Vouch

Underwriting Analyst

Vouch

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About Vouch:

Insurance... sounds slow, old-fashioned, and unexciting. Exactly. Insurance is broken, and it's failing fast-moving, innovative startups.

Vouch is a new, technology-first insurance company backed with $160M in funding from world-class investors. Like Stripe for payments or Brex for credit cards, Vouch is creating the go-to business insurance for high-growth companies.

We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our customers -high growth and innovative companies. Instead of printed PDF applications and week-long waits, Vouch is building new technology to solve real problems, writing policies that actually cover relevant startup scenarios, and designing simple experiences in an otherwise frustrating industry.

What does a work environment look like at Vouch?

Vouch has a 3-HQ model: Office-Based, Office-Linked, and Remote-First. This role is Remote-First, which means that team members can work from anywhere in the U.S. so long as they can work during Vouch core collaboration hours (9 am-3 pm PT Mon-Fri). Folks also have the option of commuting to one of our main offices (SF or Chicago) whenever they prefer.

The Job:

Vouch is seeking a creative, motivated, and innovative underwriting analyst to expand our analytical capabilities and drive unique insights from insurance datasets. Your primary responsibility will be assisting our underwriting leadership to develop data-driven underwriting practices and objective risk assessment capabilities.

You will play an integral role in developing analytical processes that support Vouch's mission of crafting the best insurance for those building the future. A highly qualified candidate can work with multiple sources of seemingly disjoint data and a set of broad goals Vouch wants to achieve, and can take the initiative to extract insights and make actionable recommendations for our Underwriting leadership.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Apply statistical inference to insurance data to draw insights about claims, underwriting appetite, underwriting operations and emerging risk trends
  • Establish and deliver best practices related to analytical methodologies and dashboards, in collaboration with analysts across Vouch teams
  • Create unorthodox analytical techniques to enhance underwriting efficiency
  • Qualitative and quantitative research on competitor insurance innovations, risk trends, litigation trends and applicability to Vouch's underwriting
  • Peer review dashboards and analyses created by other analysts across disciplines
  • Support the user acceptance testing of underwriting software built by our engineering team
  • Provide analytics capabilities to compliance and risk management committees to identify and mitigate company risks

About you:

  • 2+ years in an analytical capacity as an actuary, data analyst, financial analyst, underwriting assistant/analyst, or similar role
  • Strong data querying ability in SQL
  • Strong programming and data analytics experience in R or Python
  • Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office products
  • Understanding of commercial insurance products and the willingness to rapidly learn about new insurance developments
  • Exceptional communication skills, with an emphasis on real-time interaction, either written or verbal
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and prioritize high impact work

Nice to have:

  • Exposure to and passion for early-stage startups and/or high growth environments
  • Prior experience in P&C insurance
  • Demonstrated interest in commercial insurance products especially Professional Liability, Cyber, Property, and General Liability
  • Exposure to data science methodologies, especially GLMs, decision trees, and machine learning

Vouch provides a number of benefits to help you bring your best self to work:

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible vacation time (Unlimited PTO)
  • Wellness allowance ($80/month)
  • Technology allowance ($100/month)
  • Monthly Doordash credits ($80/month)
  • Vouch believes in putting our people first, and building a diverse team is at the front of everything that we do. We welcome people from different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ranges of abilities. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate the diversity of our growing team.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to recruiting@vouch.us



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Company name: Vouch
Remote job title: Underwriting Analyst

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