Sr Director, Corporate Underwriting

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Senior Director, Corporate Underwriting

Leads the corporate underwriting strategy and transformation function within Auto Lines. Owns the vision, design, and delivery of underwriting processes, governance, and innovation across the organization. This role reports to the Head of RAD, Pricing & State Product Management.

Responsibilities

• Plays a leadership role in designing and executing underwriting strategy, process design, governance, and innovation. Establishes a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Contributes to the long-term vision, direction, and operating model to support profitable growth, risk selection accuracy, customer experience, and efficiency.
• Owns the design, standardization, and continuous improvement of end-to-end underwriting processes, including new business, renewal, endorsements, and verification. Ensures consistency, scalability, and alignment across all channels.
• Champions the modernization of underwriting through automation, advanced analytics, and AI. Identifies, prioritizes and scales solutions that reduce manual processing, improve decision quality, and increase straight-through processing.
• Acts as the primary business owner for underwriting capabilities within personal lines platforms. Partners with Technology and AI teams to design and deliver rules engines, workflows, and decisioning systems that enable faster and more flexible product changes.
• Establishes and administers underwriting governance frameworks, including guidelines, rules, model usage, and controls. Ensures compliance with all regulatory, legal, and internal policy requirements.
• Partners with senior leaders across Product, Pricing, State Management, Operations and Technology to align priorities, resolve complex business challenges, and drive coordinated execution across a matrixed organization.
• Defines and monitors key performance indicators across underwriting effectiveness, including automation rates, efficiency, accuracy, cycle time, and business impact. Leads continuous improvement efforts using data, analytics, and experimentation.
• Prepares and manages strategic plans, roadmaps, and resource priorities for the underwriting function; ensures optimal allocation of resources to deliver business outcomes and transformation objectives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in P&C insurance with deep expertise in underwriting, product, pricing, or related functions
• Proven direct and indirect people leadership capabilities in complex, matrixed organizations
• Demonstrated success in driving large-scale transformation, automation, or platform modernization initiatives
• Strong knowledge of underwriting processes, risk selection, and regulatory requirements
• Experience working with or leading initiatives involving AI, predictive modeling, or advanced analytics
• Ability to think strategically and execute effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead through ambiguity and change
• Ability to convey complex information clearly, both verbally and in writing
• Strong influencing, communication, and stakeholder management skills at the executive level
• Bachelor’s degree

 

Annual Salary

$195,000.00 - $315,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

 

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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