Remote Corporate Counsel, Insurance & Compliance

Porch Group; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Dental plans

Vision plan

HSA & FSA

Life & disability

Wellbeing program

Paid holidays

Job summary

Porch Group is seeking a Corporate Counsel, Insurance to provide legal services to business unit leadership and guide the Insurance division through regulatory and compliance initiatives. You will lead the insurance legal and compliance team under the General Counsel, driving strategic initiatives, filings, and governance with senior stakeholders.

You will work with Finance, Product, Compliance, and Claims to advance approvals, launches, and examination outcomes, while staying current on

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in Texas, at a law firm, government, insurance regulator, and/or in-house role, including insurance regulatory experience and leading legal or compliance workstreams.
• Direct experience with insurance regulatory matters, including state DOI filings, rate and form approvals, market conduct, or InsurTech operations.
• Flexible, solution-oriented, collaborative mindset.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executive audiences and support senior leadership decision making on matters of risk.
• Experience building scalable legal and compliance frameworks, policies, and best practices.
• Up-to-date understanding of the key legal issues germane to an insurance organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Proficiency in managing multiple priorities, projects, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Independently provide legal counsel to senior leadership, including the carrier's executive team, to support business objectives and mitigate regulatory, compliance and litigation risk to Porch.
• Lead and develop the Insurance legal and compliance team, setting priorities, managing performance, and supporting hiring and growth.
• Own multiple, increasingly complex strategic legal and regulatory initiatives tied to company strategy.
• Prepare and review insurance related filings covering new products, quarterly and annual reports, governance reports and more.
• Lead the Insurance division secretarial function, including preparation of materials for the insurance carrier's Board of Directors and Committee meetings.
• Lead cross-functional programs with Finance, Product, Compliance, and Claims that drive business outcomes such as approvals secured, market launches, and examination results.
• Proactively monitor and analyze changes in laws, regulations and industry, and advise appropriate organizational leadership of such changes in a timely manner.
• Anticipate potential or future legal and operational issues that present a risk to the organization, and proactively engage with others to identify potential solutions.
• Build and maintain the Insurance legal and compliance framework, including policies, filing processes, and governance playbooks, and develop best practices that can serve as Porch standards.
• Produce clear and concise legal positions involving highly complex issues.
• Manage outside counsel to obtain legal advice.

Skills

Executive communication

Regulatory compliance

Insurance law

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Job description

Porch Group is seeking a Corporate Counsel, Insurance to provide legal services to business unit leadership and guide the Insurance division through regulatory and compliance initiatives. You will lead the insurance legal and compliance team under the General Counsel, driving strategic initiatives, filings, and governance with senior stakeholders.

You will work with Finance, Product, Compliance, and Claims to advance approvals, launches, and examination outcomes, while staying current on