Life Underwriting Director jobs in Texas

Life Underwriting Director directs and oversees the life insurance underwriting program for individuals and/or groups. Responsible for ensuring integrity of underwriting activities and processes. Being a Life Underwriting Director provides coaching to underwriters and assists on more complex applications. Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Additionally, Life Underwriting Director typically requires Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) certification or Fellow Life Management Institute (FLMI) designation. Typically reports to top management. The Life Underwriting Director manages a departmental sub-function within a broader departmental function. Creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develops budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure. To be a Life Underwriting Director typically requires 5+ years of managerial experience. Deep knowledge of the managed sub-function and solid knowledge of the overall departmental function. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Senior Life Underwriter, Underwriting Strategies
  • Ethos Life
  • Austin, TX FULL_TIME
  • About the role

    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. 

    Duties and 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

    Qualifications and Skills:

    • 3-5 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

    #LI-Remote #LI-JA1

    The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $123,000 - $206,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. 

    Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits. 

    You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/

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Underwriting Assistant
  • Dearborn Life Insurance Co
  • Richardson, TX FULL_TIME
  • At HCSC, we consider our employees the cornerstone of our business and the foundation to our success. We enable employees to craft their career with curated development plans that set their learning p...
  • 3 Days Ago

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Chief Underwriting Officer, Life Sciences
  • Liberty Mutual
  • Plano, TX FULL_TIME
  • Pay PhilosophyThe typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this ...
  • 16 Days Ago

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Area Director - Argyle, TX
  • Young Life
  • Argyle, TX FULL_TIME
  • Description: The West Texas Region is seeking an Area Director for Young Life Argyle. The person will oversee ministry to high school students. Responsibilities: Demonstrate spiritual leadership on a ...
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Area Director - Marfa, TX
  • Young Life
  • Marfa, TX FULL_TIME
  • Description: The 120 students in Marfa await the next Young Life leader who will arrive in their lives with Jesus Christ, hope, and invitation to live a full life! For this, Big Bend Young Life is see...
  • 6 Days Ago

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Metro Director - Dallas, TX
  • Young Life
  • Dallas, TX FULL_TIME
  • Description: The Northeast Texas Region is prayerfully seeking a high-capacity, mission-driven leader to serve in a new role as a Metro Director in Dallas, TX. This role would oversee multiple ministr...
  • 15 Days Ago

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Director of Underwriting
  • Hy Cite
  • Madison, WI
  • JOB TITLE: Director of Underwriting REPORTS TO: Senior Vice Presidente of Financial Service LOCATION: Onsite in Madison,...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Underwriting Director - Cargo (Remote)
  • Intact Insurance
  • Canton, MA
  • Job Description We currently have an opportunity for an Underwriting Director to join our Specialty Ocean Marine team in...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Underwriting Director
  • IAT Insurance Group
  • Walnut Creek, CA
  • The Inland Marine Business Unit within IAT has an immediate opening for an Underwriting Director who can work from IAT's...
  • 3/26/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director, Risk Underwriting
  • Justworks
  • New York, NY
  • Who We Are At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, co...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Underwriting Director - Small Commercial
  • Berkley
  • Glen Allen, VA
  • Company Details: Berkley Mid-Atlantic Insurance Group (BMAG) is a property and casualty insurance provider serving the M...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Managing Director / Treaty Underwriting
  • The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
  • Miami, FL
  • Managing Director - UQ06FB We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Senior Underwriting Director
  • Old Republic General Insurance Group
  • ORE&S – SENIOR UNDERWRITING DIRECTOR - PROPERTY BROKERAGE About Old Republic: Old Republic International Corporation tra...
  • 3/24/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Corporate Underwriting Director (Remote)
  • Intact Insurance
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Job Description We currently have an opportunity for a Corporate Underwriting Director to join our Corporate North Ameri...
  • 3/24/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Income Estimation for Life Underwriting Director jobs
$168,750 to $215,509

Life Underwriting Director in Lorain, OH
Underwriting is used to get a picture of who you are based on your characteristics, especially how healthy you are (or not).
January 12, 2020
Life Underwriting Director in Hopkinsville, KY
Life insurance underwriters have long relied on motor vehicle records (MVRs) to provide valuable insight into the risks presented by proposed insureds.  Many predictive value studies have shown higher mortality rates associated with driving under the influence, reckless driving, suspensions, speeding, and distracted driving.  MVRs are a predictive data source that can indicate an individual’s all-cause mortality across a wide spectrum of ages and genders.
February 11, 2020
Life Underwriting Director in Bloomington, IN
Promote underwriting expertise to field distribution.
February 07, 2020