[Hiring] SVP, Chief Actuary @CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer

Role Description

The Senior Vice President, Chief Actuary is the enterprise leader for actuarial strategy, judgment, and execution across pricing, reserving, claims analytics, and pricing design. The role serves as an Appointed Actuary for the organization’s personal and commercial lines businesses and is accountable for providing an independent view of reserve adequacy, advancing rate adequacy and profitable growth, and translating emerging loss, competitive, regulatory, and market dynamics into clear enterprise action.

This executive leads the actuarial function supporting a multibillion-dollar personal lines portfolio across 23 states and the District of Columbia and a national commercial lines portfolio through Mobilitas. The role leads enterprise pricing and reserving governance, regularly engages the Board, CEO, and Executive Leadership Team, and partners closely with various departments.

Success requires a combination of deep actuarial expertise, commercial judgment, enterprise leadership, and the ability to communicate complex analysis in clear business terms. The Chief Actuary is expected to constructively challenge assumptions, make decisions under uncertainty, and build a modern actuarial organization that improves both financial outcomes and organizational decision-making.

Qualifications

• Mastery of core property and casualty actuarial disciplines, including pricing, reserving, claims analytics, trend analysis, forecasting, and catastrophe risk.
• Deep understanding of personal and commercial lines economics, competitive dynamics, financial drivers of profitability, capital considerations, and insurance regulation.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to balance actuarial precision, speed, customer and member value, market realities, and enterprise priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, challenge constructively, and make consequential decisions under compressed timelines.
• Executive presence and exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• Strong relationship, negotiation, influencing, and collaboration skills across functions and with external partners.
• Modern data, technology, and AI literacy.
• Proven change leadership and organizational design capability.
• High professional integrity, sound independent judgment, and commitment to actuarial standards and ethical practice.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, or a related quantitative field.
• Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS).
• Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), or otherwise eligible and qualified to issue the applicable Statements of Actuarial Opinion.
• Meets and maintains the U.S. Qualification Standards and all applicable NAIC and jurisdictional requirements for the Appointed Actuary role.
• At least 15 years of progressively responsible experience in the property and casualty insurance industry.
• Proven ability to lead others directly or indirectly, as demonstrated through 5+ years of leading teams.
• Extensive experience across personal and/or commercial lines pricing, reserving, financial forecasting, and portfolio management.
• Demonstrated success advising executive leadership and Boards on reserve adequacy, pricing, loss trends, financial outlook, and material business decisions.
• Proven experience leading large, high-performing teams and delivering financial and operational results.
• Demonstrated success modernizing actuarial capabilities through advanced analytics, automation, data, technology, or AI-enabled approaches.

Benefits

• Total compensation package, annual bonus eligibility for most roles.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Flexible workplace culture with remote work options.
• Commitment to inclusion and belonging.
• Focus on sustainability and community resilience.