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Kin Insurance

Direct-to-consumer coastal homeowners' insurance provider

Pricing & Risk Manager

Full-TimeUpdated
$120k - $175k/yr
Expert
Bachelor's
Remote in USA
RemoteMust be able to live and work full-time in one of the 41 listed states.
Insurance

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 10 years of insurance product experience and 6 years of relevant functional experience.
  • A bachelor's degree in business management, mathematics, finance, actuarial science, accounting, economics, engineering, or another quantitative discipline.
  • Direct insurance product management experience and a strong understanding of state-level profit and loss, insurance regulations, and product requirements.
  • Experience with rate-making, forecasting, modeling, competitive analysis, and risk portfolio management.
  • Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced environments and quickly grasp new concepts and technologies.
  • Strong project management skills to drive initiatives from strategy through execution.
  • Clear, persuasive communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities
  • Own profit and loss performance for multiple Southeast states, driving profitable growth across homeowners, auto, and related insurance lines.
  • Develop and execute state and product strategies that optimize pricing, coverage and forms, underwriting guidelines, retention, conversion, and customer experience.
  • Analyze performance data, competitive intelligence, and customer feedback to refine coverage offerings and improve application and policyholder journeys.
  • Partner with actuarial teams on rate-making, forecasting, segmentation, and risk selection strategies.
  • Lead regulatory filings and manage approval processes for rate and product changes in assigned states.
  • Collaborate with technology teams to improve agent and customer experiences through system enhancements and process improvements.
  • Identify and implement automation and operational improvements to increase efficiency and scalability.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on assigned state markets, regulatory environments, competitive dynamics, and product performance.
  • Define and validate product-market fit, leveraging quantitative analysis and customer insights to inform strategy.
  • Lead cross-functional projects from planning through execution, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes.
Desired Qualifications
  • State management experience in hurricane-exposed states.
  • Comprehensive understanding of reinsurance structures and key concepts.
  • Advanced statistical and analytical expertise to optimize risk portfolios and maximize risk-adjusted returns.

About the company

Kin Insurance provides home insurance directly to homeowners, with a focus on coastal areas, offering affordable and straightforward coverage. It sells policies directly to consumers (no brokers or agents), uses technology and data to tailor coverage and pricing, and aims to simplify the buying process. The product works by underwriting home insurance policies, collecting premiums, and continuously updating offerings to stay affordable and relevant. This direct-to-consumer model, along with personalized service and transparent processes, differentiates Kin from traditional insurers that rely on middlemen. Kin’s goal is to make home insurance accessible, easy to understand, and affordable for homeowners, especially those in high-risk coastal regions, while maintaining customer-centric support.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$1.4B

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • Kin’s Q2 2026 Premium in Force reached $701.1 million, up 23% year over year.
  • Kin priced a $335 million Hestia Re cat bond on May 6, 2026.
  • Kin launched Oklahoma home insurance and California condo-flood coverage in 2026, expanding TAM.

What critics are saying

  • Florida fined Kin Interinsurance Network $250,000 on November 3, 2025 for claims violations.
  • A major 2026 hurricane can crush reciprocal-exchange capital and force emergency capital raises.
  • State regulators in Florida, Texas, and California can tighten filings, blocking growth and raising losses.

What makes Kin Insurance unique

  • Kin’s reciprocal exchanges separate underwriting risk from management fees, accelerating capital-light growth.
  • Kin prices homes with thousands of property datapoints, not generic ZIP-code underwriting.
  • Kin bundles home and auto in Florida and Texas, cutting churn and lifting lifetime value.

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Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision
  • Life & disability
  • Commuter benefits
  • 401k
  • Education & professional development
  • Flexible PTO
  • Company provided lunch

Growth & Insights and Company News

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PR Newswire
Oct 23rd, 2026
Kin becomes first US home insurer to enable WebMCP for AI shopping via ChatGPT

Kin, a direct-to-consumer home insurer, has enabled WebMCP in its digital quoting experience. The company says it is the first US home insurer to do so. WebMCP is an open web standard that lets AI agents work directly with Kin.com, with no plug-in to install. ChatGPT can now shop Kin's home insurance for consumers, who can get a customised quote ready for purchase in minutes. ChatGPT supports the protocol for paid users on its browser-based platform; free accounts cannot use it. Kin says it analyses thousands of data points about individual homes, so it can answer most quote questions without asking homeowners. "We didn't have to reinvent Kin for AI shopping," said chief executive officer Sean Harper. The move follows Kin's decision to welcome Meta's Muse and other AI shopping agents rather than block them.

