Production Underwriter - Workers' Compensation

Kinetic

100d•$100,000 - $125,000•Remote

About The Position

Kinetic is on a mission to create a safer workplace and better life for the frontline workforce. Backed by Nationwide, we’re transforming workers’ comp with technology-driven solutions for injury prediction, prevention, and management—helping employers create safer, healthier workplaces. We also work directly with enterprise clients. Our platform is built for labor intensive industries including parcel delivery, manufacturing, and wholesale/warehousing operations. From wearable tech that reduces strain and sprain injuries by over 60% to a tech-driven program that speeds up return-to-work and generative AI for claims management, we're redefining what workers' comp can do. We’re a remote-first team headquartered in New York City, growing fast—10x in the past two years—and driven by accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration. If you're excited to build a career with impact, we’d love to meet you. Kinetic has been named to: Business Insurance's Best Place to Work in Insurance 2025 The Role This is an exciting role to join Kinetic’s underwriting team, and own a territory expansion. Your responsibilities will include growing appointed broker relationships by engaging with producers on a regular basis, both over the phone and in person. You will own building relationships that grow into submission volumes and premiums in your designated territory, and help explain Kinetic’s value proposition to our brokers in order to win accounts. Kinetic has incredibly unique products that we are excited to offer to our brokers as a way to set their accounts up for injury reduction, premium savings, and happier employees over time. You will be the beacon of this message in your interaction with our brokers. You should have a strong background in positioning a value-based product in Workers’ Compensation and the confidence to win business by leading with value, not just price. You should be excited to engage with brokers and get the deal done in a way that prices the risk for profitability, and brings a can-do attitude to the team.

Requirements

At least 3 years of underwriting experience in middle market Workers’ Comp insurance, with strong technical knowledge of Workers’ Compensation rating and classification
You have explicitly owned a territory as a field or production underwriter and have a track record of building premium in a profitable manner
Experience managing an entire book of business including renewals, endorsement requests, policy changes, ex-mod changes, audit inquiries, class code changes and Rating Bureaus CRITS
Tie loss control services into pricing and account servicing

Nice To Haves

Prior experience working remotely

Responsibilities

Grow broker relationships in your appointed agency base through both in-person and over-the-phone meetings
Price policies and evaluate risks of our middle market, monoline Workers’ Comp product
Be the main source of communication with your assigned broker partners on submissions, talking through decisions on pricing, identifying and sharing key service options available, declines, etc.
Traveling to brokers as needed while managing your submission flow
Contribute new and innovative ways to price risk in the class codes that Kinetic wants to grow in around the US
As needed, provide training and support to junior underwriters on our team
Own the growth of submissions and premium, while maintaining a profitable loss ratio, in your designated territory