Remote Life Underwriting Manager - Analytics & Leadership

Guardian Life; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 95,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking an experienced underwriting leader to balance operational discipline with innovation. You will guide underwriters in complex cases, drive analytics adoption, and collaborate with product, distribution, and technology teams to improve outcomes and customer satisfaction.

The role emphasizes leadership over a senior team, adherence to ethical standards, and the use of modern tools to enhance mortality outcomes while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Extensive life underwriting expertise with authority on complex, high-value cases.
• Minimum 5 years of life underwriting experience with ability to lead teams and make decisions.
• Working knowledge of automated underwriting platforms and programs (e.g., RHO, PIA); experience with quality control.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert judgment on highly complex and escalated cases, ensuring consistency with guidelines and mortality objectives.
• Oversee complex case adjudication during peak volumes, ensuring accuracy and promoting analytics usage.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters, set daily priorities, and ensure SLAs and quality.
• Leverage analytics dashboards to monitor mortality, placement, cycle time, and referral rates, and drive improvements.
• Pilot and validate new underwriting technologies and vendor solutions with documented business cases.
• Coach and upskill underwriters in analytical thinking, digital tools, and customer-centric practices.
• Negotiate appeals using professional judgment and industry knowledge to deviate from guidelines when appropriate.

Skills

Life underwriting expertise

Leadership experience

Automated underwriting platforms

Communication & stakeholder management

Coaching underwriters

Ethics & regulatory compliance

Job description

Guardian Life is seeking an experienced underwriting leader to balance operational discipline with innovation. You will guide underwriters in complex cases, drive analytics adoption, and collaborate with product, distribution, and technology teams to improve outcomes and customer satisfaction.

The role emphasizes leadership over a senior team, adherence to ethical standards, and the use of modern tools to enhance mortality outcomes while maintaining regulatory compliance.