Situational Summary
Zywave, is a software company specializing in insurance software. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Zywave solutions are relied upon by over 6,000 brokerages worldwide, including all of the top 100 U.S. insurance firms. As such, they are the leaders of the insurance tech industry,
Key to their success is their all-on-one technology platform, which includes cloud-based sales management, client delivery, content and analytics solutions. This is embedded with robust data and the most comprehensive content portfolio available,
Events of 2020 have led Zywave to consider establishing a new relationship with a remote Service Provider. The first necessary, then successful, shift to remote work due to Covid-19 has encouraged Zywave to reconsider the location and composition of their engineering team, to where they no longer have to rely solely on the greater Milwaukee market. Additionally, through strategic acquisitions, Zywave has inherited various outsourced groups (4) that, while functional, do not fit into their long-term vision.
The immediate opportunity is to identify and engage a best-aligned Partner to replace at least three of their inherited groups, with a combined headcount of 12. If successful, there are many opportunities for this team to scale.
The initial engagement will start with 3 people (just developers: no QA, no product owners, etc.) who will be incorporated into an existing scrum team. The tech stack is .NET based, running a MySQL database. They will be working on a legacy product, but one that is still very important to the company, and still in very high use. They very much want this team to function as Zywave employees to the greatest extent possible: a fully onboarded team. As Zywave has worked with groups around the world, they are flexible as far as location. An ideal price target would be $40/hour: some price discount would be great but their main interest is getting a pipeline of quality talent.
They would like to start early Q1.
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