Renewal Underwriting Manager

Nirvana Insurance; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nirvana Insurance is seeking a Renewal Underwriting Manager to lead a team of seasoned underwriters, focusing on mid-term and renewal business within the transportation sector. This role will emphasize balancing profitability and customer retention while driving data-informed renewal strategies in a high-growth, dynamic environment. As part of a globally distributed team, strong communication and management skills are essential for success in this position.

Benefits

Competitive salary & equity

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401k with company match

Unlimited PTO

Work from home friendly

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of underwriting experience, with minimum of 3 years in people management.
• Proven success underwriting in the transportation sector, preferably trucking.
• Experience managing a distributed team is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and engage a team of 4-6 experienced underwriters.
• Manage team workflow and interact with external partners.
• Partner with leadership to deliver strategies for long-term innovation.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Communication

Critical thinking

People management

Job description

Who we are:

Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

We’ve already proven the scale—reaching well over $100 million in premiums and more than doubling year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 20 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.

With $170+ million raised, including an industry-leading Series C round in January 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the role:

As the Renewal Underwriting Manager, you'll be responsible for leading and empowering a team of experienced underwriters who handle mid-term and renewal business. You will focus on driving a strong balance between profitability (rate get) and customer retention, ensuring we maintain a stable, growing portfolio in line with company targets.

You’ll bring strategic thinking to portfolio management, build data-informed renewal strategies, and coach underwriters to make consistently sound decisions in dynamic market conditions.

Nirvana has a globally distributed workforce. Our ideal candidate will be based in the Eastern or Central time zone.

What you’ll do:

• Leading and engaging a team of 4-6 experienced Underwriters Collaborate with Business Development team to achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual targets

• Interact with key external partners including agents and brokers

• Manage team workflow including referral setting and authority

• Partner with leadership team to deliver strategies and projects necessary for long term innovation

About you:

• 7-10 years of Underwriting experience, minimum of 3 years in people management

• Proven success Underwriting in the transportation sector, preferably trucking

• Experience managing a distributed team is a plus

• Comfort setting and executing against team goals

• Strong communication skills, both written & verbal

• Thorough critical thinker who isn’t afraid to make decisions

• Successfully able to work in high-growth & ambiguous start-up environments

• Willingness to travel as needed

Benefits:

• Competitive salary & equity

• Medical, dental & vision insurance

• 401k with company match

• Unlimited PTO

• Work from home friendly

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