Director of Underwriting

🔥 50 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $250k - $350k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📋 Underwriter

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Ledgebrook

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🛡️ Insurance

🤝 B2B

💸 Finance

💰 $65M Series C on 2025-07

Insurance • B2B • Finance

<Ledgebrook> is a tech-enabled Excess & Surplus (E&S) managing general agent (MGA) that provides fast, data-driven quoting and underwriting services to wholesale brokers. Ledgebrook combines a next-generation tech stack, modeling and analytics, and experienced underwriters to deliver rapid, streamlined submissions and casualty products such as general liability and professional liability.

📋 Description

• Set and maintain enterprise underwriting appetite, standards, and guidelines across all programs in coordination with the CPO and CRO’s Actuarial function • Supervise and develop the Underwriting Manager(s); review program-level underwriting audits and sign off on findings requiring escalation • Own the underwriting side of new-program due diligence (“underwrite the underwriter”) jointly with Business Development • Escalate go/no-go recommendations to the CPO • Serve as the senior underwriting authority in BAA negotiations, including binding authority limits, referral thresholds, and underwriting guideline provisions • Work with Legal on final BAA language • Track underwriting audit findings through remediation across the book • Report portfolio-level underwriting quality trends to the CPO • Coordinate with Actuarial and Claims on loss experience, emerging trends, and guideline changes across programs

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of P&C underwriting experience, including 4+ years managing or supervising underwriters in a delegated-authority/MGA-oversight environment • Track record setting underwriting guidelines and appetite for a book of business, not just executing within them • Experience negotiating binding authority agreement underwriting terms directly with program partners • CPCU, AU, or equivalent underwriting designation (nice to have) • Prior fronting-carrier, program administrator, or MGA-side underwriting leadership experience (nice to have) • Experience across multiple lines of business relevant to Stonehaven’s target programs (nice to have) • Authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored work authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Full remote flexibility and asynchronous work culture • Unlimited PTO and fully paid sick leave • Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage • HSA and FSA options • 401(k) • Company-paid life insurance • Disability coverage • Equity incentive program