Director, Actuary (Group Advanced Analytics)

Prudential Annuities Distributors (PAD); Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan with company match

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Employee stock purchase plan

Discretionary annual incentive

Job summary

Prudential is seeking a Director, Actuary – Group Advanced Analytics to lead actuarial work on an AI-enabled disability claims assistant. You will design, validate, calibrate, monitor, and interpret models across LTD and STD lifecycles, ensuring actuarial soundness and business relevance.

The role blends hybrid/virtual work with on-site presence as needed, requiring strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• 7+ years of actuarial experience with disability claims analytics or related areas.
• Associate or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries designation.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience translating model insights into business action.

Responsibilities

• Provide actuarial leadership for claims risk management model design, calibration, and validation across LTD and STD.
• Translate claims experience into actuarial measures and business metrics for model performance.
• Partner with data science, claims, technology, and finance teams to ensure model explainability and usefulness.
• Support model governance, validation standards, monitoring, and documentation.

Skills

Actuarial leadership

Disability claims analytics

Model governance

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science

Tools

Excel

SQL

R

Python

Power BI

Job description

Job Classification: Actuarial - Actuarial

At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions! The Director, Actuary – Group Advanced Analytics role is a senior individual contributor position providing dedicated actuarial leadership for Prudential’s internally owned AI-enabled disability claims assistant. This role will help design, validate, calibrate, monitor, and interpret claims intelligence models across the LTD and STD claim lifecycle, ensuring model outputs are actuarially sound, operationally explainable, and aligned with claims management, loss ratio, reserving, and broader business objectives. The position requires strong actuarial judgment, disability claims expertise, advanced analytical capability, model governance discipline, and the ability to translate complex claim-level insights into practical business action. The current employee work arrangement for this position is hybrid or virtual and may require your on-site presence on a reoccurring basis as determined by your business, dependent on the candidate's location. Your manager will provide additional details relative to the specific number of days you are expected to be on-site.

What you can expect:

Provide actuarial leadership for claims risk management model design, including claim outcome definition, target variable selection, segmentation, calibration, and validation across LTD and STD claim use cases.

Translate disability claims experience into actuarial measures and business metrics that can be used to evaluate model performance, claim outcomes, financial impact, and intervention effectiveness.

Partner with data science, claims, technology, finance, and vendor resources to ensure model insights are explainable, operationally relevant, and embedded into claims management workflows.

Support model governance, including validation standards, monitoring routines, performance thresholds, documentation, and ongoing assessment of model stability, bias, drift, and business usefulness.

Develop reporting and interpretation frameworks that connect model outputs to loss ratio trends, reserve implications, claim duration, return-to-work outcomes, transition risk, and other disability claim performance indicators.

Serve as a senior actuarial subject matter expert for model pilots and deployment, helping claims leaders understand model recommendations, expected value, limitations, and appropriate use in decision processes.

What you’ll need:

Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.

7+ years of actuarial experience, preferably with meaningful exposure to group disability, claims analytics, pricing, valuation, reserving, or financial performance management.

Associate or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries designation.

Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.

Experience analyzing LTD and/or STD disability claim experience and translating claim-level patterns into actionable business, financial, and operational insight.

Understanding of predictive modeling concepts, model validation, calibration, performance monitoring, and practical considerations for applying analytics in claim management workflows.

Ability to work across actuarial, claims, data science, technology, finance, and vendor teams to move from analysis to practical implementation.

Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex actuarial and model concepts, assumptions, limitations, and business implications to technical and non-technical audiences.

It’d be a plus if you had:

Experience with AI/ML, predictive analytics, statistical modeling, claims risk scoring, intervention targeting, or model governance in an insurance or financial services environment.

Proficiency in tools such as Excel, SQL, R, Python, Power BI, or other analytical tools used for claim-level data analysis, model performance reporting, and business insight development.

Experience presenting model performance, financial impact, governance findings, and recommendations to claims, actuarial, finance, technology, or senior business leaders.

Prudential welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement.

At Prudential, you can:

Take charge of your career. We equip and empower our employees to expand their skills and experience by using powerful learning, gigs, and job opportunities. We offer a suite of services such as on demand resources and networking to propel your career forward. We’re a global organization, full of outstandingly dedicated people who aren’t afraid to think differently, challenge the status quo and take sensible risks along the way. You will enjoy pushing boundaries as we build innovative technology that helps clients, customers and employees live their best lives. You will have access to leadership and learning opportunities and the resources needed to take your career in any direction. We will help you do your best work, offering flexibility, while delivering on our Purpose.

What we offer you:

Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations.

The salary range for this role is from $158,800.00 to $238,200.00.

Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers.

Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace

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Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace

Prudential Financial, Inc. serves its customers in more than 40 countries and territories, and we seek talented, creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds, worldviews, and life circumstances to work with us. We are focused on creating a fully inclusive culture, where all employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it. At Prudential, employees have a unique opportunity to build their career path by owning their development, their career, and their future. We encourage employees to hone their skills and explore continued opportunities within Prudential.

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