Director, Regulatory Affairs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Utah.

📋 Description

• Establish and oversee Nearmap's insurance regulatory affairs function.

• Develop regulatory strategies and engage with regulators, legislators, industry advocacy groups, and insurance clients.

• Monitor bulletins, bills, regulatory filings, and legislation impacting imagery and AI.

• Publish regulatory stances and create state-specific playbooks.

• Serve as the designated Nearmap contact throughout the filing lifecycle, from pre-filing consultations to objection responses and post-approval maintenance.

• Responsible for the regulatory strategy regarding registrations, filings, and filing methodologies.

• Collaborate with insurance carriers to formulate regulatory approaches.

• Direct objection response strategies incorporating actuarial and data science insights.

• Manage relationships with advisory organizations and subscriber mechanics.

• Develop and sustain the registration strategy for advisory organizations.

• Collaborate with the Legal team on privilege, contractual, and compliance inquiries.

• Oversee the entire Nearmap rate filing programs, including scoping, materials preparation, submission coordination, tracking, objection responses, and closure.

• Organize a library of rate filing materials, including model memos, validation summaries, and methodology documentation.

• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of state-specific filing requirements, confidentiality treatments, and filer eligibility.

• Manage version control and re-filing necessitated by model updates, new attributes, validation discoveries, or regulator feedback.

• Track regulatory filings across all states and maintain a database of rating plans utilizing aerially derived data.

• Monitor activities from NAIC, NAMIC, and NCOIL while representing Nearmap's viewpoint.

• Provide guidance to product and data science teams on filing implications prior to the release of new attributes and scores.

• Equip Sales, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success teams with accurate filing-history information.

• Create filing schedules, metrics, and playbooks tailored for the insurance sector.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8 to 12 years of experience in property and casualty rate filings, regulatory affairs, or state product management.

• Experience specifically in personal lines property.

• Hands-on experience managing complete filing lifecycles and direct interaction with state insurance regulators.

• Experience in California is a notable advantage.

• Proficient in preparing regulator-ready materials such as filing narratives, methodology summaries, actuarial exhibits, statistical plans, forms, and rate pages.

• Bachelor's degree in insurance, actuarial science, public policy, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Familiarity with SERFF and multi-state prior-approval processes.

• Ability to convert model documentation and validation results into language accepted by regulators.

• Capable of managing multiple concurrent deadlines.

• Skilled in collaborating with carrier actuarial and regulatory teams.

• Excellent writing skills with the ability to clarify technical methods to reviewers.

• Actuarial credentials such as ASA or ACAS, or relevant regulatory training or certification.

• Previous experience on the regulator side within a department of insurance.

• Experience with AI, predictive models, or catastrophe model filings.

• Knowledge of model governance frameworks.

• Experience establishing or maintaining advisory or rating organization status.

🏝️ Benefits

• Four additional "YOU" days off each year.

• Company-sponsored volunteering days.

• Generous parental leave policies.

• Work from Overseas Policy—explore the world in approved cities while you work.

• Discounted private health insurance plans.

• A Nearmap subscription.