Senior Underwriter

Summary

Join Attune, a company revolutionizing small business insurance, as a Senior Underwriter specializing in Workers' Compensation. You will be responsible for reviewing applications, pricing policies, and managing a portfolio of risks. This role requires strong analytical and communication skills, along with experience in the West Coast Workers' Compensation market. You will collaborate with agents, customers, and internal teams to improve processes and enhance customer satisfaction. Attune offers a remote-first culture, flexible PTO, generous parental leave, 401k matching, excellent benefits, and tuition reimbursement. The ideal candidate will have five or more years of underwriting experience in Workers' Compensation and a solid understanding of the CA WCIRB and NCCI.

Requirements

• In addition to the competencies outlined below, a successful candidate will have two or more years previous experience working directly with customers and agents and be comfortable operating in a sales environment
• Five or more years underwriting experience in Workers Compensation required

Responsibilities

• Utilize knowledge to review applications and policies, ensuring that policies are accurately priced, while following bureau rules and state statutes
• Use data analytics and pricing tools to appropriately price workers’ compensation policies and identify actionable insights for customers
• Stay abreast of industry trends, regulations, and best practices
• Regularly assess and maintain a balanced spread of risk across the portfolio (industries, states, regions)
• Promote diversification of risk and proper mix of business types
• Ensure adequate classification using background knowledge and 3rd party solutions
• Leverage sales techniques to build long-term relationships with our partners at Attune, customers and agents, guiding them through the sales process, and adding value to their business through the creation and use of commercial insights
• Educate and guide customers and agents on workers’ compensation insurance
• Partner with agents/account managers to identify and implement growth opportunities
• Proactively identify opportunities to streamline underwriting processes and enhance efficiency
• Leverage new technology solutions and 3rd party vendors to automate the Underwriting Review and Q/A process as much as possible
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to identify and share pain points, helping drive solutions that decrease cost and continually improve customer and agent satisfaction
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, actuarial teammates, and others to develop new reports, KPIs, and models to guide the UW management discipline
• Utilize various programs for day-to-day work (Google Suite, Guidewire, Zendesk, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual Spanish is a plus
• CPCU designation or other industry coursework preferred, but not required

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Generous parental and caregiver leave
• 401K match
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision plans
• Remote-first culture
• Annual $1000 tuition reimbursement stipend