Personal Lines Underwriting Director Strategy Execution

Our Personal Lines team is looking to add an Underwriting Director of Strategy Execution.

This is a full time, exempt role.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Director, PL Underwriting Strategy – Guidelines & Models is a strategic leader responsible for the design, governance, and strategic evolution of underwriting guidelines, rules, decision logic, and rating/underwriting models across Personal Lines. This role translates the company’s risk appetite and growth objectives into clear, executable underwriting strategies that are embedded in systems, tools, and frontline decision-making.

This leader partners closely with Analytics, Product, IT, and Underwriting Operations to ensure underwriting intent is precisely articulated, analytically supported, and consistently deployed at scale. The role manages a team of strategy professionals and plays a critical role in modernizing underwriting through data, automation, and advanced analytics.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Own the end-to-end underwriting guidelines strategy for Personal Lines, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with enterprise risk appetite and portfolio objectives


• Lead thedevelopment, governance, and evolution of underwriting rules, decision trees, and eligibility frameworks across channels and products


• Define the strategic roadmap forunderwriting models, including risk segmentation, pricing support, and decision automation in partnership with Analytics and Actuarial


• Translate complex analytic outputs intoactionable underwriting guidance suitable for both automated and human decisioning


• Establish and maintainstrong governance frameworks to ensure guideline changes, model updates, and rule deployments are controlled, documented, and auditable


• Drive underwriting modernization initiatives, including increasedautomation, straight-through processing, and model-driven decisioning


• Partner with IT and Delivery teams to ensure underwriting strategies are accurately implemented in systems and monitored post-deployment


• Develop robustmonitoring and feedback loops to assess guideline and model performance, identify issues, and recommend enhancements


• Produce executive-ready materials explaining underwriting logic, tradeoffs, and impacts in a clear and compelling manner


• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of strategy professionals; set expectations, provide coaching, and manage performance


• Represent underwriting strategy in senior leadership forums and cross-functional design decisions

KEY SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

• Underwriting & Decision Science Expertise – Deep understanding of underwriting guidelines, decision frameworks, and the practical application of predictive models


• Strategic Translation – Ability to convert abstract risk appetite and analytic insight into executable underwriting rules and guidance


• Analytical Fluency – Comfort partnering with data science, actuarial, and analytics teams; able to challenge and interpret model outputs


• Operational Mindset – Understands system constraints, frontline usability, and the realities of deploying strategy at scale


• Change Leadership – Proven ability to lead teams through significant change in tools, processes, and ways of working


• People Leadership – Demonstrated success as a people manager, including talent development and performance management


• Executive Communication – Ability to explain complex underwriting and modeling concepts succinctly to senior leaders

WHAT YOU NEED TO APPLY:

• 7+ years of relevant work experience and 3+ years of proven experience leading cross functional teams