Vouch has employees located across the U.S., with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. This role can be based anywhere in the U.S. as long as you can work our Vouch core collaboration hours (8:30 am-2:30 pm Pacific Time) when most internal meetings are held.
Role Responsibilities:
Vouch is actively seeking a dynamic, driven, and detail-oriented Underwriter with expertise in Cyber and professional and/or management liability lines. In this important role, your key responsibilities will include working closely with a Portfolio Underwriting Manager, our insureds, and sales teams to underwrite accounts within one or more of our innovation economy verticals according to Vouch’s guidelines and underwriting strategy. A key part of your role will be to seek opportunities to provide creative insurance solutions to our clients and work with Portfolio Underwriting Managers to drive improvements in underwriting efficiency and effectiveness.Job Duties:
- Underwrite a diverse product portfolio in a given innovation economy vertical to deliver target New Business, Renewal Retention, and Loss Ratio goals adhering to Vouch’s underwriting strategy and guidelines
- Refer accounts outside authority to the Portfolio Underwriter with actionable proposals
- Continuously seek ways to standardize the decision-making process from a quantitative and qualitative standpoint to inform and augment our underwriting processes. Clearly document underwriting decisions with rationale in the underwriting file
- Collaborate closely with the sales team on individual deals to ensure the best possible outcomes to drive proprietary product adoption and cross-sell and creative solutions to attract new clients and retain existing customers
- Deliver actionable underwriting decision-making and process improvement proposals
- Collaborate with Portfolio Underwriters and other team members to deliver key inputs into guidelines and underwriting, coverage, and pricing strategies
- Deliver and drive special underwriting projects
About You:
- 5-10 years of experience in underwriting within Cyber, Management and/or Professional Liability, with a strong commitment to driving growth and profitability through disciplined underwriting practices
- Understanding of key P&C lines of insurance and desire to learn new lines
- Ability to demonstrate a relentless commitment to GWP Growth and Loss Ratio performance through diligent underwriting and customer support
- Extreme attention to detail and service orientation
- Insatiably curious and strong desire to make the most effective and efficient underwriting decisions carefully balancing all key considerations
- Proven ability to clearly articulate underwriting decisions and thought process
- Relentless commitment to process improvement
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- A team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships with team members and external stakeholders
Nice To Have:
- Exposure to and passion for early-stage startups and/or high-growth environments
Vouch provides several benefits to help you bring your best self to work:
- 💰 Competitive compensation and equity packages
- ⚕️ Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 👶 Parental leave
- 🌴 Flexible vacation time (Unlimited PTO)
- 🎨 🧠 Wellness allowance ($80/month)
- 📲 🛜 Technology allowance ($100/month)
- 📚 Professional Development ($500/Yr)
- 💻 🎧 Home office setup (One-time $500)
- 🏫 📈 L&D: Partnerships with Ethena, Hone, and monthly Lunch & Learns
- 🏳️🌈 ♀️ 🤝 Employee Groups: Vouch supports various employee groups to foster an inclusive, equitable workplace and create affirming, empowering, employee-centered spaces for conversation, community, and support. These groups include Pride @ Vouch, Women @ Vouch, Black @ Vouch, Virtual Connections, Pop Culture, Pets of Vouch, Skincare, Astrology, Plants, etc.
- 🧘 💲 Wellbeing: Voucher’s have access to many wellbeing perks, including Calm, Peloton, Headspace, Fetch, OneMedical, SoFi, etc.
- 📊 Annual performance reviews with quarterly check-ins: Vouch conducts quarterly review discussions with all team members, offering goal setting and check-ins, development discussions, and promotion opportunities.
What to expect in the interview process:
- 30-minute phone call with our recruiting team
- 30-45 minute Zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Case study/technical screen
- Meet the team! 30-45 min 1:1 Zoom meetings with 3-4 team members you’d work closely with in the role