Senior Manager, Life Underwriting

The role

This role involves leading and mentoring a developing underwriting team. The individual will dedicate 50% of their time to case underwriting and drive strategic efforts to optimize workflows.

What you will do

• Dedicate 50% of the role to case underwriting
• Lead the team with passion, positivity and continual improvement
• Recruit, hire, mentor, and develop underwriting staff domestically and internationally
• Assess quality and headcount
• Perform hiring analysis to flex with growth
• Create and improve onboarding and underwriting training programs
• Develop performance management and quality control systems
• Assist underwriting staff to develop technical and decision making skills
• Drive strategic efforts to optimize underwriting workflows
• Perform quality assurance testing of automated rules and processes

Required qualifications

• 10 to 15 years in Life underwriting
• 7+ years of experience in an underwriting leadership or development role
• Extensive knowledge of life insurance trends and new technology
• Sharp focus on execution and an owner mentality
• Data oriented decision making skills and great intuition
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills

Nice to have

• US based underwriting experience
• Underwriting certification such as LOMA/ALU

About the company

Ethos is a life insurance technology company that uses a three-sided technology platform to transform the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers.