Life Underwriting Manager - Analytics-Driven Leader (Remote)

Guardian Life; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 95,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life seeks a proven leader in life underwriting to balance discipline with innovation. You will inspire underwriters to embrace analytics, coach for judgment on complex cases, and collaborate across product, distribution, and technology teams to improve outcomes.

Role emphasizes overseeing adjudication during peak volumes, directing a team, and leveraging dashboards to drive mortality improvements and faster turnaround times in a fully remote US setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive life underwriting expertise with authority on complex cases.
• 5+ years of life underwriting leadership experience.
• Experience with automated underwriting platforms and quality control.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert judgment on highly complex cases and oversee adjudication.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters and ensure SLAs.
• Leverage analytics to monitor mortality, placement, cycle time, and referrals.
• Pilot new underwriting technologies and measure outcomes.
• Coach underwriters in analytics, digital tools, and customer-centric practices.

Skills

Life underwriting

Team leadership

Underwriting analytics

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Tools

RHO

PIA

Job description

Guardian Life seeks a proven leader in life underwriting to balance discipline with innovation. You will inspire underwriters to embrace analytics, coach for judgment on complex cases, and collaborate across product, distribution, and technology teams to improve outcomes.

Role emphasizes overseeing adjudication during peak volumes, directing a team, and leveraging dashboards to drive mortality improvements and faster turnaround times in a fully remote US setting.