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. 

How You’ll Do It

• 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.

The Right Stuff

• High School diploma or GED required. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience with some college coursework is preferred
• 1 year of underwriting experience is required. 3+ years of underwriting 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.
• 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 

Travel Requirements

• Some travel could be required in this position, up to 10% travel.

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