Commercial Litigation Lawyer

Porch Group; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Dental plans

Vision plan

HSA & FSA

Life & disability

Wellbeing program

Paid holidays

Job summary

Porch Group is seeking a Corporate Counsel, Insurance to provide legal services to business unit leadership and guide the Insurance division through regulatory and compliance initiatives. You will lead the insurance legal and compliance team under the General Counsel, driving strategic initiatives, filings, and governance with senior stakeholders.

You will work with Finance, Product, Compliance, and Claims to advance approvals, launches, and examination outcomes, while staying current on

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in Texas, at a law firm, government, insurance regulator, and/or in-house role, including insurance regulatory experience and leading legal or compliance workstreams.
• Direct experience with insurance regulatory matters, including state DOI filings, rate and form approvals, market conduct, or InsurTech operations.
• Flexible, solution-oriented, collaborative mindset.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executive audiences and support senior leadership decision making on matters of risk.
• Experience building scalable legal and compliance frameworks, policies, and best practices.
• Up-to-date understanding of the key legal issues germane to an insurance organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Proficiency in managing multiple priorities, projects, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Independently provide legal counsel to senior leadership, including the carrier's executive team, to support business objectives and mitigate regulatory, compliance and litigation risk to Porch.
• Lead and develop the Insurance legal and compliance team, setting priorities, managing performance, and supporting hiring and growth.
• Own multiple, increasingly complex strategic legal and regulatory initiatives tied to company strategy.
• Prepare and review insurance related filings covering new products, quarterly and annual reports, governance reports and more.
• Lead the Insurance division secretarial function, including preparation of materials for the insurance carrier's Board of Directors and Committee meetings.
• Lead cross-functional programs with Finance, Product, Compliance, and Claims that drive business outcomes such as approvals secured, market launches, and examination results.
• Proactively monitor and analyze changes in laws, regulations and industry, and advise appropriate organizational leadership of such changes in a timely manner.
• Anticipate potential or future legal and operational issues that present a risk to the organization, and proactively engage with others to identify potential solutions.
• Build and maintain the Insurance legal and compliance framework, including policies, filing processes, and governance playbooks, and develop best practices that can serve as Porch standards.
• Produce clear and concise legal positions involving highly complex issues.
• Manage outside counsel to obtain legal advice.

Skills

Executive communication

Regulatory compliance

Insurance law

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Job description

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by 1) providing the best services for homebuyers, 2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance, 3) to protect the whole home.

As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service ("SaaS") space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.

Corporate Counsel, Insurance

Workplace Type: Remote

The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we’d love for you to be a part of it as our Corporate Counsel, Insurance.

As Corporate Counsel, Insurance, you will provide legal services and advice to business unit leadership, including the Insurance carrier’s executive team, and help navigate complex insurance regulatory landscapes. You will be a key partner and trusted advisor to the Insurance organization, reporting to the General Counsel and leading the Insurance legal and compliance team. This role works with our legal team on a wide variety of matters of significant importance to the organization, and brings the in-depth experience and proven ability to lead efforts that resolve complex issues. You will own multiple strategic legal and regulatory initiatives and support senior leadership decision making on risk and business trade-offs. Within the Insurance Division, you will help turn Porch’s strategic objectives into approvals secured, market launches and strong examination results.

What You Will Do As A Corporate Counsel, Insurance

• Independently provide legal counsel to senior leadership, including the carrier's executive team, to support business objectives and mitigate regulatory, compliance and litigation risk to Porch.
• Lead and develop the Insurance legal and compliance team, setting priorities, managing performance, and supporting hiring and growth.
• Own multiple, increasingly complex strategic legal and regulatory initiatives tied to company strategy.
• Prepare and review insurance related filings covering new products, quarterly and annual reports, governance reports and more.
• Lead the Insurance division secretarial function, including preparation of materials for the insurance carrier's Board of Directors and Committee meetings.
• Lead cross-functional programs with Finance, Product, Compliance, and Claims that drive business outcomes such as approvals secured, market launches, and examination results.
• Proactively monitor and analyze changes in laws, regulations and industry, and advise appropriate organizational leadership of such changes in a timely manner.
• Anticipate potential or future legal and operational issues that present a risk to the organization, and proactively engage with others to identify potential solutions.
• Build and maintain the Insurance legal and compliance framework, including policies, filing processes, and governance playbooks, and develop best practices that can serve as Porch standards.
• Produce clear and concise legal positions involving highly complex issues.
• Manage outside counsel to obtain legal advice.

What You Will Bring As A Corporate Counsel, Insurance

• 3-5 years of experience in Texas, at a law firm, government, insurance regulator, and/or in-house role, including insurance regulatory experience and experience leading legal or compliance workstreams.
• Direct experience with insurance regulatory matters, including state DOI filings, rate and form approvals, market conduct, or InsurTech operations.
• Flexible, solution-oriented, collaborative mindset.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executive audiences and support senior leadership decision making on matters of risk.
• Experience building scalable legal and compliance frameworks, policies, and best practices.
• Up-to-date understanding of the key legal issues germane to an insurance organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Proficiency in managing multiple priorities, projects, and stakeholders.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from 10/19/2026. Please know your actual pay at Porch will reflect a number of factors among which are your work experience and skillsets, job-related knowledge, alignment with market and our Porch employees, as well as your geographic location.

You will also be eligible to receive an annual bonus based on individual and company performance, subject to program guidelines and approvals.

Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, life, and financial wellbeing.

• Our traditional healthcare benefits include three (3) Medical plan options, two (2) Dental plan options, and a Vision plan from which to choose.
• We offer pre-tax savings options including a partially employer funded Health Savings Account and employee Flexible Savings Accounts including healthcare, dependent care, and transportation savings options.
• We provide company paid Basic Life and AD&D, Short and Long Term Disability benefits. Supportlinc is part of our employer paid wellbeing program and provides employees and their families access to on-demand guided meditation and mindfulness exercises, mental health coaching, clinical care and online access to confidential resources including will preparation.
• LifeBalance is a free resource to employees and their families for year-round discounts on things like gym memberships, travel, appliances, movies, pet insurance and more.
• Our wellness programs include flexible paid vacation, company-paid holidays of typically nine per year, paid sick time, paid parental leave, identity theft program, travel assistance, and fitness and other discounts programs.

Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

Porch Group is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is a web-based system that allows an employer to determine an employee's eligibility to work in the US using information reported on an employee's Form I-9. The E-Verify system confirms eligibility with both the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For more information, please go to the USCIS E-Verify website.