Underwriter

• Support Underwriters through account management and policy processing activities
• Process new business, renewals, endorsements, cancellations, and reinstatements in accordance with company guidelines
• Maintain organized electronic files and policy documentation
• Review and enter policy information into underwriting systems to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Issue policies, endorsements, and related documents in accordance with company procedures
• Provide exceptional customer service to clients
• Serve as the first point of contact for customer inquiries during the account life cycle
• Handle correspondence for additional account information
• Assist producers via email and phone calls
• Order loss runs requested by agents and insureds and send via fax, email, or mail
• Prepare and mail claims kits and marketing materials requested by agents and insureds

Underwriting Assistant

• Lead, train, and develop a motivated team of Underwriting Assistants
• Ensure accurate and timely policy processing and underwriting support activities
• Monitor the quality and quantity of work for the unit
• Provide technical coaching regarding policy forms and underwriting requirements
• Develop and lead a cohesive team that promotes exceptional customer service
• Serve as the primary escalation point for agents, brokers, and internal partners regarding underwriting support

Underwriting Assistant Supervisor – Commercial Lines

• Leads and directs the Middle Market Technology Property & Casualty underwriting group
• Accountable for business results through overall management, profitability, and business development
• Onboards, trains, coaches, leads and develops underwriters
• Participates in the development and implementation of underwriting policy, marketing and business strategy
• Develops and maintains agency and/or broker relationships to ensure positive and profitable outcomes

Underwriting Director – Technology P&C

• Underwriting difficult loan requests and renewals for various lending products
• Reviewing loans for SBA eligibility and preparing recommendations to Credit Administration
• Mentoring junior analysts in financial analysis and loan structure
• Performing SBA eligibility reviews and financial statement analyses
• Providing credit information and references as requested
• Conducting pre-qualification assessments of financial conditions

Assistant Vice President, Commercial Underwriting – SBA

• Own risk selection, pricing, and appetite across NGBs, professional teams, and events.
• Shape policy design and wording, not just the rate.
• Codify your judgment into rating models, appetite rules, and referral logic.
• Review referrals and complex risks, and feed every decision back into the system.
• Build and lead the sports underwriting team from the ground up as the book scales.

Sports & Entertainment Underwriting Manager

• Partner with key stakeholders to manage the formulation of strategic credit policy for AHL, maintaining objective and robust credit boundaries.
• Translate credit strategy into clear, actionable, and consistently applied underwriting guidelines.
• Maintain a single source of truth for underwriting guidelines, including version control, change governance, and clear communication of updates.
• Serve as the bridge between credit strategy/modeling and underwriting operations, ensuring strategy is operationally executable and that operational feedback informs strategy.
• Partner with underwriting leadership to optimize processes, reduce cycle time, and improve decision consistency without weakening credit boundaries.
• Support the AHL Third-Party Origination (TPO) channel on credit policy, ensuring broker and correspondent partners operate within Achieve's credit boundaries.
• Develop TPO-specific overlays, guidance, and communications, and serve as the credit-policy point of contact for the channel.
• Own real-time monitoring of TPO credit performance - early-payment default, exception and overlay trends, guideline adherence, and fraud signals - and trigger timely, well-reasoned policy responses.
• Partner with TPO/wholesale leadership and channel counterparties to remediate performance issues and tighten or adjust policy where needed.

Director, Credit Policy – Underwriting Strategy

• Define and execute underwriting strategy aligned with company risk appetite and growth goals
• Establish clear underwriting frameworks, guidelines, and authority structures
• Lead and develop the underwriting team to ensure consistent, high-quality decision-making
• Manage, mentor, and scale a team of underwriters
• Set performance expectations, KPIs, and accountability standards
• Foster a culture of discipline, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Own portfolio performance, including loss ratio, exposure, and concentration risk
• Monitor trends and adjust underwriting strategy based on performance and market conditions
• Actively manage catastrophe exposure, including wildfire and other perils
• Ensure alignment between underwriting decisions and pricing models
• Partner with actuarial and data teams to refine segmentation and risk selection
• Maintain balance between growth targets and profitability
• Drive adoption of data-driven underwriting tools, models, and risk scores
• Collaborate with data science teams to improve model performance and usability
• Ensure underwriting decisions are informed by robust analytics and insights
• Partner with reinsurance to align underwriting strategy with risk transfer programs
• Ensure portfolio construction reflects reinsurance structures and constraints
• Support optimization of retention and exposure
• Ensure underwriting practices meet regulatory requirements and internal controls
• Maintain clear documentation, auditability, and consistency
• Support regulatory interactions and internal reviews
• Collaborate with claims, finance, and revenue teams to align on performance and strategy
• Provide insights into loss drivers and emerging risks
• Serve as a key advisor to executive leadership on portfolio risk and growth

