Reinsurance Specialist - Program Business - Ai Trainer

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 69,000 - 98,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks a Reinsurance & Program Business Specialist for a remote contract role. Expect 20–40 hours per week at $80/hour, with payments weekly via Stripe Connect.

You will design treaty and program reinsurance scenarios and prepare contract summaries and risk analyses. You will assess structure changes in risk transfer, earnings, collateral and reporting; identify misunderstandings of layers, retentions and claims handling; and provide written feedback to the research team to improve model

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in reinsurance, program business, delegated authority, fronting, captive insurance, or alternative risk transfer.
• Understand at least one of: treaty reinsurance, facultative reinsurance, MGA/MGU programs, Lloyd's arrangements, captives, or fronted programs.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Reinsurance

Program business

Delegated authority

Fronting

Captive insurance

Alternative risk transfer

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Reinsurance & Program Business Specialist

Type: Contract

Compensation: $80/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 20–40 hours/week

Role 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.

Qualifications

Must-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.

Preferred

• 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.

Start Date

• Immediately; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor, Paid weekly via Stripe Connect.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [e-mail]

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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