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Skyward Specialty Insurance

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🤝 B2B

💸 Finance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $177.3M Post-IPO Secondary - Skyward Specialty on 2024-05

B2B • Finance • Healthcare Insurance

Skyward Specialty Insurance is a Houston-based specialty insurance group that provides tailored risk solutions across niche and complex markets. The company offers a range of specialty insurance products including transactional Excess & Surplus (E&S), professional lines, medical stop-loss, surety, captives, programs, global property, agriculture & credit (re)insurance, and risk consulting. Skyward works primarily with brokers and agents, leverages technology (including e-surety capabilities) to deliver innovative underwriting and claims services, and focuses on high-complexity, non-standard risks and scalable specialty solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of 7 underwriters, reporting directly to the President of E&S Property & Casualty and Inland Marine • Own the underwriting direction, risk appetite, and portfolio composition of the E&S Excess Liability book • Set and enforce underwriting standards, attachment point discipline, coverage structure guidelines, and pricing parameters consistent with the book's profitability objectives • Lead complex and large-account underwriting decisions; serve as the technical authority and escalation point for the team • Maintain clear appetite boundaries — avoid invasive medical, NY Labor Law exposure • Structure layered excess solutions above both occurrence and claims-made underlying policies • Monitor and actively manage loss ratios, combined ratios, and portfolio trends by class and segment; take corrective action when performance deteriorates • Partner with actuarial and finance on pricing adequacy, rate monitoring, and reserving inputs for an excess book • Track submission flow, hit ratios, and renewal retention • Manage premium concentration by class • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 7 excess liability underwriters

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of E&S or specialty casualty/excess liability underwriting experience, with meaningful time in a wholesale/non-admitted environment • Prior leadership experience managing underwriting teams; comfortable operating as both a strategic leader and technical contributor • Demonstrated track record of building or managing a profitable excess liability book across a diverse commercial class mix • Deep knowledge of commercial excess and umbrella underwriting, including attachment point analysis, underlying policy review, and coverage gap identification • Strong command of coverage structure for both occurrence and claims-made underlying policies • Familiarity with ISO and proprietary excess forms across multiple lines • Experience underwriting a diverse class mix including contractors, habitational, amusement, and new ventures • Ability to evaluate underlying carrier quality and program structure for risks with non-standard primary placements • Strong communicator and relationship builder

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and welfare benefits • Tuition and professional certification assistance • 401k savings • Elective participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program • Paid time off • Paid holidays • Child bonding leave • Other employee assistance