Reinsurance Specialist - Program Business

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We are hiring Reinsurance and Program Business Specialists to design realistic risk-transfer scenarios, assess model outputs, and influence treaty structures, fronting, and delegated authority programs.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in reinsurance or alternative risk transfer, strong written reasoning, and the ability to evaluate complex contractual arrangements.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in reinsurance, program business, delegated authority, fronting, captive insurance, or alternative risk transfer.
• Understand treaty reinsurance, facultative reinsurance, MGA/MGU programs, Lloyd's arrangements, captives, or fronted programs.
• Can identify the economic and operational responsibilities of cedents, reinsurers, brokers, MGAs, fronting carriers, and insureds.
• Understand how contract structure changes risk transfer, earnings, collateral, claims handling, and reporting.
• Demonstrate excellent written reasoning, commercial judgment, and high attention to detail.
• Can distinguish reinsurance decisions from direct underwriting and ordinary claim adjudication.

Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving treaty and facultative reinsurance, attachment and exhaustion, cessions, recoverables, bordereaux, delegated authority, program governance, fronting, captives, and risk participation.
• Create work products such as structure comparisons, submission analyses, contract summaries, program reviews, counterparty assessments, and risk-transfer recommendations.
• Write
• golden
• reference responses at experienced reinsurance and program-business quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for structural accuracy, contract logic, financial understanding, stakeholder roles, and market realism
• Identify misunderstandings of layers, limits, retentions, commissions, claims control, collateral, counterparty exposure, and carrier-MGA responsibilities
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

Skills

Reinsurance knowledge

Analytical writing

Attention to detail

Commercial judgment

Education

CPCU / ARe / ARM / ACAS / FCAS or comparable designation

Job description

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We're hiring Reinsurance and Program Business Specialists to design realistic risk-transfer and delegated-authority scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established market standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about treaty structures, facultative placements, MGAs, fronting, and alternative risk arrangements.

We welcome professionals from reinsurers, cedents, reinsurance brokers, MGAs, MGUs, program administrators, fronting carriers, captive managers, and Lloyd's market participants.

What You'll Do

• Design realistic scenarios involving treaty and facultative reinsurance, attachment and exhaustion, cessions, recoverables, bordereaux, delegated authority, program governance, fronting, captives, and risk participation
• Create work products such as structure comparisons, submission analyses, contract summaries, program reviews, counterparty assessments, and risk-transfer recommendations
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced reinsurance and program-business quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for structural accuracy, contract logic, financial understanding, stakeholder roles, and market realism
• Identify misunderstandings of layers, limits, retentions, commissions, claims control, collateral, counterparty exposure, and carrier-MGA responsibilities
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

You're a Good Fit If You

• Have 2+ years of professional experience in reinsurance, program business, delegated authority, fronting, captive insurance, or alternative risk transfer
• Understand at least one of the following: treaty reinsurance, facultative reinsurance, MGA/MGU programs, Lloyd's arrangements, captives, or fronted programs
• Can identify the economic and operational responsibilities of cedents, reinsurers, brokers, MGAs, fronting carriers, and insureds
• Understand how contract structure changes risk transfer, earnings, collateral, claims handling, and reporting
• Demonstrate excellent written reasoning, commercial judgment, and high attention to detail
• Can distinguish reinsurance decisions from direct underwriting and ordinary claim adjudication

Bonus Qualifications

• CPCU, ARe, ARM, ACAS, FCAS, or comparable designation
• Both ceded and assumed reinsurance experience
• Reinsurance broking, treaty wording, recoverables, or claims experience
• Program audit, delegated-authority, or bordereaux-management experience
• Captive, large-deductible, retrospective-rating, or risk-sharing experience

Role Highlights

• Minimum 20 hours per week (ideally 40+)
• Role starts immediately, applications reviewed on a rolling basis