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Senior Underwriter, Risk Underwriting

Justworks, Inc.
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Mar 2024
💰 $119,900/yr($109,000/yr$119,900/yr)

About the role

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, Diversity + Inclusion and wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. 

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

Who You Are

As a Senior Underwriter, you are someone from a large casualty insurer or broker that has experience with underwriting workers' compensation and other Property & Casualty programs. As a Senior Underwriter, you will analyze and evaluate workers’ compensation insurance and other employment risks to write, retain, and grow a profitable book of business.  In addition, you are also someone that can quickly hit the ground running and enjoys being in a fast moving iterative environment with a strong culture. If you want to continue your career in a complex but rewarding environment this position is for you!

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

  • Apply sound, creative underwriting and business judgment in the timely analysis and evaluation of workers' comp insurance and employment risks
  • Exercise designated authority autonomously for complex business or industry risk profiles
  • Develop and maintain an effective working relationship with broker, program administrator, and carrier
  • Prepare and run group training sessions for the underwriting, sales, customer service teams and other internal stakeholders
  • Participate with management in company level strategic projects and/or special assignments
  • Research and report on changes in compliance or legislative  that may impact program structure and/or growth potential
  • Mentors and provide guidance and support to junior underwriters and assist with complex cases or escalated issues.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Underwriter, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:

  • Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
  • Ethical practice - the ability to integrate core values, integrity and accountability throughout all organizational and business practices.
  • Clear communication - the ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral, written, visual and non-verbal communication skills, as well as listening skills to gain understanding.
  • Analytical - uses a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem to arrive at an outcome.
  • Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

  • Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active

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