Insurance Operations Specialist

Summary

Join Thimble, a leading insurtech platform, as an Insurance Operations Specialist to support the Insurance Team in risk selection, review, and implementation of new products. You will assist in developing and maintaining underwriting guidelines, ensuring adherence to Thimble standards, and preparing filings for new products. Responsibilities include monitoring underwriting risk, supporting necessary changes, preparing regulatory notices, and building requirements for quote flow updates. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of P&C experience, including small commercial experience, strong analytical and decision-making skills, and excellent communication abilities. Thimble offers a fully remote work environment, comprehensive benefits, and a unique, innovative culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the P&C segment, including small commercial experience
• Ability to analyze and make decisions quickly and decisively
• Ability to work well and respectfully with others, with minimal supervisions, and in a very fast-paced environment
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects, prioritizing high impact ones
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Microsoft Word and Excel proficiency
• Creative problem solving, not problem identifying
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Assist in the ongoing development, revision, implementation, and maintenance of underwriting guidelines and coverage applications
• Ensure adherence to underwriting guidelines and principles of Thimble Underwriting referrals in accordance with Thimble standards
• Assist members of the Insurance Team where required
• Assist in the preparation of initial filings for new products and filing updates for mature products that do the following
• Contain meaningfully unique features perceived highly valuable by our customer groups
• Allow Thimble to grow significantly in the SMB market
• Solve the basic insurance needs of our customer groups
• Produce an acceptable underwriting profit
• Support the monitoring of and management of Thimble's underwriting risk to deliver target loss ratio while supporting Thimble's mission and strategy
• Provide support for making necessary underwriting changes
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of regulatory notices to insureds
• Support the Insurance Team with the building of requirements for changes to Thimble's customer and broker quote flow, appetite, or form updates

Preferred Qualifications

• Insurtech and/or startup experience
• Experience with a digital underwriting platform

Benefits

• Fully remote company
• Thimble Fridays! (out of office at 12:00pm local time)
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) auto enrollment and matching (100% of the first 3% and 50% of the next 3%)
• PTO: 20 days vacation + 8 floating days + 10 company-wide holidays + 1 VTO (Volunteer Time Off) + unlimited sick time
• Parental Leave: 100% paid 12 weeks + 2 weeks gradual return
• Computer choice of Mac or PC
• Work from home setup reimbursement
• Monthly co-working space and/or child care reimbursement
• Monthly ClassPass credit
• Quarterly wellness reimbursement
• Other health & wellness perks including: One Medical, Teladoc, Talkspace, Kindbody, and Health Advocate
• Virtual events, happy hours, trivia, and fun!