Manager, Life Underwriting (Remote)

Guardian Life; Juneau (AK); Remoto; USD 95.000 - 156.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Guardian Life seeks a senior leader in life underwriting who can balance operational discipline with innovation. You will coach underwriters, oversee complex cases, and drive analytics adoption to improve turnaround time and outcomes.

You will lead a team, monitor mortality metrics, and validate new underwriting technologies, ensuring compliance and stakeholder collaboration across fields and vendors.

Competenze

• Extensive life underwriting expertise with authority on complex, high‑value cases.
• 5+ years of life underwriting experience leading teams and complex decisions.
• Working knowledge of automated underwriting platforms (RHO, PIA) and QA.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management with reinsurers and vendors.
• Ability to coach underwriters to adopt digital tools and new workflows.
• Commitment to ethics, regulatory compliance and sustainable practices.

Mansioni

• Provide expert judgment on highly complex and escalated cases with guideline consistency.
• Oversee adjudication during peak volumes, promoting analytics and modern platforms.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters, set priorities and ensure SLAs.
• Use analytics dashboards to track mortality, placement, cycle time and referrals.
• Pilot and validate new underwriting tech and vendor solutions with business cases.
• Coach underwriters in analytical thinking, digital tools and customer‑centric practices.
• Negotiate appeals using professional judgment and established guidelines when needed.
• Communicate with field force and home office to gather information and convey decisions.

Conoscenze

Life underwriting

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Strumenti

RHO

PIA

Descrizione del lavoro

Fully Remote

Remote - United States

Full time

You are

A leader who excels at balancing operational discipline with innovation. You inspire underwriters to embrace analytics and modern tools, coach for judgment and consistency on complex cases, and collaborate across product, distribution, and technology teams to improve turnaround time, mortality outcomes, and customer satisfaction.

You have

Required Qualifications

• Extensive life underwriting expertise, including authority to adjudicate complex, high-value cases and provide guidance on escalated decisions.
• Minimum 5 years of life underwriting experience, with demonstrated ability to lead teams and manage complex case decisions.
• Working knowledge of automated underwriting platforms and programs (e.g., Random Holdouts (RHO), Post-Issue Audits (PIA)); experience managing quality control.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to collaborate with reinsurers and vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a collaborative team culture while coaching underwriters to build digital fluency and confidently adopt new tools and workflows.
• Commitment to ethical decision‑making, regulatory compliance, and sustainable practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using advanced analytics and visualization tools to monitor underwriting performance, uncover patterns, and inform continuous improvement initiatives.
• Familiarity with Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, GenAI-enabled tools, and behavioral economics concepts applicable to underwriting.

You will

• Provide expert judgment and oversight on highly complex and escalated cases, ensuring consistency with underwriting guidelines and mortality objectives; manage facultative referrals when appropriate.
• Oversee complex case adjudication during peak volumes, ensuring accuracy and consistency while promoting the use of analytics and modern underwriting platforms.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters, set daily priorities, and ensure service‑level adherence, consistency, and quality.
• Leverage analytics dashboards to track mortality, placement, cycle time, and referral rates; implement targeted improvements.
• Pilot and validate new underwriting technologies and vendor solutions; document business cases and measure outcomes.
• Coach, develop, and upskill underwriters in analytical thinking, digital tools, and customer‑centric practices.
• Negotiate appeals with the use of professional judgment, industry knowledge & business sense to go outside the established company guidelines in order to make determinations on requests for formal changes to official decisions made previously by Life Underwriters, Senior Life Underwriters, & Life Underwriting Specialists
• Communicate with the field force and home office personnel for the purpose of acquiring necessary information, solving problems, and conveying decisions in a polite, confident, and professional manner

Salary Range:

$94,840.00 - $155,800.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill‑building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well‑being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits . Benefits apply to full‑time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail] . Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.

Visa Sponsorship

Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment‑based visas (e.g., such as an H‑1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.

Notice Regarding Guardian’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

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Please be aware that if you apply for a specific position with Guardian, you will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process. If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to [e-mail] , making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number. Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy, a copy of which you may request via [e-mail] .

Additionally, at applicable times, Guardian will make public the most recent bias audit results for such AI tools, which may be found here (https://assets.ctfassets.net/gau1nv66ynug/1M2AOzFsFCirlWeAmIh4MD/23463b78b6cdd8ebdce9410b98d7a080/Audit.pdf) .

Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well‑being, guides our dedication to the colleagues, consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well‑being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first. Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM. Learn more about Guardian at guardianlife.com .

Visa Sponsorship:

Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment‑based visas (e.g., such as an H‑1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.