Underwriting Program Leader

🔥 22 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $137k - $196k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Underwriter

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Nirvana Insurance

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51 - 200 employees

🛡️ Insurance

Insurance

Nirvana Insurance is on a mission to modernize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. Their technology platform provides modern insurance and risk management solutions to help customers protect their businesses while improving safety for everyone. Nirvana is transforming the legacy commercial insurance industry, valued over $750B, through predictive models using real-time IoT data, automation for instantaneous quotes and faster underwriting, and proactive, data-driven insights for accident prevention. The company is backed by top-tier venture capital firms and led by a team with extensive experience in scaling large companies.

📋 Description

• Develop the program’s strategy, risk appetite, underwriting guidelines and operating rhythm with senior leadership • Serve as lead line underwriter, evaluating and pricing risks • Own new business and renewals • Build wholesale and retail distribution networks and set production goals • Manage brokerage relationships and represent the program in the market • Collaborate with senior leadership, engineering, product and data science to shape the platform, underwriting workflows and operating procedures • Own relationships with reinsurers and capacity partners • Be accountable for portfolio performance, reporting and renewals • Build and lead the underwriting, distribution and operations team as the program scales • Own the program’s P&L, top line and bottom line

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of underwriting experience in a specialty or commercial line • Deep expertise in a defined niche • Track record of managing a large portfolio, ideally $50M+ in premium, profitably and at scale • Clear program thesis covering target niche, profitability, timing, and data/technology advantage • Proven underwriting discipline • Experience writing underwriting guidelines and appetite • Experience building and running broker relationships that drive production • Comfortable using AI and technology to underwrite smarter and scale faster • Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity • Nice to have: experience launching a program or new segment • Nice to have: experience working directly with reinsurers or capacity partners • Nice to have: experience leading an underwriting team

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity • Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) with company match • Unlimited PTO • Work from home friendly • 100% employer paid healthcare plans • Up to 4% 401(k) match program • Paid time off • Parental leave • Wellness reimbursement • Work-from-home stipend • Inclusive and diverse workplace