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. The average day in the life of a Pie Underwriter involves a high volume of daily transactions ranging from making underwriting decisions to issuing a certificate of insurance.
We expect your role will evolve quickly as Pie grows.
- 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.
- Some travel could be required in this position, up to 10% travel.
High School diploma or GED required. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with some college coursework is preferred
- Minimum 3 years of underwriting experience or equivalent is required
- 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
- Experience with Insurity, HubSpot and Salesforce preferred
- Verifying businesses using various resources and databases like Google, Yelp, LinkedIn, Facebook and similar sites
- Experience underwriting insurance for payroll partners is very valuable.
- Strong expertise in the California workers' compensation market is preferred