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Underwriter - Fleet

Underwriter - Fleet

Nirvana InsuranceWashington, DC, US
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Underwriter, Fleet

Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

We've already proven the scalereaching well over $100 million in premiums and more than doubling year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 20 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.

With $170+ million raised, including an industry-leading Series C round in January 2025, we're only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana's leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the Role

As an Underwriter on the Fleet team at Nirvana, you will evaluate new and renewal commercial auto policies in the fleet space as we expand our portfolio. As you partner closely with our Business Development team, agents, and brokers, your strong collaboration skills and critical thinking will help you develop strong relationships and make sound underwriting decisions. You will be able to leverage your insurance acumen, while identifying creative solutions as we build our Underwriting processes in a start up environment.

What You'll Do

  • Evaluate and price new and renewal commercial Transportation business (10+ units) using underwriting best practices coupled with modern tools and insights
  • Work with multiple accounts simultaneously in a fast paced environment
  • Work closely with key agency partners to achieve production and profitability goals
  • Be a foundational driver of results
  • Collaborate with the Product and Engineering groups on emerging segments and territories as we scale

About You

  • 3+ years of property / casualty underwriting experience in the Transportation space.
  • Proven track record of growing and maintaining a book of profitable transportation business
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to present to both small and large groups of customers and brokers.
  • Open to occasional travel focused on building relationships with key agencies and customers (
  • Thorough critical thinker who isn't afraid to make decisions
  • Self-starter who independently seeks out opportunities to learn and succeed
  • Bias-to-action - you're not afraid to get your hands dirty and stretch yourself
  • Owner mentality - take accountability for your actions and results
  • Successfully able to work in high-growth and ambiguous start-up environments
  • Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity
  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Work from home friendly
  • #LI-Remote
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