Head of Underwriting

• Supervises the day-to-day management of qualified underwriting support staff
• Determines day-to-day priorities and assigns workload to staff
• Monitors work progress and reassigns work and personnel as required
• Ensures service levels are achieved by continuous monitoring of available staff and transaction volumes
• Responsible for ensuring goals for productivity, quality of transactions and customer inquiries are met
• Supervises day to day underwriting support staff functions
• Resolves processing and billing questions on underwriting transactions within multiple systems
• Develops and implements standardized processing procedures
• Creates and implements quality control procedures and monitors adherence to Underwriting guidelines through audits and reports
• Reviews work on processing system for accuracy and completeness
• Identifies trends and develops plans for eliminating causes of recurring errors
• Works with Underwriters to develop, implement, and assess effectiveness of workflow and associated procedures

Underwriting Support Supervisor – Medical Technology

• Assists underwriter in developing and directly servicing a book of business
• Evaluates risks and makes recommendations for acceptance, rejection, modification, or referral
• Completes 85-90% of the front-end information gathering and analytics required
• Responsible for adjusting policy pricing and properly documenting eligible renewals
• Develops superior working relationships with producers and acts as first point of contact
• Takes initiative for continual learning and understanding insurance coverages

Underwriting Associate – Technology

• Lead the analysis, underwriting and structuring of new investments;
• Size and price investments with structural features;
• Participate in negotiations of term sheets and loan documents;
• Coordinate the due diligence process including managing third-party service providers such as appraisers, engineers, consultants, etc., and conduct critical review and analysis of all third-party reports;
• Identify potential risks and challenges associated with a transaction and provide ideas for solutions and risk mitigants;
• Gather, analyze and interpret real estate market data/trends and financial information;
• Prepare and present final due diligence findings to Investment Committee;
• Conduct comprehensive site inspections, including sale and rent comparable properties;
• Execute and oversee the closing process of transactions;
• Underwrite all asset classes using Excel-based underwriting models, including complex cash flow, DCF, IRR and fund/partnership waterfall modeling;
• Build Excel models from scratch for ad-hoc analysis;
• Maintain and analyze budgets, prepare periodic reports that compare budget to actual;
• Lead transition meetings between deal teams and asset management teams to effectively onboard each new asset or financing; and
• Maintain strong relationships with external auditors and internal partners.

Associate, Underwriting

• Reviews applications and financial information to assess risk acceptability
• Applies pricing methodology and predictive modeling tools to evaluate risk
• Maintains strong underwriting discipline, including CAT management
• Manages an assigned portfolio to achieve goals around premium and profitability
• Builds and maintains disciplined sales practices using CNA tools

Underwriting Consultant – Technology P&C

• reviews applications and financial information to assess risk acceptability in alignment with CNA guidelines
• analyzes and communicates underwriting decisions, including rate actions, requirements, and declinations
• builds and maintains disciplined sales practices using CNA tools, including Salesforce
• manages an assigned portfolio to achieve goals around premium, profitability, rate, retention, and product mix

Underwriting Consultant, Technology P&C

• Manage submission intake and track new business using Excel and Excel Online
• Review and clear new business submissions
• Enter submission data into the Policy Administration System to process rating worksheets
• Communicate with agents to obtain required or missing information
• Complete initial data entry on the Risk Analysis Worksheet (RAW)
• Assign submissions to appropriate underwriters with attention to detail
• Email policies and welcome kits to agents and policyholders
• Process loss run and experience modification worksheet requests
• Assist with preparation of renewal quotes
• Bind and issue policies in the Policy Administration System
• Process endorsements, including cancellations and reinstatements
• Deliver proposals and quotes within established timeframes
• Respond to internal compliance inquiries and external requests from agents, brokers, and policyholders
• Participate in training, workshops, and conventions to stay current on workers’ compensation rules, regulations, and underwriting practices
• Use resources such as IRMI and the NCCI website to enhance underwriting knowledge
• Perform additional tasks and special projects as assigned

• Complete wing-to-wing underwriting decisions, starting with review of upfront underwriting data and tools
• Staff coaching and development of Underwriting Consultants and Senior Consultants
• Handle additional underwriting requirements by determining value, ordering, and reviewing to perform risk selection
• Finalizing cases and performing second-sign duties as needed
• Demonstrate dependability, organization, and sound judgment by adhering to schedules and meeting all productivity, quality, and performance standards.

