Underwriting Governance Lead – Rules & LOA

Selective Insurance; Millburn (NJ); On-site; USD 155,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition assistance

20 days PTO

Job summary

Selective Insurance seeks a governance leader to own the underwriting guideline framework across the enterprise. You will define, enforce, and automate guideline processes, including LOA administration, currency updates, and cross-functional collaboration with underwriting practices, QA, IT, and product teams.

You will ensure a single source of truth for guidelines, supervise currency, and support AI-driven underwriting tools with well-maintained materials and training.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of commercial underwriting guidelines and operating frameworks.
• Experience designing and managing governance frameworks, compliance systems, or enterprise content management.
• Ability to map guidelines to multiple channels including human and AI-driven systems.
• Ability to design governance processes balancing flexibility with enterprise consistency.
• Excellent writing and editing to create clear, structured reference material.
• Strong analytics to monitor governance health metrics and drive improvements.
• Cross-functional leadership without direct authority across IT, QA, Training, Product, and Operations.
• Strong project management for large inventories of guidelines and dependencies.
• Ability to train stakeholders on governance processes and compliance expectations.
• Forward-thinking on automation/AI and source-of-truth integrity.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and own the governance structure for underwriting guidelines.
• Serve as the authoritative steward of the enterprise source of truth for guidelines.
• Maintain currency and refresh cadence; manage changes and publication across systems.
• Ensure guidelines are clear, accessible, and well-structured for users and automation.
• Monitor currency, surface gaps, and coordinate with business units to resolve.
• Build and train teams on the governance system for enterprise scale.
• Align automated rules and LOA administration with guideline source of truth.
• Collaborate with IT, Product, and Operations to reflect guideline changes in automation.
• Provide governance metrics and reporting for enterprise health.

Skills

Underwriting governance

Governance frameworks

Cross-functional leadership

Documentation & editing

Analytics & metrics

Automation & AI awareness

Content management

Policy & process design

Stakeholder training

Change management

Communication skills

Education

College degree preferred

10+ years in underwriting/compliance/governance

5+ years governance framework design

Experience with AI/automated rules

CPCU/AU or similar designation preferred

Job description

Selective Insurance seeks a governance leader to own the underwriting guideline framework across the enterprise. You will define, enforce, and automate guideline processes, including LOA administration, currency updates, and cross-functional collaboration with underwriting practices, QA, IT, and product teams.

You will ensure a single source of truth for guidelines, supervise currency, and support AI-driven underwriting tools with well-maintained materials and training.