Head of Specialty Product & Underwriting
Hybrid (Chicago, IL)$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Head of Specialty Product & Underwriting leading Corgi's E&S book end-to-end, defining appetite, guidelines, product shape, pricing, risk management, and team. Build and scale underwriting function on a fast-moving team with direct collaboration with engineers and product.
Responsibilities
- Appetite and guidelines: Define what we write, where, and on what terms. Write and maintain underwriting guidelines, authority levels, and referral rules as the book grows.
- Product: Shape coverage across our E&S lines. Partner on policy forms, endorsements, and filings for our own paper.
- Rating and pricing: Work with software engineers and actuarial resources to build and refine rating logic, and ensure system outputs reflect sound underwriting.
- Risk and portfolio management: Track exposure, concentration, and aggregation; shape reinsurance and risk decisions as we scale.
- Book performance: Own loss ratio, mix, rate adequacy, and growth; monitor results and adjust appetite and pricing accordingly.
- Team: Hire and lead underwriters and set the underwriting standard at Corgi.
Qualifications
- 5+ years in commercial E&S and have owned a book and its results
- Experience setting appetite and writing underwriting guidelines
- Strong wholesale broker relationships
- Enjoy building on a small, fast-moving team
Skills
Required:Commercial E&S underwritingUnderwriting guidelinesRating and pricing
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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