Actuary / Senior Actuary (Remote)

Actuary / Senior Actuary, Pricing

DRIVE PROFITABLE GROWTH FOR THE BUSINESS

About the company

The company is the world’s first InsurSec provider designed from the ground up to help businesses tackle cyber risk head on. By combining industry-leading insurance with world-class cybersecurity technology, the company offers end-to-end prevention and protection for the digital age. With 98% of cyber insurance claims in the past five years coming from small and mid-size businesses with revenue under $2B, providing an integrated solution to help manage risk is more critical than ever.

The company helps its 35,000+ customers close their security technology and skills gap — all through their cyber insurance policy — making them less likely to be hit with a ransomware attack. As a full-stack insurance company, the company offers multiple lines of specialty insurance, including Cyber, Tech E&O, and Miscellaneous Professional Liability (MPL) policies.

Why you should join our  Actuarial Pricing team

As an Senior Actuary on the Pricing team, you will be working under the risk function with talented team members in modeling, risk analytics, decision engine, insurance and tech product. The Pricing team has helped the company launch new products, secure reinsurance capacity, quantify and manage risk related KPIs and adjust pricing to drive profitable growth.

You’ll join a growing team of actuaries and actuarial analysts of diverse backgrounds and report to our Director, Pricing (Eric Murphy). You’ll be surrounded by a team that loves what they do, leverages technology to improve efficiency & minimize duplicative work, and recognizes the enormous responsibility that they have – to support key business decisions with data backed insights and a deep understanding of insurance risk.

Role overview

Your work will directly contribute to the company’s risk assessment framework that helps with data-driven decisions involving millions of dollars of exposure. This is a multidisciplinary role that includes developing deep professional lines knowledge, business acumen, research, and analytical skills. This is also a hands-on operational role where you’ll see in house submission, quotes and binds and understand how each risk decision will impact on the business.

You will lead the development of pricing models for new professional & general liability products and work cross-functionally with Insurance & Tech Product, Underwriting, Claims, and Decision Engine teams on the implementation of those products. You will be responsible for driving the company’s professional lines product related initiatives and lead a wide variety of pricing projects, from inception to implementation, to understand the impacts and implications of pricing and underwriting initiatives on the business. As a Senior Actuary you will also be expected to manage up and cross functionally across various teams.

How you’ll make an impact

By 3 months…

• You’ll understand the company’s internal data structure and develop key relationships across the business

• You’ll have utilized the existing Cyber and Tech E&O rate plans, rater, forecasting tools and related data sources to analyze product performance and recommended actions to leadership based on your findings

• You’ll have a strong understanding of internal KPIs, developed benchmarks, and reviewed existing pricing segmentation and the overall rate adequacy of all products

• You’ll identify areas of improvement in our systems and processes and suggested solutions

By 6 months...

• You’ll have proposed and implemented changes to the Cyber and Tech E&O rate plan, detailed rating rules and associated business logic for the new product and achieved alignment from key stakeholders

• You’ll have worked with the Insurance Product head and other Tech Product, Underwriting, Claims, and Decision Engine teams to develop new product(s), support new product implementation and developed new tools to measure performance

• You’ll have collaborated with our Cyber Research team to identify and analyze potential new features to be introduced to the rate plan, shared your research with key stakeholders and implemented it into our production risk model

• You’ll help coach individuals and managers to understand actuarial analytics, Cyber pricing and risk, and how it differs from traditional pricing and other lines of business

What you’ve accomplished already

• You have experience analyzing profitability of developing personal and/or commercial lines products

• You’ve evaluated the profitability of a portfolio of insureds using actuarial techniques and presented the results to senior leaders from multiple disciplines

• You’ve lead pricing projects from end to end, collaborating and communicating cross functionally to ensure success

• You’ve achieved your ACAS or FCAS

• You’ve achieved proficiency with Excel and SQL, and have experience with Python and/or R

• You’ve created and presented actuarial insights and recommendations to senior leadership, translating complex insurance analysis into clear, actionable strategies.

Our estimated base pay range for this role is $150,000-$185,000 per year. Base salary is determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to market data, location, internal equitability, domain knowledge, experiences and skills. In general, if the position sparks your interest we encourage you to apply - our team prioritizes talent.