Life Insurance Underwriter

At MassMutual, we're transforming the future of life insurance underwriting through innovation, technology, and an unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and advisors. As a Senior Life Underwriter, you will play a critical role in evaluating complex life insurance risks, making sound mortality and financial assessments, and partnering with distribution and account management teams to deliver first-offer, best-offer outcomes. This is an opportunity to leverage your expertise while influencing underwriting strategy, supporting field partners, and helping families secure their financial futures.

You'll work alongside experienced underwriting professionals, contribute to key strategic initiatives, mentor emerging talent, and help shape the evolution of underwriting through digital transformation and advanced decision-making tools. If you are a customer-focused underwriting leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about balancing risk management with an outstanding customer experience, we invite you to bring your talents to MassMutual and help us continue our mission of helping people protect the ones they love.

The team here at MassMutual is composed of experienced underwriters supporting our MassMutual Financial Advisors (MMFA) and MassMutual Strategic Distributor (MMSD) channels. These organizations provide a variety of customer, advisor, and risk management services. Evaluate and handle all underwriting aspects of formal & informal life insurance applications

Determine whether to accept, modify, or decline a risk through evaluation of an individual's medical history or physical condition, occupational hazard, and financial background.

Provide efficient, quality service to third party firms, their staff and their advisors.

Communicate effectively with customers to explain underwriting decisions and facilitate placement of business.

Understand underwriting policies, guidelines, practices, and procedures.

Tailor communication style to fit a variety of target audiences, i.e. agency and new business personnel. Provide consultations with third party firms to resolve rate-related questions and discrepancies or risk-related concerns.

High school diploma or GED.

• 5+ years life insurance underwriting experience.
• $5+ million life insurance underwriting authority.

10+ million dollar life insurance underwriting authority.

• Expert knowledge of all aspects of risk selection (medical, non-medical, financial).
• Mastery of key underwriting concepts, best practices, and procedures including identifying exposures to loss, material hazards, and implementation of necessary risk management controls.
• Strong knowledge of UW administrative systems, product rules, Underwriting Guidelines and medical factors impacting mortality and the keen ability to position with agents, brokers, and sales partners.
• Experience underwriting both term and permanent life insurance.
• Agency, brokerage distribution, banks or wire house underwriting experience.
• Demonstrated track record of working with minimal supervision, being a self-starter, and working with others in a team environment.
• Ability to think critically, problem solve using data to drive toward resolution.
• Positive, inclusive, agile, and collaborative mindset.
• Clear areas of ownership and accountability, with work that connects directly to company and customer outcomes

Access to learning, development, and internal networks that support continuous growth and skill-building over time

Employee-led communities and forums that foster connection, learning, and inclusion across the organization

MassMutual offers the opportunity to do meaningful work within a purpose-driven organization that values long-term impact over short-term outcomes. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance