Strategic Life Underwriting Manager (Remote)

Guardian Life; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 95,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life in the United States seeks a Senior Life Underwriter Leader who balances discipline with innovation. You will inspire underwriters to adopt analytics, coach on complex cases, and collaborate with product, distribution, and technology teams to improve turnaround times and mortality outcomes.

Lead and develop a team, set priorities, ensure service-level adherence, and use analytics dashboards to monitor metrics.

Qualifications

• Extensive life underwriting expertise with authority on 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.
• Coaching underwriters to adopt digital tools and analytics.
• Commitment to ethical decisions, regulatory compliance, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert judgment on highly complex and escalated cases.
• Oversee complex case adjudication during peak volumes with analytics usage.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters and ensure service-level adherence.
• Utilize analytics dashboards to monitor mortality, placement, and referrals.
• Pilot new underwriting technologies and document business cases.

Skills

Life underwriting

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication

Digital tool adoption

Education

5+ years underwriting experience

Tools

RHO

PIA

Job description

Guardian Life in the United States seeks a Senior Life Underwriter Leader who balances discipline with innovation. You will inspire underwriters to adopt analytics, coach on complex cases, and collaborate with product, distribution, and technology teams to improve turnaround times and mortality outcomes.

Lead and develop a team, set priorities, ensure service-level adherence, and use analytics dashboards to monitor metrics.