Remote Life Underwriting Leader

Guardian Life; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 94,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a senior life underwriting leader who balances 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 provide expert oversight on highly complex cases, lead a team, leverage analytics dashboards, pilot new underwriting technologies, and mentor

Qualifications

• Extensive life underwriting expertise with authority on complex cases.
• Minimum 5 years of life underwriting leadership experience.
• Experience with automated underwriting platforms and quality control.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to coach underwriters and promote digital fluency.
• Commitment to ethics, regulatory compliance, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert judgment and oversight on highly complex cases.
• Oversee complex adjudication during peak volumes with analytics.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters and manage workload.
• Leverage dashboards to monitor mortality, placement, cycle time.
• Pilot new underwriting technologies and document outcomes.
• Coach staff in analytical thinking and digital tools.
• Negotiate appeals using professional judgment and guidelines.

Skills

Life underwriting

Leadership

Analytics

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

RHO

PIA

Job description

Guardian Life is seeking a senior life underwriting leader who balances 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 provide expert oversight on highly complex cases, lead a team, leverage analytics dashboards, pilot new underwriting technologies, and mentor