Head Actuary

Summary

Join Sana as their Head Actuary to lead and manage their core actuarial and underwriting functions. You will oversee pricing, reserving, quoting, reinsurance, plan design, and regulatory strategy, while also consulting on strategic initiatives. This role requires significant experience in the level-funded industry and leading high-performing actuarial teams. The ideal candidate will possess a collaborative and flexible entrepreneurial mindset, working closely with various leaders across the company. You will be responsible for the long-term performance of Sana’s loss ratios and building relationships with reinsurance partners. This position offers a chance to contribute meaningfully to product development and drive innovation in predictive modeling and data analysis.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant work experience, of which a meaningful portion must be in the level-funded and/or medical stop loss industry, and credentialed actuary (ASA or FSA, MAAA)
• Exceptional analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to look at data regularly to find trends, drill down into cases as needed, and take data-informed action accordingly
• Experience with SQL, Excel, and business intelligence tools such as Mode/Tableau is required
• Proficient in the financial reporting requirements of insurance companies, including statutory, GAAP, and tax reporting
• Excellent people manager and strong team player with a track record of working cross-functionally
• Outstanding communication skills in-person, over the phone, in writing, via email, chat, carrier pigeon, etc
• Unparalleled attention to detail
• Gritty
• You are mission-driven
• You ask questions from a place of genuine curiosity and humility
• You assume positive intent and meet your teammates with compassionate candor to solve problems together
• You remain flexible, resilient, and foster a culture of continuous learning even in the face of hardship
• You bring a bias for action paired with intelligent risk-taking
• You follow through on your commitments and foster trust with your colleagues

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic vision and delivery of excellent work for the actuarial and underwriting team
• Lead and continue to build a high-performing team consisting of actuaries and underwriters
• Develop and foster plans for continued career growth through regular coaching, consistent 1:1s, feedback sessions, problem solving, and Q&A during normal business hours
• Manage the long-term performance of Sana’s loss ratios while owning the day-to-day functions related to our proprietary rate manual, predictive analytics partners, pricing, and reserving; at the same time, strategically balance areas of profitability to deliver competitive rates, maximize Sana’s profitability, and manage cash flow
• Build enduring relationships with our reinsurance treaty partners and own the day-to-day relationships with our stop loss broker, fronting carriers, rating manual, and risk/data providers to ensure Sana has sufficient reinsurance capacity at desirable terms
• Support the smooth running of new business and renewal quoting while managing ad hoc trade-offs on difficult underwriting, pricing or reserving issues with the right blend of judgment and data-informed decision-making, including any escalations during normal business hours
• Contribute meaningfully to the development of our insurance products: policy contracts, rate plans, actuarial factors, and rating methods, state filings, expense ratio analysis, and underwriting rules
• Work cross-functionally with a variety of stakeholders to support strategic initiatives related to financial forecasting, data analytics, regulatory strategy, provider contracting, care delivery, partnership, and product development
• Develop a deep understanding of Sana’s claims and medical data in order to deliver insightful, detailed analyses on all things related to medical economics at Sana
• Responsible for monthly as well as ad hoc reporting on our underwriting performance, loss ratio results, and other relevant findings to core stakeholders, from external parties such as reinsurance partners and fronting carriers to internal stakeholders across all departments
• Issue actuarial opinions regarding Sana’s written insurance contracts, including loss ratio projections and sufficiency of reserves and capital, as needed
• Drive innovation in Sana’s predictive modeling and data analysis methods in collaboration with our Product, Data, and Engineering teams
• Generally improve our approach to underwriting based on performance and price competitiveness to take calculated risks and drive best-in-class small group underwriting

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus points for prior experience in high-growth startups and/or the Insurtech space

Benefits

• Stock options in rapidly scaling startup
• Flexible vacation
• Medical, dental, and vision Insurance
• 401(k) and HSA plans
• Parental leave
• Remote worker stipend
• Opportunity for career growth
• Dynamic start-up environment