Lead and shape underwriting strategy for a designated commercial surety product line, managing profit and loss accountability while ensuring disciplined risk selection. This remote position offers the opportunity to work independently with strategic oversight, focusing on underwriting complex submissions, evaluating financial exposures, and optimizing pricing models to maintain portfolio strength.
Key Responsibilities
- Underwrite new and renewal accounts, applying financial, industry, and account-specific analysis to support sound decision-making
- Manage a book of business with full P&L responsibility, ensuring alignment with underwriting guidelines and authority thresholds
- Review and interpret data from diverse sources to identify profitable risk opportunities and improve underwriting outcomes
- Build and maintain relationships with agents, brokers, and reinsurers through proactive communication and collaboration
- Develop and implement marketing strategies to grow new business by engaging key industry partners
- Act as a technical resource for underwriting teams across the country, providing guidance on complex cases and territory-specific challenges
- Lead special projects and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the commercial surety function
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, insurance, or a related field
- Minimum of five years of relevant underwriting experience, preferably in surety or commercial lines
- Proven ability to analyze complex data and apply analytical frameworks to real-world underwriting problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting recommendations to leadership
- Self-directed work style with the ability to meet goals independently
- Strategic mindset with a focus on enhancing underwriting processes and long-term profitability
Work Environment
This is a remote position with a preferred location in Houston or Dallas, Texas. The role supports a national territory and offers flexibility within a structured underwriting framework. As part of an employee-owned organization, you’ll contribute to a culture that values integrity, innovation, and exceptional client service.
Company Overview
The organization maintains a strong financial foundation and a reputation for excellence in underwriting. Employees operate with ownership mentality, working collaboratively to deliver differentiated insurance solutions. Committed to ethical practices and smart risk management, the team focuses on achieving exceptional outcomes through unconventional approaches.
