Personal Lines Underwriting Director – Strategy Execution

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the comprehensive underwriting guidelines strategy for Personal Lines.

• Spearhead the creation, governance, and enhancement of underwriting rules, decision trees, and eligibility frameworks across various channels and products.

• Outline the strategic roadmap for underwriting models, focusing on risk segmentation, pricing support, and decision automation.

• Convert analytical results into practical underwriting guidance for both automated and human decision-making.

• Establish governance structures for modifications to guidelines, updates to models, and deployments of rules.

• Propel underwriting modernization efforts, including automation, straight-through processing, and model-driven decision-making.

• Collaborate with IT and Delivery teams to execute underwriting strategies within systems and track performance after deployment.

• Create monitoring and feedback mechanisms to evaluate guideline and model effectiveness and suggest improvements.

• Prepare executive-quality materials that clarify underwriting logic, trade-offs, and impacts.

• Lead, mentor, and nurture a team of strategy professionals.

• Represent underwriting strategy in senior leadership discussions and cross-functional design decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of pertinent work experience.

• More than 3 years of demonstrated experience in leading cross-functional teams.

• Profound understanding of underwriting guidelines, decision frameworks, and the practical use of predictive models.

• Capability to translate risk appetite and analytical insights into actionable underwriting rules and guidance.

• Comfort working alongside data science, actuarial, and analytics teams; ability to question and interpret model outcomes.

• Knowledge of system limitations, frontline usability, and executing strategies at scale.

• Proven expertise in guiding teams through significant changes in tools, processes, and work methodologies.

• Track record of success as a people manager, including talent development and performance oversight.

• Aptitude to concisely articulate complex underwriting and modeling concepts to senior leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time, exempt position.

• Option for remote or virtual work arrangement.