration: We build on each other’s ideas and draw on interdisciplinary approaches to craft impactful experiences.
• Integrity: We stand behind our words and commitments as part of a global community, respecting and recognizing our interdependence.
• Curiosity: We are lifelong learners, with a growth mindset, passionate about advancing our discipline through entertaining new ideas and unique perspectives.
• Humility: We leverage our expertise while respecting other viewpoints and challenging our own assumptions.

About Guidewire

Guidewire serves a global community of over 540 insurers in 40 countries, providing 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. With an unparalleled implementation track record of 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry, we continuously evolve to enable our customers' success. Our Marketplace offers hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Key skills/competency

• UX Design
• Design Systems
• Figma
• UI Components
• Usability Testing
• Design Documentation
• Visual Hierarchy
• Collaboration
• HTML/CSS (basic)
• AI Integration