VP of Underwriting Automation

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $300k - $320k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Underwriter

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Ethos

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Ethos is a life insurance provider offering a fast and convenient way for customers to apply for and receive life insurance coverage. Specializing in no-medical-exam policies, Ethos allows individuals to secure life insurance quickly, with coverage options ranging from term life for various durations to guaranteed whole life policies. The company emphasizes ease of use, providing online tools such as coverage calculators and educational resources, as well as customer and agent support. Ethos also offers additional benefits like estate planning aids as part of its insurance packages.

📋 Description

• Direct the deployment of automated underwriting solutions and establish strategic objectives. • Leverage low/no-code platforms to deliver continuous improvements to underwriting rules, owning the full delivery cycle from definition through testing and delivery. • Engage Engineering to develop new capabilities and translate underwriting methodologies into scalable platform capabilities. • Maintain accountability for auto-decisioning rates and the qualitative performance of algorithmic results. • Oversee rule governance, including design, documentation, preservation standards, testing protocols, and quality-audit feedback loops. • Build high-trust partnerships with carrier counterparts, negotiate balance points, and influence secure automation integration into carrier programs. • Mentor and develop second-line leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of ten (10) years of underwriting expertise within the life insurance sector, including a proven background in leading large-scale transformation initiatives. • At least five (5) years of leadership experience, demonstrating the capacity to guide cross-functional teams amidst organizational ambiguity. • Proven accountability for the strategic management and deployment of underwriting rules engines and governance frameworks at an enterprise scale. • Demonstrated history of executing complex, high-stakes projects from conceptualization through operational deployment. • Substantial experience directly managing carrier and reinsurer relationships. • Fluency in risk selection data and predictive models. • Practical experience collaborating with Actuarial functions to conduct mortality assessments and align underwriting standards with actuarial expectations. • Track record of challenging traditional methodologies in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. • Significant familiarity with governance and operational oversight of accelerated or fully automated underwriting programs. • Professional history of operating effectively across a geographically distributed or global underwriting organization.

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Equity • US benefits (further details provided on Ethos careers page)