Underwriting Optimization Lead

Posted 19 Days Ago
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Location, WV
Senior level
Insurance • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Underwriting Optimization Lead will enhance underwriting practices within Coalition's Cyber and Executive Risk divisions. Responsibilities include establishing global underwriting standards, monitoring performance for consistency, collaborating across teams to maintain profitability, and identifying automation opportunities to improve efficiency.
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About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the role

We are looking for a highly seasoned and technical underwriting professional to support and optimize Coalition’s rapidly growing global underwriting efforts in Cyber and Executive Risk. This role requires extensive experience in underwriting best practices, a deep understanding of industry standards, and strong analytical and collaborative skills to drive underwriting consistency, profitability, and efficiency.

This position is fully remote.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development and enforcement of global underwriting standards, best practices, and underwriting authority levels.
  • Optimize performance by monitoring and enforcing audit criteria to ensure underwriting quality and consistency.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to maintain profitability across all segments, ensuring underwriting practices align with performance standards.
  • Foster active engagement with Underwriting Leaders by working together on referrals, escalations, and continuously improving processes to ensure alignment and superior outcomes. 
  • Work with Product and cross-functional teams to identify and implement automation opportunities that streamline underwriting processes and improve efficiency.

Skills and Qualifications

  • 8+ years of deep knowledge of Cyber, Tech E&O, MPL, and ER underwriting, including understanding of risk assessments, policy structuring, and market trends.
  • Strong collaboration for working across teams, building consensus, and driving initiatives forward
  • In-depth experience in identifying and implementing automation opportunities within underwriting processes, with strong understanding of product, tooling, and underwriting workflows.
  • Excellent communication with ability to convey complex ideas to diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders.

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $135,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $170,000/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Perks

  • 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
  • Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)!
  • Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition? 

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.

Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion. 

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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Privacy Notice

Coalition is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. We collect, use, and store personal information as necessary for the recruitment process and in compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations in all regions where we operate. We want you to understand what personal information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding access, correction, and deletion of your data where applicable. Information submitted, collected, and processed as part of your application is subject to Coalition's Privacy Policy. For further details, please review our full Privacy Policy or contact us with any questions regarding how your information is handled.

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Anti-Discrimination Notice

Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.


Accommodations

Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at [email protected]. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.


To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Top Skills

Cyber
Er
Mpl
Tech E&O
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
618 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Coalition is the leading provider of cyber insurance and security, combining comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate cyber risk. Coalition’s unique product offerings combine best-in-class insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help keep businesses safe.

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