[Hiring] Underwriting Program Leader @Nirvana Insurance

Role Description

Are you an underwriting leader with deep expertise in a profitable niche, and a clear view of the program you’d build if you had the capital, capacity, and right platform behind you? We’re opening this role to program leaders across lines of business who want to build and own a program of their choice on Nirvana’s platform. You bring the niche, the underwriting expertise and the relationships. We bring an AI-native platform, data science, engineering, capacity relationships, and the capital to launch and scale the program.

You’ll be accountable for the program’s P&L, top line and bottom line, and you’ll build it in close partnership with Nirvana’s leadership. We’re not looking to replicate a traditional program. Together, we’ll design one that uses our data, technology and AI-native operating model from day one, and you’ll grow your own team as the program scales. The role comes with meaningful financial upside tied to the program’s success.

• Bring a focused market thesis and develop it into the program’s strategy, risk appetite, underwriting guidelines and operating rhythm in partnership with senior leadership.
• Be the program’s lead line underwriter to get it off the ground, evaluating and pricing risks in your line and owning both new business and renewals.
• Own the brokerage relationships that drive the program’s growth: build the wholesale and retail distribution network, set production goals and be the face of the program in the market.
• Work closely with senior leadership, engineering, product and data science to shape the platform, underwriting workflows and operating procedures.
• Own the relationship with reinsurers and capacity partners, and be accountable to them for portfolio performance, reporting and renewals.
• Build and lead the program team (underwriting, distribution and operations) as the program grows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of underwriting in a specialty or commercial line, with deep expertise in a defined niche.
• A track record of managing a large portfolio, ideally $50M+ in premium, profitably and at scale.
• A clear program thesis: the niche you’d target, why it’s profitable, why now, and how data and technology would give the program an edge.
• Proven underwriting discipline: experience writing underwriting guidelines and appetite.
• Experience owning distribution and building broker relationships that drive production.
• An entrepreneurial mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, using AI and technology to underwrite smarter and scale faster.
• Desire to build something new, challenging traditional underwriting practices.

Requirements

• Nice to have: experience launching a program or new segment, working directly with reinsurers or capacity partners, or leading an underwriting team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Work from home friendly.
• Comprehensive benefits including 100% employer paid healthcare plans, wellness reimbursement, work-from-home stipend and more.