Deputy CUO, Underwriting Excellence Leader

Kalepa; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 275,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare and Retirement Benefits

401(k) with generous employer match

Wellness incentive program

Life and accidental death and dismount

Flexible spending programs

Paid time off program

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement program

Job summary

MSIG USA in New York, NY, is seeking a Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer – Underwriting Excellence in a hybrid, full-time capacity. You will lead enterprise underwriting standards and governance, translating risk appetite into practical guidelines and strengthening underwriting education across the organization.

The role requires 15+ years in Commercial P&C underwriting, with a proven ability to drive governance, performance, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive specialty or Commercial P&C underwriting experience.
• Experience establishing enterprise underwriting standards, authority frameworks, technical governance, quality assurance, and related functions.
• Strong executive communication, influence, decision-making, and change-leadership skills.
• Experience translating enterprise risk appetite into practical underwriting guidelines, authorities, controls, referral processes, and escalation protocols.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise underwriting standards, policies, guidelines and technical governance.
• Own underwriting authority, referral, exception and escalation frameworks, in partnership with the CUO and business underwriting leaders.
• Lead implementation of enterprise risk appetite into practical underwriting standards and controls.
• Provide executive leadership to Underwriting Quality & Assurance, including thematic reviews, quality trends, root-cause analysis, remediation and continuous improvement.
• Create a closed-loop process in which quality findings inform underwriting standards, authorities, training, product governance and business action.
• Lead underwriting education, technical capability development... and sharing of best practices across the underwriting community.
• Partner with product leaders on new-product and material-product-change governance from an underwriting standards, authority and controls perspective.
• Establish minimum delegated underwriting standards and control requirements, including authority expectations and underwriting-quality requirements.
• Chair or support enterprise underwriting governance forums and ensure remediation tracking.
• Partner with Actuarial, Reinsurance, Risk Engineering, Legal/Compliance, and senior leadership to convert enterprise insights into underwriting action.

Skills

Executive leadership

Underwriting governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, risk management, insurance, or a related field

Job description

MSIG USA in New York, NY, is seeking a Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer – Underwriting Excellence in a hybrid, full-time capacity. You will lead enterprise underwriting standards and governance, translating risk appetite into practical guidelines and strengthening underwriting education across the organization.

The role requires 15+ years in Commercial P&C underwriting, with a proven ability to drive governance, performance, and cross-functional collaboration.