Senior Forward Deployed Underwriter

Neural Earth

8d • $170,000 - $198,000

About The Position

We are NEURAL EARTH. We bring clarity to physical risk, enabling leaders to engage with confidence and enact resilient, business-critical decisions. Today's environmental, economic, and infrastructure challenges are deeply interconnected, yet the data required to understand these relationships is scattered across siloed and aging systems. Neural Earth enables operational execution, delivering a single decision intelligence platform that unifies planetary, governmental, and asset-level data, always on and always learning. This is technical work that requires patience. It requires teams willing to operate at the intersection of AI research, geospatial science, distributed systems, and enterprise deployment. It is also incredibly rewarding. Join us at Neural Earth — the next frontier is here.

Neural Earth's Revenue team is the commercial engine of the business, translating our decision intelligence platform into market opportunity, pipeline, and customer value. The team spans sales, customer success, and go-to-market strategy, in close partnership with Product and Engineering. We are building a revenue motion in a technically complex enterprise space largely from scratch, and this role is among the first two or three hires who will define how that motion actually works. You come before the Head of Sales, not after: companies that invert that order get repositioned as vendors by their own go-to-market, and Neural Earth is not doing that. The work you do here shapes how Neural Earth shows up in the market and how buyers understand what they are buying.

Requirements

• 6 to 9 years inside a carrier, reinsurer, or MGA: pricing actuary, underwriting manager, cat modeling lead, or portfolio manager. Carrier-side first, longer than any vendor tenure.
• Personal ownership of a loss ratio, a rate filing, or a treaty renewal. Able to name the book, the state, the year, and the number.
• Practitioner fluency in Touchstone, RMS, or AIR, as a user who distrusted an output, not someone who sold or integrated one.
• A real network at the decision layer: fifteen or more Chief Actuaries, Chief Underwriting Officers, and Heads of Cat Modeling who would take a call today.
• Ability to accommodate travel as needed (~40%).

Nice To Haves

• You have sat in the seat we are selling into.
• You have owned a loss ratio, defended a rate filing, and watched a vendor model tell you something about your own book that you knew was wrong.
• You bring 6 to 9 years inside a carrier, reinsurer, or MGA: pricing actuary, underwriting manager, cat modeling lead, or portfolio manager, carrier-side first, and longer than any vendor tenure.
• You have personal ownership of a loss ratio, a rate filing, or a treaty renewal, and can name the book, the state, the year, and the number.
• You have practitioner fluency in Touchstone, RMS, or AIR, as a user who distrusted an output, not as someone who sold or integrated one.
• You have a real network at the decision layer: fifteen or more Chief Actuaries, Chief Underwriting Officers, and Heads of Cat Modeling who would take your call today. Not brokers. Not IT.
• You write. You have argued a position and shown the math in a memo, a filing narrative, or a whitepaper, anything longer than a slide.
• You will be wrong in public. In the first ten minutes of a meeting, you will tell a Chief Actuary where our model diverges from theirs and why we might be the ones who are off.
• You see this as a practitioner seat with commercial authority, not a sales seat with a technical wrapper. You own the account, the technical argument, and the number.
• You are not an Account Executive who positions our platform as a data feed with a feature list to land a pilot, and you are not a cat modeling scientist without commercial instinct: you convert credibility into decisions, not just a well-respected pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Embed in a carrier or reinsurer's actual book, Florida wind, California wildfire, Texas hail. Run Prometheus against their in-force exposure and find where the incumbent model is wrong, proving it at parcel resolution.
• Author the memo that circulates when you are not in the room. A one-page memo to a Chief Actuary that diagnoses a 12-point loss ratio divergence, concedes what it should concede, and recommends a decision.
• Create the category, account by account. You are not competing for an existing budget line, you are arguing the line should exist, and that argument only lands from someone the buyer recognizes as a peer.
• Turn the field back into the product. What you learn inside the book becomes the roadmap, with direct, unfiltered access to engineering and the CEO, and the expectation that you use it.
• Diagnose divergence and say which is which out loud. You will be right sometimes and wrong sometimes, and that honesty is not a soft skill here, it is the entire sales motion.

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation regardless of work location
• Company performance-based cash bonuses
• Majority employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Group Life Insurance at 2x your base salary, paid by the company
• FSA and HSA options to maximize your healthcare dollars

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed