Senior Manager, Underwriting

🕒 July 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Underwriter

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Kettle

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11 - 50 employees

🛡️ Insurance

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Insurance • Artificial Intelligence • Climate Technology

Kettle is an insurance and reinsurance provider for property owners, specializing in regions affected by catastrophic climate events. Leveraging advanced AI technology, Kettle offers comprehensive risk assessment and protection products, including solutions for wildfires and hurricanes. The company aims to mitigate the effects of climate change on the insurance industry, ensuring fair pricing and coverage for property owners at risk from natural disasters. Kettle's proprietary AI models utilize vast amounts of data to accurately predict and manage climate-related risks, offering parametric insurance and reinsurance solutions tailored to the changing climate landscape.

📋 Description

• Underwrite and approve complex commercial property risks, including Ground-Up, Primary, Shared, and other potential placements. • Manage and grow a profitable book of E&S property business while maintaining underwriting discipline and profitability targets. • Establish, implement, and monitor underwriting guidelines, authorities, and best practices. • Evaluate emerging risks, market trends, catastrophe exposures, and competitive conditions to support underwriting strategy. • Ensure consistency in underwriting decisions across the portfolio. • Directly supervise, mentor, and develop a team of underwriters. • Conduct performance management, coaching, training, and professional development activities. • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. • Assist in recruiting, onboarding, and retaining top underwriting talent. • Review underwriting quality and provide technical guidance on complex risks. • Develop and maintain strong relationships with wholesale brokers, carrier partners, and other key stakeholders. • Serve as a senior underwriting representative in broker meetings, industry events, and business development initiatives. • Identify opportunities for profitable growth within existing and prospective distribution relationships. • Collaborate with executive leadership and cross functional teams to develop and launch new products and coverage offerings. • Support expansion into All Other Perils (AOP) property products while maintaining expertise in wildfire and catastrophe-exposed business. • Provide underwriting input for pricing, product design, forms development, and portfolio management initiatives. • Utilize underwriting technology, predictive analytics, and data-driven insights to improve underwriting outcomes. • Ensure compliance with surplus lines regulations, carrier guidelines, delegated authority requirements, and company policies. • Monitor underwriting controls, audit findings, and quality assurance metrics. • Participate in implementation and optimization of underwriting workbench, policy administration, and workflow management platforms. • Support regulatory examinations, carrier audits, and internal compliance reviews. • Participate in underwriting committee meetings and portfolio reviews. • Assist with catastrophe management and aggregation monitoring. • Travel up to 30% for broker visits, conferences, carrier meetings, and business development activities. • Perform other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Risk Management, Insurance, or related field. • Minimum 7+ years of commercial property (E&S) underwriting experience Including experience underwriting wildfire and severe convective storms. • Minimum 5+ years of leadership, supervisory, or management experience in commercial property (E&S) underwriting. • Demonstrated success managing profitable property portfolios. • Strong understanding of commercial property forms, rating methodologies, catastrophe exposures, and risk selection principles. • Experience working with MGA, MGU, Lloyd’s, or delegated authority environments. • Proven track record of developing, maintaining, and growing broker relationships. • Knowledge of surplus lines regulations and regulatory compliance requirements. • Experience underwriting E&S Ground-Up, Primary, and Shared property accounts. • Surplus Lines licenses in home state and multiple non-resident states. • Strong analytical, decision-making, negotiation, and communication skills. • Ability to lead teams and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus opportunity • Comprehensive benefits package. • Eligible for stock options (subject to board approval) • Remote work environment with a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture • Opportunity to help shape a rapidly growing underwriting organization. • Exposure to innovative underwriting technology and advanced risk analytics. • Professional development and leadership growth opportunities.