Life & Annuity Specialist - Advisor

Mercor; Toronto; Presencial; CAD 85.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mercor partners with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality life and annuity data. We’re hiring Life & Annuity Specialists to design realistic advisory, underwriting and policy-service scenarios, and assess model outputs against established industry standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about mortality risk and policy mechanics.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business

Formación

• Have 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business, policy administration, product, or suitability review.
• Have worked with at least one product family, such as term, whole life, universal or indexed universal life, variable life, or fixed, indexed and variable annuities.
• Understand how policy mechanics (cost of insurance, crediting, caps and participation rates, surrender charges, riders and guarantees) drive long-term outcomes.
• Can explain tax treatment and suitability considerations clearly, and recognize when licensed or legal review is required.
• Demonstrate excellent written communication, quantitative care and high attention to detail.
• Can distinguish product and suitability judgment from investment advice and formal tax or legal advice.
• CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CFP, or comparable designation.
• Active or previously held life and health producer license, or securities registration.
• Medical or financial life underwriting experience, including APS review, lab interpretation or reinsurance referral.
• Experience with buy-sell, key-person, estate-planning, premium-finance or executive-benefit cases.
• Experience with suitability, Reg BI, or state replacement and disclosure review.

Responsabilidades

• Design realistic scenarios involving needs analysis, product selection, illustrations, medical and financial underwriting, table ratings, replacements and 1035 exchanges, policy loans, surrenders, lapse and reinstatement
• Create work products such as coverage recommendations, illustration comparisons, underwriting assessments, suitability rationales, replacement analyses and policy-service determinations
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced life and annuity practitioner quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for product accuracy, suitability, mathematical correctness and disclosure adequacy
• Identify unsupported illustration assumptions, unsuitable recommendations, confusion between product types or tax treatments, and failures to apply replacement or disclosure requirements
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

Descripción del empleo

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We're hiring Life & Annuity Specialists to design realistic advisory, underwriting and policy-service scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established industry standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about mortality risk, long-horizon guarantees and suitability.

We welcome life and annuity producers, advisors, life underwriters, new-business and policy-service professionals, product specialists, and suitability or replacement reviewers from carriers, brokerage general agencies, IMOs, and independent practices.

What You'll Do

• Design realistic scenarios involving needs analysis, product selection, illustrations, medical and financial underwriting, table ratings, replacements and 1035 exchanges, policy loans, surrenders, lapse and reinstatement
• Create work products such as coverage recommendations, illustration comparisons, underwriting assessments, suitability rationales, replacement analyses and policy-service determinations
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced life and annuity practitioner quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for product accuracy, suitability, mathematical correctness and disclosure adequacy
• Identify unsupported illustration assumptions, unsuitable recommendations, confusion between product types or tax treatments, and failures to apply replacement or disclosure requirements
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

You're a Good Fit If You

• Have 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business, policy administration, product, or suitability review
• Have worked with at least one product family, such as term, whole life, universal or indexed universal life, variable life, or fixed, indexed and variable annuities
• Understand how policy mechanics (cost of insurance, crediting, caps and participation rates, surrender charges, riders and guarantees) drive long-term outcomes
• Can explain tax treatment and suitability considerations clearly, and recognize when licensed or legal review is required
• Demonstrate excellent written communication, quantitative care and high attention to detail
• Can distinguish product and suitability judgment from investment advice and formal tax or legal advice

Bonus Qualifications

• CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CFP, or comparable designation
• Active or previously held life and health producer license, or securities registration
• Medical or financial life underwriting experience, including APS review, lab interpretation or reinsurance referral
• Experience with buy-sell, key-person, estate-planning, premium-finance or executive-benefit cases
• Experience with suitability, Reg BI, or state replacement and disclosure review

Role Highlights

• Minimum 20 hours per week (ideally 40+)
• Role starts immediately, applications reviewed on a rolling basis