Senior Life Underwriting Leader — Remote

Guardian Life; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 95,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a senior Life Underwriter leader who balances operational discipline with innovation. You will guide expert judgment on complex cases, lead a team of underwriters, and collaborate across product, distribution, and technology to improve mortality outcomes and customer satisfaction.

The role emphasizes coaching teams in analytics, digital tools, and ethical, compliant decision-making while partnering with reinsurers and vendors to optimize processes.

Qualifications

• Extensive life underwriting expertise and authority to adjudicate complex, high-value cases.
• Minimum 5 years of life underwriting experience with team leadership.
• Experience with automated underwriting platforms and quality control.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; collaboration with reinsurers and vendors.
• Experience coaching underwriters to build digital fluency and adopt new tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert judgment on highly complex cases, ensuring consistency with guidelines.
• Oversee complex adjudication during peak volumes with analytics-driven improvements.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters, set daily priorities and ensure SLA adherence.
• Utilize analytics dashboards to monitor mortality, placement, cycle time, and referral rates; drive improvements.
• Pilot and validate new underwriting technologies and vendor solutions with documented outcomes.
• Coach and upskill underwriters in analytical thinking and customer-centric practices.

Skills

Life underwriting

Leadership

Analytics

Communication

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Digital tools adoption

Team coaching

Vendor management

Ethical decision-making

Tools

RHO

PIA

Automated underwriting

Job description

Guardian Life is seeking a senior Life Underwriter leader who balances operational discipline with innovation. You will guide expert judgment on complex cases, lead a team of underwriters, and collaborate across product, distribution, and technology to improve mortality outcomes and customer satisfaction.

The role emphasizes coaching teams in analytics, digital tools, and ethical, compliant decision-making while partnering with reinsurers and vendors to optimize processes.