Vice President - Underwriting

5 days ago

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

Although this job is listed in Connecticut, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $183.8k - $306.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📋 Underwriter

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Gravie

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Gravie is a company specializing in providing innovative health benefits and insurance solutions. Their offerings include the Comfort health plan, which simplifies health coverage with no deductibles and zero copays on common healthcare services. Gravie also provides Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA) and Gravie Pay, a support system for managing healthcare costs. The company emphasizes clear and straightforward benefits that facilitate preventive care and reduce unexpected healthcare expenses, catering to both individual members and small to midsize businesses. Gravie aims to make health benefits accessible, understandable, and cost-effective for employers and employees alike.

health insurance • health care • employer benefits • health • wellness

51 - 200 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Play a key leadership role in evolving and using Gravie’s proprietary underwriting engine to offer competitive pricing for a first-of-its-kind health plan to employers and their employees across the country. • Lead Underwriting transformation and strategy by driving the evolution of Gravie’s underwriting organization to enhance scalability, efficiency, and competitive pricing. • Drive process improvement and measurable impact by implementing data-driven process improvements that enhance underwriting accuracy, speed, and decision-making. • Own and manage the customer pricing for certain segments of new and renewal employer group cases on Gravie’s proprietary products. • Enhance operational rigor and governance by overseeing underwriting audits, risk reviews, and limits of authority development to ensure consistency, compliance, and operational discipline. • Review underwriting case preparation work from your team defined by guidelines and established authority limits. • Work closely with Sales Operations, Actuarial, Finance, Clinical, Pharmacy, and Analytics to achieve financial and business goals. • Optimize risk and underwriting efficiency by engaging with Gravie’s third party vendors and technology partners. • Support customer acquisition and retention by working closely with Sales and Account Management to develop competitive pricing strategies. • Champion innovation and continuous improvement within the underwriting function.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Insurance or other related majors. • 8+ years of progressive underwriting leadership experience, with a focus on transformation, scalability, and process optimization. • Deep expertise in group health underwriting, particularly level-funded arrangements and small-to-midsize employer groups (0-500 lives). • Proven track record of implementing underwriting process improvements that drive efficiency, accuracy, and measurable results. • Experience in leading and scaling underwriting operations at a high-growth or startup organization. • Strategic mindset with the ability to align underwriting strategies with broader business goals. • A risk optimization and portfolio management mindset • Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and influence stakeholders. • Demonstrated commitment to core Gravie competencies of being authentic, curious, creative, empathetic and results oriented • Masters degree or other related educational experience • Experience in the 0-150 sized employer space • Hands-on experience with underwriting technology, automation, and analytics-driven decision-making.

🏖️ Benefits

• Alternative medicine coverage • Flexible PTO • Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave • Paid holidays • 401k program • Cell phone reimbursement • Transportation perks • Education reimbursement • 1 week of paid paw-ternity leave