Underwriting Quality Assurance Lead / Warren, NJ or NYC

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Are you ready to take a leadership role in driving underwriting excellence across the organization? As the Underwriting Quality Assurance Lead, you’ll oversee the quality and accuracy of underwriting decisions, processes, and documentation. You’ll lead audits, ensure compliance with internal and regulatory standards, and implement strategic improvements that elevate underwriting performance.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will:

• Improve underwriting behaviors and foster excellence by ensuring consistent adherence to guidelines and best practices.

• Develop tactical approaches to minimize underwriting risks and identify errors before they impact business performance.

• Monitor emerging risks across lines of business, divisions, and the group, and escalate critical findings to senior leadership, the Management Audit Committee (MAC), and Corporate Underwriting.

• Lead specialized audits, formulate corrective actions, and recommend improvements aligned with underwriting goals.

• Conduct spot audits and underwriting process reviews to assess risk evaluations, pricing, policy issuance, and overall accuracy.

• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

• Prepare clear, concise reports and documentation for leadership.

• Collaborate across departments and communicate findings effectively.

What You Bring

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• At least 10 years of skilled underwriting experience, with a proven track record of leading teams and driving quality assurance initiatives.

• Technical underwriting expertise, especially in first-party lines and/or casualty.

• Experience writing comprehensive compliance plans and reports.

• Strong attention to detail and hands-on experience with audits and compliance checks.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

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For New York and New Jersey only: The base salary range for this position is $120,000 - $160,000 annually. The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, experience, qualifications and work location.

All offers include access to a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

What if I don’t meet every requirement? At Everest we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every element in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout the application or interview process.

Our Culture

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Click here to learn more about our culture. 

• Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Inclusion and Belonging.
• Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.  

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve. 

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Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Everest Benefits at [email protected].

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