Senior Life Underwriter

Summary

Join Ethos, a leading life insurance company, as an Underwriting Process Expert. You will play a crucial role in enhancing our underwriting technology and processes. This position requires a strong understanding of life insurance underwriting, experience with rules engines, and excellent communication skills. You will collaborate with various teams to improve efficiency and automation. The ideal candidate is a visionary problem-solver passionate about creating a best-in-class underwriting experience. Ethos offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Apply today to help us protect the next million families!

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

Preferred Qualifications

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway