Underwriting Program Leader

nirvana; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Nirvana is seeking an underwriting leader to build and own a program on our AI-native platform. Bring deep underwriting expertise, a proven track record in profitable niches, and a clear vision for the program you would launch with the capital, capacity, and platform Nirvana provides.

You will partner with data science, engineering, and capacity teams to scale and optimize a new line of business, shaping pricing, risk selection, and go-to-market strategy.

Job description

Program LeaderNirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We're bringing much-needed innovation to the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry with an AI-native platform that changes how an insurance company operates, from risk selection and pricing to underwriting, claims and loss prevention.We proved the model in commercial auto, one of the toughest lines in insurance. Using real-time telematics data from more than 30 billion miles, we built predictive models that understand and price risk better. Since then we've grown to serve thousands of fleets and more than doubled written premium year over year, with a loss ratio, efficiency and customer experience that are redefining what's possible. Now we're taking the same platform (data, technology and underwriting discipline) into new lines of business and new programs.With $270+ million raised, including our Series D round in December 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, Glassdoor, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Nationwide, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the Role

Are you an underwriting leader with deep expertise in a profitable niche, and a clear view of the program you'd build if you had the capital, capacity, and right platform behind you? We're opening this role to program leaders across lines of business who want to build and own a program of their choice on Nirvana's platform. You bring the niche, the underwriting expertise and the relationships. We bring an AI-native platform, data science, engineering, capacity relationships, and the capital to launch and scale the program.\