Underwriter

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking experienced Individual Life Underwriters to join a rapidly growing insurance client in a permanent, full‑time remote opportunity. This role is ideal for underwriters with 4–15 years of traditional life and critical illness underwriting experience with meaningful signing authority (typically $1M–$1.5M+), offering exposure beyond capped or affinity-market models. In this role, underwriters will independently assess and underwrite traditional individual life and CI policies, making full, uncapped underwriting decisions on higher-value and higher-complexity cases. Successful candidates bring strong critical‑thinking skills, the confidence to exercise signing authority and challenge assumptions, and the ability to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders in a fast‑paced underwriting environment.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite traditional individual life insurance (non-affinity / non-group)
• Full underwriting decisions, not capped at lower mortality thresholds
• Underwrite Critical Illness (CI) policies
• Review and assess higher-value, higher-complexity files
• Exercise signing authority independently within assigned limits

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves):

• 4–15+ years of underwriting experience (individual insurance)
• Experience underwriting traditional individual life insurance
• Not affinity or strictly group market only

Nice-To-Have / Plusses:

• Experience across multiple carriers or reinsurers, such as:
• Sun Life, Manulife, Empire Life, Co-operators, Canada Life, Desjardins, Aviva
• Reinsurers like RGA, Swiss Re, Munich Re, PartnerRe, Gen Re, Optimum Re, etc.

Pay: $80,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

Work Location: Remote