Senior Vice President – Underwriting

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🕒 January 28

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OpenBright

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1 - 10 employees

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

Charity • Education

OpenBright is a foundation dedicated to awarding grants for women's research in computing. They work closely with partner universities to support research endeavors, focusing on promoting gender diversity within the field. The foundation organizes funding calls and provides detailed guidance on application processes and requirements. OpenBright is committed to empowering women in tech by offering financial support and fostering an inclusive environment for innovation and change.

📋 Description

• Take full accountability for underwriting outcomes across multiple lines, segments, and channels. Jointly drive growth, profitability, and loss ratio management. • Define underwriting appetite, pricing, coverage standards, and referral thresholds. • Review high-impact and high-growth risks, ensuring decisions scale without sacrificing quality. • Partner with Data and Product teams to test new underwriting signals. • Design controlled experiments and move successful signals into standard underwriting rules. • Identify profitable growth opportunities and maintain underwriting speed at scale. • Partner strategically with Business Development to unlock expansion. • Mentor and grow underwriting managers and senior underwriters. • Build a culture of accountability, learning, and disciplined judgment. • Serve as a senior underwriting point of contact, embedding carrier guidelines and capacity into everyday decisions.

🎯 Requirements

• 10–15+ years underwriting experience, with deep Workers’ Compensation expertise • Senior underwriting leadership experience in an MGA, program, or high-growth carrier environment • Demonstrated track record of improving loss ratio while supporting aggressive growth • Experience operationalizing data- or technology-driven underwriting insights • Strong underwriting judgment and comfort making decisions with incomplete data

🏖️ Benefits

• Fast-paced startup environment where your ideas can quickly become reality • Opportunity to wear multiple hats and grow beyond your job description • Remote-first culture with home office support • Comprehensive health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA) • 401(k) plan and life insurance • Flexible time off and 12 weeks parental leave • Professional development reimbursement