Managing Director, Underwriting

• Lead the design and delivery of large-scale, production-ready underwriting platforms , including AI and LLM-powered capabilities
• Architect highly available, secure, and scalable services that support enterprise-level workloads
• Drive end-to-end ownership of systems—from concept and architecture through production and long-term evolution
• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams , influencing architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards
• Mentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers, setting a high bar for engineering excellence
• Partner closely with Product, Operations, and Engineering Leadership to deliver measurable business outcomes
• Modernize legacy systems through cloud migration, automation, and digital transformation initiatives
• Champion best practices in observability, performance, reliability, and security
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Senior Staff Software Engineer – AI & Underwriting Platforms

• Perform interior/exterior physical inspections of homes
• Complete inspections within a territory throughout Southern California
• Upload photos into Scene Genesis or equivalent application for viewing by Underwriting
• May provide some evaluation of insurance risk
• Maintain daily and weekly schedule

Field Underwriting Inspector

• Assists underwriter in developing and directly servicing a book of business
• Evaluates risks and makes recommendations for acceptance, rejection, modification, or referral
• Completes 85-90% of the front-end information gathering and analytics for new business policies
• Ensures underwriting file is documented and returns for final review by underwriter
• Develops superior working relationships with producers
• Researches and resolves complex errors regarding processes and procedures
• Occasionally travels to key producers/accounts with underwriter(s)
• Assists underwriters in managing their portfolios through risk evaluation
• Takes initiative for learning and understanding insurance coverages
• Assists in development of new processes, procedures and/or systems
• Participates on committees and projects as required
• Trains and acts as a resource and mentor for other Underwriting Associates and Assistants

Underwriting Associate – Specialty Property

• Partner with the SVP to guide the underwriting approach for the Management Liability business, including risk appetite and decision authority.
• Review and provide input on complex or higher-exposure accounts, and step in on key deals as needed.
• Lead a team of five underwriters, supporting their day-to-day work, performance, and development.
• Maintain your own book of business, including underwriting decisions, broker engagement, and portfolio performance.
• Build and maintain relationships with wholesale brokers within the West region.
• Partner with Product, Actuarial, and Claims to adjust pricing, coverage, and underwriting approach as needed.
• Monitor portfolio trends and adjust underwriting approach where appropriate.
• Look for ways to improve workflows and make underwriting processes more efficient.
• Ensure underwriting practices align with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and ongoing development of underwriting staff.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Vice President, Management Liability Underwriting

• Assist with underwriting insurance risks in accordance with the business plan and delegated authority to meet business objectives
• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations and guidelines
• Provide technical underwriting and administrative support to the underwriting staff
• Gather information, prepare file documentation, and collaborate with internal partners
• Assist underwriters with agent interactions
• Analyze underwriting information to triage, prepare and respond to quotes, renewals and policy endorsements or inquiries
• Apply underwriting guidelines and ensure compliance with all company filings, rules, and regulations
• Underwrite and process all endorsement requests
• Independently execute pricing strategy and document pricing decisions
• Identify and execute opportunities to upsell and cross sell UFG coverages and products
• Screen new business submissions for assigned underwriter(s)
• Provide clear direction to Support Staff for policy changes, renewals and quote entry
• Work as a liaison between partner departments to resolve issues at a policy level
• Seek agency engagement to obtain missing information or clarify policy needs
• Foster a collaborative working relationship with assigned underwriters to achieve KPI metrics
• Identify risks that require reinsurance and risk control services
• Actively assist with the review and analysis of the portfolio.

Underwriting Associate

• Lead and manage a large, multi‑functional Business Banking Lending Center (BPLC) encompassing service representatives, underwriters, portfolio managers, and credit approvers.
• Own the end‑to‑end lending operating model, ensuring underwriting and servicing processes are well‑designed, documented, tested, and consistently executed.
• Maintain a strong culture of risk management and control aligned with enterprise frameworks and regulatory expectations.
• Address complex customer concerns, complaints, and escalations to ensure fair, timely, and favorable resolution.
• Partner with senior executives and business leaders to align operational capabilities with growth, risk, and financial objectives.
• Develop and oversee performance, risk, and compliance reporting across operations, training, and automation.

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Underwriting Assistant

Underwriting Assistant Supervisor – Commercial Lines

Underwriting Director – Technology P&C

Assistant Vice President, Commercial Underwriting – SBA

Sports & Entertainment Underwriting Manager

Director, Credit Policy – Underwriting Strategy

Head of Underwriting

Underwriting Support Supervisor – Medical Technology

Underwriting Associate – Technology

Associate, Underwriting

Underwriting Consultant – Technology P&C

Underwriting Consultant, Technology P&C

Underwriting Assistant

Managing Director, Underwriting

Senior Staff Software Engineer – AI & Underwriting Platforms

Field Underwriting Inspector

Underwriting Associate – Specialty Property

Vice President, Management Liability Underwriting

Underwriting Associate

Managing Director, U.S. Business Banking Loan Underwriting, Operations, Transformation