Ethos is hiring a
Life Underwriter

Summary

Join Ethos, a company that makes it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. As a visionary with ability to communicate across departments effectively, you'll partner with end-users of Ethos systems and engineers to create a constant and virtuous cycle of improvements on our underwriting ecosystem.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of life new business underwriting and case management experience
• Extensive experience with underwriting rules engines and rules management
• Comfortable working in an agile environment and leveraging systems such as JIRA
• An understanding of data and models in the underwriting process
• The ability to communicate results and needs among multiple parties
• A record of identifying opportunities and quickly delivering solutions
• Desire to be a team player in a dynamic environment
• An obsession with the customer and ability to challenge the status quo

Responsibilities

• Ongoing analysis and monitoring of rules engine and workbench performance
• Continued review of evidence and synthesization of underwriting data from all sources
• Work with Head of Underwriting Strategies to assess business risk for changes to underwriting guidelines
• Creation of specific recommendations and action plans to drive automated underwriting decisions and process improvement across underwriting and case management
• Act as both an owner and contributor to multiple projects and initiatives
• Solidify protocols for rule and system enhancements
• Maintain appropriate documentation for underwriting criteria, guidelines and workflows
• Ability to prioritize system decisions based on business need, business case and ROI
• Serve as underwriting process expert and liaison to work cross-functionally with colleagues and partners in product, engineering, operations, finance, marketing, legal, etc
• Ensure end-user proficiency with new systems, programs, and applications across departments through onboarding training and regular updates
• Work with engineers to serve as a business liaison in order to efficiently integrate new data, models, partners programs, and applications as the need arises