Business Wire
Sep 16th, 2026
Kin lands $33M in fresh financing from investors

Kin, the direct-to-consumer home insurance company built for every new normal, today announced the closing of a $33 million Series D extension. The funding w...

Insurance Business
Aug 13th, 2026
Kin posts profitable Q2 growth while insurtech peers still chase breakeven.

Kin posts profitable Q2 growth while insurtech peers still chase breakeven. Kin is already profitable while Lemonade still projects its first profitable quarter for Q4 - and the difference comes down to structure and geography, not just scale. Kin Insurance, the entity that manages a group of reciprocal exchanges writing home and auto coverage in catastrophe-exposed states, reported second-quarter 2026 results showing continued growth across those exchanges alongside sustained profitability at the management company level. Premium in Force across Kin's reciprocal exchanges climbed 23% year over year to $701.1 million, while gross written premium at the exchanges rose 15% to $218.9 million for the quarter. Kin Insurance's total revenue grew 16% to $68 million for the quarter, with gross margin expanding to 95%. Baseline operating income - the company's measure of profitability before growth-related spending - reached a record $28.6 million for the quarter, up 14% year over year, even as customer acquisition spending increased. How the reciprocal model works. Kin does not hold underwriting risk in the same way a standard admitted carrier does. The reciprocal exchanges hold the risk and collect the premiums; Kin Insurance Inc. manages those exchanges for a fee and earns its revenue from that management relationship. Combined adjusted net income across the managed exchanges exceeded $25 million for the quarter. That structure is worth understanding before comparing Kin's financial position directly against a standard-model carrier, because the two entities' balance sheets measure different things. Growth building through the quarter. Kin founder and CEO Sean Harper said the company bound more policies in June than in any prior month in its history. "All of our top-10 sales-volume days were in May and June," he said, adding that Kin is capturing a rising share of shoppers even as overall market shopping activity has declined. New written premium at the reciprocal exchanges reached $59.8 million for the quarter, while renewal written premium rose to $159 million. May and June each set successive monthly bind volume records. Auto attachment and AI operating leverage. Kin's bundled auto product continued to scale, with auto gross written premium at the exchanges reaching $10 million for the quarter and climbing to more than $13 million by August 10. Auto sales grew 83% quarter over quarter, driven largely by existing homeowners adding coverage alongside new customers in Florida and Texas, the two states where Kin currently offers bundling. Harper said adding auto to a homeowners policy cuts customer attrition roughly in half while generating two to three times the lifetime value of a standalone policy. That is a structural business model advantage in a market where the cost of acquiring a new policyholder has been rising steadily. The company also credited artificial intelligence with much of its operating leverage. Between the end of Q2 2025 and the same point in 2026, Kin grew Premium in Force at its reciprocal exchanges by $129 million while general and administrative expenses at Kin Insurance Inc. rose just $1.7 million - roughly $80 of premium growth for every incremental dollar of overhead. Chief Technology Officer Kevin Greene said the company's AI systems now handle work across engineering, underwriting, claims and customer support with limited corresponding headcount growth. How Kin compares with the wider insurtech field. Kin's results place it in a different financial position from its most prominent direct-to-consumer peers. Lemonade, the largest publicly traded insurtech competing in similar personal lines, reported Q2 2026 in-force premium growth of 32.5% year over year to $1.43 billion - its 11th consecutive quarter of accelerating growth - alongside 79% revenue growth to $294 million. But Lemonade posted a net loss of $43.4 million for the quarter and continues to guide toward its first quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA in Q4 2026, with full-year profitability not expected until 2027. Kin's narrower geographic footprint and reciprocal exchange structure have allowed it to reach sustained profitability at a materially earlier stage than a larger competitor pursuing a more capital-intensive national growth strategy. That is not a verdict on which model wins over a longer horizon - Lemonade's growth rate and product breadth are genuine advantages at scale - but it is the relevant distinction for anyone assessing near-term financial stability rather than long-term competitive position. The reinsurance picture heading into hurricane season. Kin's three reciprocal exchanges secured more than $1.9 billion in catastrophe reinsurance coverage at the June 1 renewal at a cost 25% below the prior year, outperforming the broader market's reported 15% to 20% reduction. Chief insurance and compliance officer Angel Conlin said the company's adjusted loss ratio held steady in the quarter, aided in part by a lighter industry-wide catastrophe season, generating $11 million in adjusted net income in June alone. For those tracking the insurtech competitive landscape in catastrophe-exposed states, Kin's profitable growth in Florida and Texas is the data point worth watching. Standard carriers have been pulling back from personal lines in both states while direct-to-consumer models with lower distribution cost structures continue to write new business. Whether that trend holds through a more active storm season - and whether the reciprocal exchange model's capital efficiency holds with it - is the forward-looking question these results raise without yet answering.

