Director, Actuary – Group Analytics (Disability AI)

pru; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential is seeking a Director, Actuary - Group Advanced Analytics to provide actuarial leadership for AI-enabled disability claims intelligence across the LTD and STD lifecycles. You will ensure model outputs are actuarially sound, explainable, and aligned with claims management, loss ratios, and reserves.

The role requires 7+ years of actuarial experience in disability analytics, SOA designation, and strong communication. Hybrid/remote work is available with on-site requirements as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• 7+ years of actuarial experience in 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide actuarial leadership for claims risk management model design across LTD and STD use cases.
• Translate disability claims experience into actuarial measures and business metrics for model performance and financial impact.
• Partner with data science, claims, technology, finance, and vendors to ensure model insights are explainable and embedded in workflows.
• Support model governance, validation standards, monitoring routines, and documentation of model stability and bias.
• Develop reporting frameworks linking model outputs to loss ratio trends, reserve implications, and claim performance indicators.
• Serve as a senior actuarial SME for model pilots and deployment, communicating recommendations to leadership.

Skills

Actuarial leadership

Strong communication

Disability claims analytics

Model governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science/Math/Statistics

SOA Associate or Fellow designation

Tools

Excel

SQL

R

Python

Power BI

Job description

Prudential is seeking a Director, Actuary - Group Advanced Analytics to provide actuarial leadership for AI-enabled disability claims intelligence across the LTD and STD lifecycles. You will ensure model outputs are actuarially sound, explainable, and aligned with claims management, loss ratios, and reserves.

The role requires 7+ years of actuarial experience in disability analytics, SOA designation, and strong communication. Hybrid/remote work is available with on-site requirements as needed.