Senior Actuary - Annuity Pricing and Product Development

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Senior Actuary - Annuity Pricing and Product Development

Nationwide Financial is seeking a highly technical Senior Actuary to join our Annuity Pricing and Product Development team. This role is ideal for an experienced actuary who brings deep actuarial modeling expertise, strong annuity pricing experience, and the ability to influence product strategy through data-driven decision making.

This is a visible opportunity to support fixed and indexed annuity pricing, product development, and pricing model ownership in a role that combines hands-on actuarial work with business-facing partnership. The person in this role will help shape product competitiveness, evaluate risk and profitability tradeoffs, and support high-impact product decisions across the annuity business.

Position highlights

• Senior actuarial role supporting annuity pricing and product development
• High-impact work on fixed and indexed annuity pricing and actuarial model ownership
• Strong partnership with business leaders, pricing stakeholders, and risk partners
• Opportunity to influence product design, competitiveness, and strategic actuarial recommendations
• Ideal for candidates with AXIS, annuity pricing, fixed indexed annuity, and actuarial model development experience

What you will do

• Own and enhance the fixed indexed annuity pricing model used to support product development and pricing decisions
• Lead actuarial pricing analysis for new products, product features, and product changes
• Translate business partner needs and market opportunities into actuarial model updates and pricing recommendations
• Evaluate product competitiveness, profitability, assumptions, and risk tradeoffs across annuity products
• Support the full product development and pricing cycle from concept through internal governance and risk committee presentation
• Perform ad hoc product analysis to help the business respond quickly to market and pricing needs
• Present actuarial findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

What we are looking for (Required)

• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA)
• Strong actuarial experience in annuity pricing, product development, actuarial modeling, or related actuarial ownership work
• Deep AXIS modeling capability and the ability to work independently in a pricing model environment
• Prior experience owning, updating, or enhancing actuarial models used for pricing or product development
• Ability to assess risk, pricing implications, and business tradeoffs with strong actuarial judgment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively across business, actuarial, and leadership teams

Highly relevant experience (Preferred)

• Fixed indexed annuity experience
• Annuity pricing experience
• Product development experience
• Actuarial model development or model ownership experience
• Experience presenting to leadership or governance committees

Why this opportunity is compelling

This role offers the chance to step into a critical actuarial position with meaningful product influence. The team is looking for someone who can independently own key pricing work, support annuity product strategy, and bring strong technical depth to a highly visible business need.

This role can be staffed fully remote.

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Job Description Summary

Our Nationwide Financial Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you!

As a Senior Actuary, you’ll be an expert, providing leadership, direction and oversight for the creation and performance of sophisticated actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. You’ll handle research and direct others to ensure efficient, consistent and integrated data and analysis. We’ll count on you to provide a strategic vision for the team and deliver business recommendations that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers. You’ll work independently and may directly or indirectly lead others.