PR Newswire
Aug 13th, 2026
Kin's premium in force climbs 23% to $701M, carrier income tops $25M in Q2 2026

Kin, a direct-to-consumer home insurance and finance provider, reported continued growth in its second quarter 2026 results. Premium in Force climbed 23% year-over-year to $701 million, whilst Gross Written Premium reached $219 million, up 15%. The Chicago-based company saw total revenue grow 16% to $68 million. Combined adjusted net income across its two managed reciprocal exchanges exceeded $25 million during the quarter. Kin's auto insurance business gained traction, with Auto Gross Written Premium reaching $10 million in Q2. The company bound more policies in June than any month in its history, with all top-10 sales-volume days occurring in May and June. The insurer operates across 14 US states, representing 50% of the total addressable market for home insurance.

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Jul 30th, 2026
Kin launches two new coverage options for California homeowners.

Kin launches two new coverage options for California homeowners. Unlike other insurance companies that pulled back or pulled out of California after catastrophic wildfire losses, Kin is moving in the other direction, leaving more than 684,000 Californians relying on California's Fair Plan. The company expanded to help California homeowners get coverage in the weeks following the January 2025 wildfires, and now with condo insurance and flood insurance, Kin is deepening that commitment. "We started helping Californians find insurance before the wildfires in January 2025 and have never looked back," said Kin founder and CEO Sean Harper. "Kin's commitment has only grown since then. Offering flood and condo insurance options are two more ways Kin is helping homeowners protect their most valuable assets, in a market where it's hard to do so." Kin offers condo insurance options designed specifically for individuals who are often shut out of the road car insurance market, including new home buyers, properties in distressed or wildfire-prone areas, and unusual situations such as lapses in insurance, substandard electrical panels, or short-term rental operations like Airbnb and VRBO. Kin's review process does not evaluate all wildfire-impacted properties in the same way, but instead considers specific mitigation measures homeowners have taken, such as creating defensible space gaps and fire and waterproofing installations. Likewise, flood insurance remains an important but elusive asset for California residents, especially since overland flooding is excluded from standard home insurance policies. The California Department of Water Resources reports that more than 7 million people in the state live in areas at risk of severe flooding. However, only a quarter of people living in high-risk areas have insurance. Government flood maps classify residential properties into risk zones, meaning lenders are not required to purchase flood insurance for homes in Zone X or other low-risk designated areas, so most homeowners are uninsured. However, because these maps are based on historical data, they do not reflect conditions in California. In recent years, several properties marked as low risk have been flooded due to changing rainfall patterns. Kin's new insurance option helps qualifying California homeowners add flood coverage to their existing home insurance policy, a simpler path to protection than the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) without the need for a separate policy. The coverage is an endorsement of their existing home insurance policy and does not require a 30-day wait for it to take effect. For flood-related water damage, the endorsement applies the same dwelling and personal property limits as the base home policy, rather than the reduced sub-limits of many private flood add-ons. The National Flood Insurance Program caps building coverage nationwide at $250,000, regardless of the actual value of the home. Instead, Kin's endorsement is based on the homeowner's actual policy limits. Angel Conlin, chief insurance officer at Kin, commented: "Flooding is one of the most underinsured risks in California, and most homeowners don't realize it until it's too late. "Standard homeowners insurance doesn't cover flood damage, and most Californians don't have a separate policy. Kin helps homeowners find policies that accurately assess flood risk at the individual property level, and we can now offer private riders to make it easier for homeowners to close that gap." Spread the love