Director of Underwriting - Workers' Compensation

Director Of Underwriting - Workers' Compensation

Kinetic is on a mission to create a safer workplace and better life for the frontline workforce. Backed by Nationwide, we're transforming workers' comp with technology-driven solutions for injury prediction, prevention, and managementhelping employers create safer, healthier workplaces. We also work directly with enterprise clients.

Our platform is built for labor intensive industries including parcel delivery, manufacturing, and wholesale / warehousing operations. From wearable tech that reduces strain and sprain injuries by over 60% to a tech-driven program that speeds up return-to-work and generative AI for claims management, we're redefining what workers' comp can do.

We're a remote-first team headquartered in New York City, growing fast10x in the past two yearsand driven by accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration. If you're excited to build a career with impact, we'd love to meet you.

Kinetic has been named to : Business Insurance's Best Place to Work in Insurance 2025.

The Role

The Director of Underwriting will be responsible for leading, mentoring, and managing a team of five production underwriters. This role will focus on optimizing team performance, driving consistent results, and fostering the professional growth of our underwriting team. The Director will collaborate closely with the Chief Underwriting Officer to ensure strategic alignment while focusing on the execution of daily production goals, agency relationships, underwriting excellence, and the successful handling of large accounts (premium $250k+).

You will be regularly coaching and assessing the team on their ability to differentiate Kinetic in the marketplace with our value-added services. You will have to flex a combination of technical underwriting knowledge in combination with production underwriting selling.

This is a heavy ownership role, and requires the right leader to take the helm.

This role requires up to 25% travel throughout the US.

What You'll Do

• Lead and coach a team of 5 production underwriters, providing ongoing direction to enhance underwriting and sales production to achieve business objectives
• Manage & maintain general workload balance across the team
• Ability to analyze complex loss data and work with experience rating and loss rating; familiar with actuarial concepts and ability to work collaboratively
• Hiring and managing a team of UWs
• Constantly thinking about & sharing new ways to increase operational efficiency through technology and / or outsourcing administrative tasks
• Work closely with CUO to develop adaptive strategies that can be quickly adjusted in response to market shifts

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