Actuary Manager

Summary

Join Extend's centralized Risk, Analytics and Data Science team as an Actuary and play a key role in premium pricing and risk monitoring. You will enhance risk mitigation and profitability, develop new tools, and collaborate across functions. This role offers the chance to move beyond traditional actuarial work and contribute to a fast-growing company. You will own premium pricing, frequency estimates, and loss ratio forecasts for product protection offerings. The position requires strong analytical skills and experience in actuarial pricing or a related field. Extend offers a competitive salary, benefits, and stock options.

Requirements

• Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS) or equivalent exam experience, working towards FCAS preferred
• Solid analytical skills including but not limited to Structural Query language (SQL), Programming language (Python or R), and a BI tool like Tableau or Looker
• 8+ years of actuarial pricing or related experience - warranty, large account pricing, or predictive modeling is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
• Ability to dive deep into data and communicate insights to audiences of all backgrounds, especially to teams with less data & analytics experience
• Ability and interest in thinking beyond the insurance organization, considering the challenges of other teams, and prioritizing what is best for the business holistically, is essential
• Empathy, humility, and curiosity

Responsibilities

• Own premium pricing, frequency estimates, and loss ratio forecasts for our innovative product protection and shipping protection offerings
• Drive analysis, modeling, and monitoring to estimate and recommend actions aimed at enhancing underwriting results for merchants and programs, alongside experienced actuaries internally and externally
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to establish the highest business priorities and opportunities by measuring expected reach and impact for operations focused teams
• Define and execute on analytics-driven enhancements to current and future products
• Streamline reporting and visualization tools to facilitate the management of our risk portfolio

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with warranty (service contracts) preferred but not required

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience, with full medical and dental & vision benefits
• Stock in an early-stage startup growing quickly
• Generous, flexible paid time off policy
• 401(k) with Financial Guidance from Morgan Stanley