Regulatory Affairs Director

Nearmap•Lehi, UT

17h

About The Position

Nearmap is hiring a Regulatory Affairs Director to build and lead its insurance regulatory affairs function. The role owns Nearmap’s regulatory strategy for aerial imagery and AI in insurance underwriting and rating, including engagement with regulators, legislators, industry groups, and insurance customers. The director will track regulatory developments, develop company positions and state playbooks, and advise carriers on best practices for using Nearmap AI products in admitted markets. The position reports into Insurance Product and works closely with data science, actuarial, Legal, and customer-facing teams. It is a builder role with immediate involvement in active filing engagements, while establishing the filing program and function for the longer term. The director serves as Nearmap’s regulatory contact through filing lifecycles, leads filing strategy and objection responses, and helps shape regulatory standards for imagery and AI in insurance. The director will also advise product and data science teams on filing implications before new attributes and scores launch, equip Sales, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success with accurate filing-related guidance, and develop filing schedules, metrics, and playbooks for the insurance vertical.

Requirements

8 to 12 years of experience in property and casualty rate filings, regulatory affairs, or state product management; personal lines property experience is especially relevant.
Hands-on experience managing complete filing lifecycles and interacting directly with state insurance regulators.
Experience preparing regulator-ready materials, including filing narratives, methodology summaries, actuarial exhibits, statistical plans, forms, and rate pages.
Bachelor’s degree in insurance, actuarial science, public policy, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Strong knowledge of SERFF and multi-state prior-approval processes, including how state requirements and practices differ.
Ability to translate model documentation and validation output into language regulators will accept.
Ability to manage multiple parallel deadlines, including deadlines outside the candidate’s control.
Ability to work effectively with carrier actuarial and regulatory teams.
Clear writing and the ability to explain technical methods to reviewers without losing substantive detail.
Comfort being the first person in a function and creating its playbook while work is underway.
Calmness under externally set deadlines, commercial awareness, and strong written and verbal communication, including communication with regulators.

Nice To Haves

California experience.
Actuarial credentials such as ASA or ACAS, or relevant regulatory training or certification.
Prior experience inside a department of insurance.
Experience with AI, predictive model, or catastrophe model filings, and familiarity with model governance frameworks.
Experience establishing or maintaining advisory or rating organization status.

Responsibilities

Serve as Nearmap’s named regulatory contact throughout the filing lifecycle, from pre-filing consultation through objection response and post-approval maintenance.
Own Nearmap’s regulatory strategy, including decisions about where and how to register and file.
Partner with insurance carriers to design regulatory approaches that meet their needs.
Lead objection-response strategy using analytical input from actuarial and data science teams.
Own the advisory organization relationship and subscriber mechanics between Nearmap and carrier customers, distinguishing regulatory requirements from commercial ones.
Develop and maintain a strategy for advisory organization registration beyond Nearmap’s existing Arizona registration.
Partner with Legal on privilege, contractual, and compliance issues arising from filings and regulator engagement.
Own the end-to-end rate filing approach, including scoping, materials, submission coordination, tracking, objection response, and close.
Coordinate development and maintenance of a rate-filing materials library, including model memos, validation summaries, and methodology documentation for Nearmap attributes and scores used in rating.
Maintain state-by-state knowledge of filing requirements, permissible confidentiality treatment, and filer eligibility.
Manage version control and re-filing prompted by model updates, new attributes, validation findings, or regulator feedback.
Monitor filings across states and maintain an up-to-date database of rating plans that use aerially derived data.
Track NAIC, NAMIC, and NCOIL activity on insurance AI and imagery, including the NAIC AI Systems Evaluation Tool, and represent Nearmap’s perspective in those venues.
Advise product and data science teams on filing implications before new attributes and scores launch, supporting regulatory risk mitigation and filing-ready releases.
Equip Sales, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success with accurate guidance on how Nearmap’s filing history applies to particular states.
Build filing schedules, metrics, and playbooks for the insurance vertical.