Compliance Director

Who we are:

Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

We’ve already proven the scale—serving thousands of fleets and more than doubling our written premiums year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 30 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.

With $270+ million raised, including our Series D round in December 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the role:

We’re looking for an experienced Compliance Director who can both contribute independently and manage a small team (direct report & cross functional stakeholders) to continuing building a best-in-class compliance function for Nirvana.

This role will be responsible for overseeing and improving our regulatory compliance function across all of Nirvana’s states and lines of business. This role will report to the Insurance Product Director.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as a liaison between Nirvana Insurance and the state departments of insurance

• Oversee vendors who currently assist with various regulatory compliance functions

• Create, maintain, and improve all required Statistical Reporting, DMV Reporting, and other state-required reports for all states and lines of business in which Nirvana operates

• Manage state surcharge/taxes/fees assessment process

• Research and tailor countrywide product changes to meet the regulatory requirements in each state

• Draft, review, and implement policyholder notices explaining rate changes, product changes, and/or regulatory changes

• Interpret state laws and regulatory changes, determine impact to Nirvana’s product portfolio and operations, and create recommendations to efficiently comply with the regulations

• Assist state and/or reinsurance auditors in retrieving historical rates, rules, underwriting guidelines, policy forms, or agent communications

• Review and analyze state insurance department statutes, regulations, bulletins, etc. to determine new reporting requirements and create recommendations to comply.

• Maintain company licensing and accreditation and prepare supportive filings

• Assist in drafting state objection responses and work with various stakeholders to overcome department objections and achieve business objectives

• Assist with ensuring the agency and agent appointment process is compliant with state regulations

• Lead and respond to state data calls

• Assist with market conduct exams

• Own various other Insurance Product projects as they arise 

• Respond to compliance research requests from across the company to provide regulatory guidance on various initiatives

• Be a foundational driver of results for a category re-defining insurance company

  About you:

• 7+ years of experience at a Commercial Property & Casualty insurance carrier within the Product Management, Product Development, State Management, State Filings, Underwriting, Legal, Compliance, or related functions.

• Four (4) year completed degree in a related field or equivalent work experience

• Ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems related to regulatory operations activities

• Highly organized

• Experience with SQL, SAS, Python or other programming language

• Associate in Regulation and Compliance (ARC) and/or Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) preferred but not required

• Excellent team player who effectively works cross functionally

• Strong communication skills, both written & verbal

• Thorough critical thinker who isn’t afraid to make decisions

• Self-starter who independently seeks out opportunities to learn & succeed

• Bias-to-action - you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty & stretch yourself

• Owner mentality - take accountability for your actions & results

• Successfully able to work in high-growth & ambiguous start-up environments

Benefits:

• Competitive salary & equity

• Medical, dental & vision insurance

• 401k with company match

• Unlimited PTO

• Work from home friendly

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