Jobs at National Life Group

Leads and develops a team of Internal Sales Specialists supporting life insurance and annuity sales. The manager sets performance expectations, provides coaching and training, monitors metrics, strengthens relationships with field sales and agencies, and translates market feedback into sales enablement and process improvements. The role collaborates with Distribution, Operations, Marketing, Product, and Technology teams while supporting talent development, succession planning, service quality, and business results. Up to 10% travel is required.

Supports the design, modeling, pricing, and regulatory approval of indexed and fixed annuity products. Reviews experience studies, sets pricing assumptions, analyzes profitability and sensitivities, prepares actuarial filings and reports, evaluates competitor products, and presents results to senior leadership and business stakeholders. Coordinates consultants, mentors actuarial staff, reviews marketing and policy materials, and ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

Leads actuarial systems analysts responsible for implementing, testing, supporting, and optimizing life insurance and annuity products across policy administration, illustration, and related systems. Oversees product mechanics, calculations, regulatory impacts, production support, project delivery, training, resourcing, and cross-functional problem-solving. Manages performance, develops talent, represents the team enterprise-wide, and drives innovation in testing capabilities and operational processes.

Leads implementation and operationalization of VM-22 principle-based reserving for non-variable annuities. Responsibilities include valuation methodology, assumptions, asset modeling, model development and testing, data validation, controls, documentation, governance, production reporting, and analysis of reserve results. The role partners with Actuarial, Pricing, Investments, IT, Model Governance, Internal Audit, and senior leadership to establish a controlled, repeatable valuation process.

Leads inforce management strategy for Life and Annuities, translating actuarial analysis into profitability, risk, policyholder-value, and competitiveness recommendations. Oversees rate actions, reinsurance strategy, experience studies, Life NGEs, illustration actuary testing, governance, controls, and regulatory alignment. Drives complex cross-functional initiatives, advises senior leadership, develops multi-year roadmaps, and may manage actuarial staff.

Perform life insurance valuation focused on Principle-Based Reserves, experience studies, assumption updates, reserve movement analysis, and statutory, GAAP, and tax reporting. Maintain PBR reports and communicate with auditors and regulators. Analyze policyholder behavior and profitability while partnering with Pricing, FP&A, Inforce Management, modeling, and Tax teams. The role requires advanced knowledge of life insurance valuation, actuarial modeling, GAAP accounting, governance, and financial reporting.

The Associate Actuary will apply actuarial analytics, financial forecasting, valuation, and modeling to support corporate actuarial, finance, risk, and product functions. Responsibilities include developing dashboards and visualizations, analyzing financial and operational results, modernizing actuarial models and data platforms, and evaluating AI, machine learning, automation, and emerging technologies. The role also requires cross-functional collaboration, process improvement, governance, testing, and communicating complex technical findings to business and executive stakeholders.

Leads and supports reinsurance and capital transactions, developing actuarial models to evaluate pricing, capital impacts, risk, and financial outcomes. The role quantifies transactions across statutory, GAAP, economic capital, and RBC frameworks; performs scenario testing, projections, sensitivities, and stress tests; improves capital efficiency; and presents recommendations to senior leadership. It collaborates with finance, pricing, actuarial, and operational teams while monitoring regulatory and modeling developments.

Leads corporate income tax provision, compliance, forecasting, reporting, planning, audits, and internal controls. Oversees federal, state, and local tax activities; manages external advisors; conducts technical research; collaborates with accounting, legal, investment, and financial reporting teams; and mentors tax professionals. The role requires expertise in ASC 740, SSAP 101, tax compliance, tax modeling, and insurance-industry requirements.

Leads quality engineering delivery across business domains, overseeing test planning, automation, requirements traceability, quality metrics, and issue resolution. This role manages geographically dispersed outsourced teams, collaborates with business and engineering stakeholders, advances quality practices using emerging technologies and Agentic AI, and communicates progress to senior leadership. The position requires insurance industry knowledge, strong technical leadership, analytical ability, innovation, and excellent communication skills.

Provides sales support to external wholesalers and field leaders selling life insurance and annuity products. Responsibilities include promoting products through webinars and inbound and outbound calls, identifying sales opportunities, cross-selling, managing call campaigns, presenting to groups, building agent relationships, and recording activities in Salesforce.com. The role is onsite four days per week, offers bilingual pay differentials, and requires up to 10% travel.

Oversee and develop a team of Internal Sales Associates, driving performance through coaching, training, feedback, KPI management, quality audits, and performance reviews. The role supports sales-call processes, product and system knowledge, talent development, and Sales Desk effectiveness projects while collaborating with distribution leadership. Up to 10% travel is required for training and relationship building.

Supports external wholesalers and field leaders by promoting life and annuity products through webinars, inbound and outbound calls, sales campaigns, presentations, and cross-selling. Manages agent relationships, identifies sales opportunities, records activity in Salesforce.com, and helps grow business. The role is primarily onsite four days per week and includes up to 10% travel, with opportunities for advancement into field leadership or home-office roles.

Leads IT financial management for a $150M+ budget, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, cost attribution, and savings tracking. Oversees technology contracts, negotiations, contract lifecycle management, third-party risk, and supplier governance. Partners with the CIO, Finance, Legal, Risk, and executive leadership while managing vendor performance, outsourcing relationships, and internal and external teams. Requires CPA certification, extensive IT finance and vendor-management experience, complex technology contract expertise, and on-site work in Dallas.

Support external wholesalers and field leaders by promoting life and annuity products through webinars and inbound and outbound calls. Identify sales opportunities, cross-sell with agents, execute call campaigns, present to groups, manage inbound calls, and maintain agent activity and profile information in Salesforce. The role offers a base salary, quarterly variable bonus, professional growth opportunities, and an onsite schedule four days per week.

Supports external wholesalers and insurance agents by promoting life and annuity products through webinars, inbound and outbound calls, and sales campaigns. Identifies opportunities, cross-sells, presents to groups, builds agent relationships, records activity in Salesforce.com, and helps grow sales. The role is onsite four days weekly, offers bilingual pay differential, includes up to 10% travel, and may lead to field leadership opportunities.

Leads commercial real estate debt origination, including sourcing opportunities, managing sponsor and broker relationships, underwriting and structuring stabilized, bridge, and construction loans, preparing credit memoranda, negotiating terms, and coordinating closings. Partners with portfolio and asset management teams on risk, diversification, and performance. The role requires a strong commercial real estate lending network, advanced financial modeling, market knowledge, and disciplined credit judgment.

Analyzes and delivers technology solutions across life and annuity product, inforce, illustration, and policy administration systems. Translates business needs into requirements, user stories, testing scenarios, and implementation plans; performs impact and root-cause analysis; coordinates internal teams and vendors; manages risks, dependencies, releases, and production support; and maintains system documentation while advising technical and business stakeholders.

Leads cloud platform design, Azure infrastructure delivery, site reliability engineering, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure automation. Establishes Azure architecture standards, drives adoption of cloud-native services, manages reliability, scalability, performance, capacity, and risk, and supports incident resolution. Partners with engineering, QA, operations, and business stakeholders while promoting ITIL change and problem management. Provides technical leadership, mentors staff, and advances automation, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted operations.

Analyzes residential whole loans and RMBS for trading, portfolio management, asset management, and servicing oversight. Builds pricing and cash-flow models, evaluates prepayment and credit risk, cleans loan-level data, develops portfolio analytics, supports servicing reviews, and maintains data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Databricks. Presents performance insights to portfolio managers and investment committees and supports mortgage transactions and ad hoc analysis.