Lead Actuary

About Mission Underwriting Services

At Mission Underwriters, we provide the capital, issuing paper, and reinsurance access you need to launch your own Program Administrator (PA) business quickly and efficiently. We offer non-recourse capital for qualified underwriters, giving you a manageable risk profile with potential equity upside. By taking care of administrative complexities like compliance, risk management, accounting, and HR, we free you to focus on what you do best underwriting and distribution. Our turnkey platform gets you into the market in just a few months, minimizing disruption to your key relationships. With access to our network of highly rated issuing carriers and reinsurance partners, you can secure coverage with less stress and uncertainty. Built from the ground up, our purpose-driven technology simplifies workflows, enhances responsiveness, and eliminates the burden of outdated legacy systems.

What We Offer:

• Remote First Work Environment (US Based)

• Medical, Dental, Vision

• 401K, 401K Match

• Life and Disability Benefits

• Unaccrued Paid Time Off

• 11 Paid Holidays

• Employee Discounts

• Employee Assistance Program

• Educational Assistance Program

• Employee Referral Program

• Paid Parental Leave

About the role

As the Lead Actuary, you will lead pricing, analytics, and portfolio understanding for loss sensitive insurance programs. This role will design and maintain actuarial frameworks for programs featuring significant risk retention.

What you'll do

• Develop and own experience rating and loss-sensitive pricing models for complex commercial programs.
• Produce loss picks, expected loss ratios, and risk loads across multi-year structures.
• Evaluate program features such as SIR layers, corridor terms, aggregate limits, profit-share, commutation triggers, and reinstatements.
• Document pricing assumptions and ensure adherence to internal pricing standards.

• Build monitoring dashboards for program performance vs. plan (loss emergence, frequency/severity trends, development, burn costs).
• Conduct quarterly/annual rate adequacy and profitability reviews for loss-sensitive portfolios. Identify drivers of deviation (claims handling, attachment points, industry shifts, social inflation, etc.) and recommend corrective actions.

• Serve as actuarial lead in underwriting committee and deal review meetings.
• Translate technical outputs into clear business recommendations.
• Provide mentorship/training to analysts and underwriters on loss-sensitive mechanics

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of actuarial experience in P&C insurance.
• Practical, hands-on pricing experience in loss sensitive programs (umbrella/excess GL, excess auto liability, property and others).
• Cat modeling experience, either through vendor models (e.g., RMS, AIR, CoreLogic) or advanced internal stochastic / scenario-based tail modeling.
• ACAS/FCAS (or international equivalent). Near-Fellow with strong relevant experience will definitely be considered.
• Advanced analytical skills in Excel and actuarial tooling; ability to build transparent, auditable models.
• Proven ability to communicate complex risk concepts clearly to underwriting and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience pricing loss sensitive programs.
• Experience with casualty catastrophe / clash / accumulation modeling.
• Proficiency in one or more of: Python, R, SQL, VBA, or modern actuarial platforms.

Working Conditions:

·        Requires a quiet work environment with regular sitting at a computer for extended periods of time.

·        Regular use of hands and fingers.

·        Frequent talking or hearing.

·        Vision requirements: Close, distance, color, peripheral, focus and depth perception.

Additional Information
This is a remote position. Planned, in-office activities may be required on occasion (typically 2-4x per year).

You must live in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States without requirement of employment sponsorship/visa.