Underwriter, Workers' Compensation

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance. Our Underwriters are on the front lines, interacting with our customers all day, every day. Every underwriting call, email and message has a profound impact on our business and our reputation.

Responsibilities

Leverage workers’ compensation or commercial insurance underwriting expertise to assess medium to complex risks in order to underwrite and bind new and renewal coverage; Quickly and effectively decide each request through the use of Pie’s underwriting guidelines and known risk exposures and loss frequency and severity; Achieve profitable growth through appropriate risk evaluation while building and maintaining outstanding payroll partner customer relationships; Prioritize and resolve payroll partner customer inquiries for documentation or support; Provides technical assistance to the payroll partner sales team and customers regarding policy and endorsement provisions and underwriting acceptability for designated insurance coverages; Maintain strong industry knowledge on commercial insurance underwriting expertise and changes in market/account positions; Develop and maintain full knowledge of all forms, coverages, ratings, and manuals for the specific line being underwritten; Participate in review and evaluation of risk portfolio, making recommendations on book management issues; Take on other tasks, responsibilities and projects as needed

Requirements

High School diploma or GED; Minimum 3 years of underwriting experience or equivalent; Intermediate to advanced knowledge of workers’ compensation class codes; Ability to sell our product while simultaneously discerning risk characteristics within the direct to business market; Ability to balance the outstanding execution of processes while handling a high volume of transactions; Verifying businesses using various resources and databases like Google, Yelp, LinkedIn, Facebook and similar sites

Nice to have

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with some college coursework; Experience with Insurity, HubSpot and Salesforce preferred; Experience underwriting insurance for payroll partners is very valuable; Strong expertise in the California workers' compensation market is preferred

Benefits

Competitive cash compensation; Comprehensive health plans; Generous PTO; Future focused 401k match; Generous parental and caregiver leave; Discretionary bonuses