Senior Life Underwriter, Underwriting Strategies

Ethos Life

34d•$120,000 - $212,000•Remote

About The Position

Are you passionate about building best in class underwriting technology? The role seeks a visionary with ability to communicate across departments effectively and bring ideas to life. You’ll need to partner with end-users of Ethos systems and engineers to create a constant and virtuous cycle of improvements on our underwriting ecosystem.

Requirements

5-10+ 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.