We are seeking a highly engaged Pricing Actuary to join a dynamic team environment for Life Pricing & Profitability. This individual will be organized, detail-oriented and excited to take accountability and ownership for their work.
As a member of the Life Insurance Pricing and Profitability team, you will partner with the Underwriting and Medical teams to evaluate new and existing underwriting programs. You will also monitor key profitability and business metrics and pricing assumptions, taking a holistic approach to assessing emerging experience across the life insurance portfolio. This role offers the opportunity to influence a product line that is critical to the company's success.
The Team
The Life Pricing team is responsible for the pricing and profitability of MassMutual's retail life insurance products. The team is comprised of a group of actuaries and quantitative analysts with extensive experience in life insurance pricing, product development, and modeling. The team is focused on meeting the needs of three key stakeholders - our policyholders, our distribution partners, and our company.
The Impact:
Underwriting Functions
- Represent Pricing and Product Management in the oversight and analysis of the accelerated underwriting program. Partner with internal stakeholders to develop analytics, communicate results, and influence future program enhancements.
- Monitor the MassExpress fluidless underwriting program, including mortality slippage, pass rates, and other key performance indicators, and partner with Underwriting on regular program oversight.
- Partner with New Business, Underwriting and Medical teams to assist in developing and assessing the protective value of key underwriting programs.
- Analyze underwriting performance and other portfolio-level risk indicators to identify emerging trends and support profitability objectives and risk management decisions.
Profitability and Emerging Experience Analytics
- Evaluate large and complex life insurance cases for alignment with profitability guidelines and the company's risk appetite and provide analysis to support placement and capacity decisions.
- Perform analyses using VNB, IRR, profit margin, and other profitability metrics to support underwriting and business decisions.
- Perform sensitivity testing and scenario analysis to assess the impact of key assumptions, emerging risks, and business trends on profitability.
- Develop Power BI dashboards, presentations, and recurring reports that communicate profitability, new business performance, rider utilization, and emerging experience to facilitate management reporting.
- Analyze rider utilization and profitability to identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Support the development, aggregation, validation, and communication of quarterly VNB reporting.
- Monitor, analyze and report on key business KPIs, providing insights to support strategic decision-making.
Product Design and Pricing
- Support life insurance product pricing by helping to develop assumptions for new products and maintaining clear documentation of final pricing decisions and assumptions.
- Provide ad hoc actuarial analysis and support for pricing, profitability, and product initiatives.
The Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
- ASA designation
- 5+ years of actuarial experience in pricing, experience studies or related actuarial functions.
- 1+ years of experience working with life insurance products
- 2+ years of experience actuarial models
The Ideal Qualifications
- FSA Designation
- Experience with accelerated underwriting programs a plus
- Experience with using Power BI, experience studies and data management a plus
- Life insurance pricing experience, along with exposure to coding/programming are a plus
- Ability to interact with technical and non-technical audiences at all levels, within and across organizational boundaries
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills: ability to document complex issues, methodologies, and resolutions such that others can readily understand them
- Ability to use a disciplined work approach to initiatives, projects, and day-to-day activities
- Ability to work cross-functionally to reconcile competing priorities while meeting organizational objectives
- Sound business judgment in an environment of rapid change, and the ability to respond to changes in direction, tight deadlines, and high-pressure situations
- Comfortable dealing with both complexity and ambiguity, and able to explore multiple solutions to a problem
- Takes ownership and is results-orientated
What You Can Expect at MassMutual
MassMutual offers the opportunity to do meaningful work within a purpose-driven organization that values long-term impact over short-term outcomes. In this role, you can expect:
- Clear areas of ownership and accountability, with work that connects directly to company and customer outcomes
- A collaborative environment where perspectives are welcomed
- Access to learning, development, and internal networks that support continuous growth and skill-building over time
- Employee-led communities and forums that foster connection, learning, and inclusion across the organization
- A culture grounded in integrity, responsibility, and stewardship-supported by a company with a strong legacy and a future-focused mindset
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Salary Range: $144,800-$190,000
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
- ASA designation
- 5+ years of actuarial experience in pricing, experience studies, or related actuarial functions
- 1+ years of experience working with life insurance products
- 2+ years of experience with actuarial models
- FSA designation
- Experience with accelerated underwriting programs
- Experience using Power BI, experience studies, and data management
- Life insurance pricing experience and exposure to coding or programming
- Ability to communicate complex issues and methodologies to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally and manage competing priorities
- Sound business judgment and ability to work under changing priorities, tight deadlines, and pressure
MassMutual Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does MassMutual ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
MassMutual provides market-competitive salaries and generous incentive pay opportunities for all employees. Whether an employee is just starting out, transitioning to a new career, or joining us as a seasoned leader — we value their contributions.
- Competitive Salary and Bonus offerings: MassMutual’s base salaries reward and recognize employees’ experience, skills and performance. Our salary ranges are regularly benchmarked within our industry and the broader job market to ensure competitiveness. Additionally, all MassMutual employees have the opportunity to receive competitive, performance-based bonuses, either annually or more frequently.
- Annual Incentive Plan (AIP): AIP awards are discretionary and based on individual and company performance, with opportunities to earn above-target bonuses in years with exceptional results. These awards consider not only what results a person achieved, but how they achieved them, rewarding behaviors that help create a productive and welcoming work environment for everyone.
- Employees in sales roles participate in our variable incentive compensation (VIC) program instead of AIP. VIC provides incentive pay awards commensurate with results for individuals in roles that directly influence sales.
- Employees in sales roles participate in our variable incentive compensation (VIC) program instead of AIP. VIC provides incentive pay awards commensurate with results for individuals in roles that directly influence sales.
- Pay transparency and pay equity: MassMutual publishes salary ranges in job postings and is committed to promoting pay equity. This includes providing pay equity training to managers, reviewing the pay of employees who perform similar work as a standard practice when making compensation recommendations, and partnering regularly with independent external experts to check our work.
- Benefits as part of Total Rewards: MassMutual invests in every aspect of their employees’ well-being, providing a rewards package that goes far beyond a paycheck to support them physically, mentally, and financially. Their robust healthcare, retirement and protection benefits provide a range of support through all of life’s big moments — and, over the years, they have expanded their pioneering leave programs so employees can better care for themselves and the people they love.
- Health benefits: MassMutual offers a comprehensive suite of health and wellness benefits, focusing on solutions that support holistic well-being, aimed at improving access and outcomes for all, and provide flexibility to meet our employees’ and their families’ unique needs. Employees value our wide array of benefits, with one sales assistant citing “great benefits and lots of flexibility,” and another employee describing the company’s “good leadership and benefits.” (MassMutual Careers Benefits; Glassdoor). In a 2026 employee survey, one employee noted “The organization offers a wide range of programs and benefits that meaningfully support employees and foster a positive, inclusive culture.”
- Retirement and financial benefits: MassMutual provides a 401(k) plan contribution of up to 10% of eligible compensation, including up to 5% company match on employee deferrals and, for all eligible employees, a 5% annual company contribution. The company also treats eligible student loan payments like 401(k) contributions for matching purposes. The company provides a Retiree Health Reimbursement Account to eligible employees; monthly credits start at age 45. (MassMutual Careers Benefits; MassMutual 2025 Annual Report)
- Additional health programs: MassMutual offers additional benefits such as a health savings account, access to a broad network of mental health resources and providers for employees and their family members, and resources like medical and surgery decision support, healthcare navigation services, and more. All employees also have access to a Well-Being Wallet, where they can be reimbursed for up to $1,250 per year for eligible physical, mental, or financial wellness related expenses.
- Other benefits: Employees have access to an array of resources to help strengthen their overall well-being and protect the ones they love, at every stage of life. Whether growing their family, volunteering in their community, planning their legacy, or looking to save on everyday expenses like pet or auto insurance, we offer financial benefits and corporate discounts to help.
- Employee Feedback on Benefits: MassMutual conducts regular employee surveys, and benefits continuously receive positive feedback. In their 2026 survey, one employee said “...the total benefits program here at MassMutual has to be one of the best, if not the very best. It seems this company goes out of its way to make sure their employees are well taken care of." With another employee sharing “The Well-Being Wallet, education reimbursement, time off & leave programs are top notch and unlike anything I've experienced”.
- Time off & leaves: MassMutual’s flexible time-off and leave programs support employees’ well-being, help them care for loved ones, and balance personal priorities. Offerings include inclusive caregiver, bereavement, and other essential leaves; generous parental leave and financial support for adoption and surrogacy; up to 24 hours of paid volunteer time annually; and generous vacation, flexible holidays, companywide paid holidays and remote work weeks, and five “take care days.”
- External signals:
- Benefits value: Employees on external review sites regularly highlight benefits as a strength, with reviews calling out “excellent benefits,” “great benefits” and a “great benefits package.” (Glassdoor; Indeed)
- Benefits and retention: Employees surveyed on external review sites rate MassMutual’s perks and benefits an A-, with 100% saying perks and benefits play a role in staying at the company. (Comparably)
Bottom line: MassMutual supports employee wellbeing through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, strong retirement contributions, and benefits designed to support the financial, physical, and mental well-being of employees and their families.
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