Remote Lead Life Underwriting & Analytics Coach

Guardian Life; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 95,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life seeks a leader in life underwriting who balances operational discipline with innovation. You will inspire underwriters to embrace analytics and modern tools, coach for judgment on complex cases, and collaborate across product, distribution, and technology teams to improve turnaround time, mortality outcomes, and customer satisfaction.

You will leverage analytics dashboards, lead a team of underwriters, ensure SLAs and quality, and pilot new technologies while documenting business

Qualifications

• Extensive life underwriting experience with authority on complex, high-value cases.
• Minimum 5 years of life underwriting experience with leadership experience.
• Experience with automated underwriting platforms (RHO, PIA) and quality control.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; ability to work with reinsurers and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert judgment and oversight on highly complex cases, ensuring adherence to guidelines and mortality objectives.
• Oversee complex case adjudication during peak volumes, promoting analytics and modern platforms.
• Lead and develop underwriters, set priorities, ensure SLAs and quality.
• Use analytics dashboards to monitor mortality, placement, cycle time, and referrals; drive improvements.
• Pilot new underwriting technologies; document business cases and measure outcomes.
• Coach and upskill underwriters in analytics, digital tools, and customer-centric practices.

Skills

Underwriting expertise

Leadership

Communication

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Tools

Random Holdouts (RHO)

Post-Issue Audits (PIA)

Automated underwriting platforms

Job description

Guardian Life seeks a leader in life underwriting who balances operational discipline with innovation. You will inspire underwriters to embrace analytics and modern tools, coach for judgment on complex cases, and collaborate across product, distribution, and technology teams to improve turnaround time, mortality outcomes, and customer satisfaction.

You will leverage analytics dashboards, lead a team of underwriters, ensure SLAs and quality, and pilot new technologies while documenting business