Director, Actuary

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. The Director, Actuary is responsible for leading Corporate Actuarial functions for workers' compensation and other P&C lines of business. This leadership position will manage a growing team of actuaries responsible for actuarial analyses in the areas of reserving, reinsurance, pricing, ratemaking, analytics, and systems integration. Duties also include enhancing enterprise risk management capabilities, applying predictive models, researching workers' compensation industry trends, and developing and delivering presentations to a senior level audience.

Responsibilities

Leading Corporate Actuarial functions for workers' compensation and other P&C lines of business; Managing a growing team of actuaries responsible for actuarial analyses in the areas of reserving, reinsurance, pricing, ratemaking, analytics, and systems integration; Enhancing enterprise risk management capabilities, applying predictive models, researching workers' compensation industry trends, and developing and delivering presentations to a senior level audience; Ensuring consistent use of methods and assumptions across all lines of business; Guiding team members in developing loss trends storylines; Managing regular reporting deliverables including competitor commentary and pure premium relativity; Establishing relationships and collaborating with cross-functional areas; Responsible for high quality and reproducible predictive and descriptive tools; Monitoring business portfolio KPIs such as frequency and severity trends and proactively informing senior management; Collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data from multiple sources; Writing and maintaining code to build and maintain data pipelines for production models; Using and developing advanced actuarial techniques; Producing sound rate level indications; Working with reinsurers and reinsurance broker to optimize reinsurance program and create reporting; Working with external partners like AM Best, auditors, and external consultants; Partnering with Data team to identify and establish actuarial data requirements; Providing regular status updates to senior leadership; Supporting, mentoring, coaching, and providing professional development for team; Identifying hiring needs and being hiring manager for recruiting high quality analysts

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree required; 10+ years of progressive insurance Actuarial experience required; Fellow of Casualty Actuarial Society; Experienced leader with 6+ years of people leadership; Strong ability to motivate others to take initiative and establish psychological safety for team members to test, learn, and grow; Master communicator with ability to communicate up and down organizational levels and strong executive presence; Highly collaborative; Strategic thinker and problem solver; Proactive operator; AI-Native; Independent judgment

Nice to have

Experience using SnowFlake, SQL, Python, and other programming languages

Benefits

Competitive cash compensation; Comprehensive health plans; Generous PTO; Future focused 401k match; Generous parental and caregiver leave; Core values reflected in our work; Discretionary bonuses