Manager, Life Underwriting

Location: Remote - United States. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Salary: $94,840.00–$155,800.00 base pay annually, with potential eligibility for incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global provides life insurance and related financial protection services, with a focus on well-being, ethical standards, and professional development.

What you will do

• Provide expert judgment on complex and escalated life underwriting cases, including facultative referrals and appeals.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters while setting priorities and maintaining service-level adherence, consistency, and quality.
• Use analytics dashboards to monitor mortality, placement, cycle time, and referral rates and implement targeted improvements.
• Pilot and validate underwriting technologies and vendor solutions, document business cases, and measure outcomes.
• Coach underwriters in analytical thinking, digital tools, customer-centric practices, and new workflows.
• Collaborate with field force, home office personnel, reinsurers, and vendors to resolve issues and communicate decisions.

Requirements

• Extensive life underwriting experience with authority to adjudicate complex, high-value cases.
• At least 5 years of life underwriting experience, including team leadership and complex case decision-making.
• Working knowledge of automated underwriting programs such as Random Holdouts and Post-Issue Audits, plus quality-control experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including collaboration with reinsurers and vendors.
• Ability to coach underwriters, support digital tool adoption, and make ethical, compliant decisions.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without employer visa sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience with advanced analytics and visualization tools for underwriting performance.
• Familiarity with Electronic Health Record data, GenAI-enabled tools, and behavioral economics in underwriting.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible support for professional and personal goals.
• Skill-building, leadership development, and philanthropic opportunities.
• Contemporary, supportive, inclusive benefits and resources for eligible full-time employees.
• Commitment to diversity, ethical standards, well-being, and reasonable workplace accommodations.