Regional Underwriting Leader

Summary

Join Coalition as a Small Business Regional Underwriting Leader and help clients solve cyber risk. This remote leadership role, based ideally in the Dallas or Atlanta metro areas, involves managing a team of underwriters and business development professionals. You will provide guidance, training, and mentorship while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve risk management. The position requires significant experience in cyber and technology underwriting and team leadership. Coalition offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of management experience with demonstrated success in underwriting cyber and tech primary and excess business
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and train less experienced underwriters
• Track record of productive cross-team collaboration
• Experience handling a high volume of business
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (verbal & written)
• Aptitude to learn technical concepts/terms

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of small business underwriters and business development professionals with varying levels of experience, including employee selection, professional development, and performance management
• Provide regular guidance to team members, including feedback on compliance with guidelines, underwriting judgment, commercial judgment, and file documentation based on regular file reviews
• Partner with Business Development and Production Underwriting leaders in assigned territory to manage relationships with key trading partners and achieve both loss ratio and growth goals
• Provide training and subject matter expertise to the entire Risk Engineering team on assigned subjects
• Demonstrate and reinforce our core values of Character, Humility, Responsibility, Purpose, Authenticity and Diversity in daily job performance
• Adjust work assignments to optimize performance against established SLA’s and ensure reasonable workloads for all team members
• Work with other Risk Engineering leaders in the management of the overall SME portfolio and the balance of work among the teams
• Collaborate with Actuarial, Data, Claim, CIR, Engineering, Product and Security teams to improve the management of SME risks via new or amended policy language, underwriting guidelines, business rules and practices, etc
• Work with the Business Development and Programs team to evaluate affinity opportunities and develop coverage, pricing and service offerings for them

Preferred Qualifications

• Existing relationships with broker partners in the Southeast territory
• Prior technical leadership/subject matter expertise experience
• Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement