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Senior Insurance Underwriting Specialist

$50 - $60 per hour

Mercor

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Insurance Experts
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50–$60/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Construct enterprise insurance scenarios for complex commercial underwriting, multi-stakeholder claims adjudication, and regulatory compliance review cycles at Fortune 500 carriers.
  • Build insurance tasks across F500 underwriting, risk assessment, claims management, actuarial pricing, reinsurance strategy, and regulatory affairs.
  • Develop scenarios using tools like Guidewire , Duck Creek , and actuarial modeling platforms ( SAS , R ) in F500 stacks.
  • Apply enterprise insurance methodologies such as actuarial risk modeling, loss reserving, and ERM frameworks to produce reference guidelines and risk narratives.
  • Author rubrics that distinguish authentic enterprise insurance judgment from generic textbook recall.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 5+ years in underwriting, claims, actuarial, or risk management at a Fortune 500 insurance carrier or reinsurer.
  • Direct ownership of F500-scale underwriting portfolios, claims operations, or actuarial pricing models.
  • Fluency in enterprise insurance tooling and methodologies, plus understanding of F500 regulatory compliance and reinsurance practices.

Preferred

  • Prior authorship of rubrics, actuarial/underwriting training curriculum, or claims documentation.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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