Renewals Underwriter
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Pie Insurance is an insurtech company tackling meaningful problems .At Pie, we work with small businesses using technology and innovation to improve how they access insurance. Like our small business clients, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs. So, at the heart of every decision we make is the idea that if it doesn’t serve our clients, it doesn’t serve us.
The Renewals Underwriter will provide renewal quoting production and meet renewal retention goals. You will initiate contact with Small Business Owners to discuss and negotiate renewal policies. You will also determine eligibility for new coverage and policies, including quoting and selling.
Today, all Pie-oneers are working remotely and will continue to do so until it is safe to return to the office. As a remote team member, you will be expected to be available for meetings with team members in other time zones and have access to reliable, high-speed internet.
This role will work in our Denver office once our office re-opens. However, we will consider this role for continued remote work in the United States once our offices reopen with up to 10% travel to Denver and/or DC.
How You'll Do It
- Review individual risks within renewal processes, and determine pricing and coverage terms in conjunction with Pie's guidelines.
- Check for accuracy of information and verify premiums, proofread policies, handle clerical processing of policies throughout the policy term.
- 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.
- Build and maintain outstanding customer relationships.
- Prioritize and resolve customer inquiries for documentation or support.
- Provides technical assistance to the sales team and customers regarding policy and endorsement provisions and underwriting acceptability for designated insurance coverage.
- Maintain strong industry knowledge on WC underwriting expertise and changes in market/account positions.
- Develop and maintain full knowledge of all forms, coverage ratings and manuals for the specific line being underwritten.
- Participate in review and evaluation of risk portfolio, make recommendations on book management issues.
- Take on other tasks, responsibilities and projects as needed.
The Right Stuff
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with some college coursework is preferred.
- 1 year of renewal underwriting experience is required; 3 years of experience is preferred.
- 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.
- You’ll constantly use Insurity, HubSpot and possibly also Salesforce, so prior experience with those systems are helpful.
- You’ll also be verifying businesses using Google, Yelp, LinkedIn, Facebook and similar sites, so comfort navigating those is a must.
- Active license, or ability to quickly obtain it, is preferred.
- Experience underwriting insurance for small businesses, our primary audience, is helpful.
- Strong expertise in the California workers' compensation market is a huge plus.
Pie Perks
- Competitive salary
- A piece of the Pie (in the form of stock options)
- Comprehensive health plans
- Generous PTO
- Paid sick leave
- Future focused 401k match
- Our core values are more than just a poster on the wall; they’re tangibly reflected in our work and recognized with our monthly culture award.
- Generous parental leave
Compensation & Benefits
Our goal is to make all aspects of working with us as easy as Pie. That includes our offer process. When we have identified talent that is a good fit for Pie, we work hard to present an equitable and fair offer. We look at your knowledge, skills and experience along with your compensation expectations and align that with our company equity processes to determine our offer ranges. We value and want to support our team members, and are proud to offer a comprehensive compensation package which includes the following:
Compensation Range for position: $58,000 - $82,000
Pie Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.
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