Director, Actuary

How You’ll Do It

• Execute Company Strategy:
  • Ensure the consistent use of methods and assumptions across all lines of business as part of loss trends deep dives and regularly recurring work.
  • Guide team members in developing the loss trends storylines for Workers’ Compensation and other lines of business.
  • Manage regular reporting deliverables including competitor commentary and pure premium relativity.
  • Establish relationships and collaborate with cross-functional areas to better prioritize work within the team and support the development of insurance trends.
  • Collaborates with other actuaries and business units within Pie to ensure effective execution of actuarial data driven initiatives.
• Actuarial Analysis:
  • Responsible for high quality and reproducible predictive and descriptive tools for business use.
  • Closely reviews innovative models and recommends regulatory approach to innovation.
  • Makes sure business portfolio KPIs such as frequency and severity trends are proactively informed senior management.
  • Collects, aggregates, and analyzes data from multiple internal and external sources.
  • Writes and maintains code to build and maintain data pipelines for production models.
  • Uses and develops advanced actuarial techniques to discover patterns, insights, and trends in Pie data.
  • Produces sound rate level indications with advanced understanding of actuarial ratemaking methodology.
  • Works with Pie’s reinsurers and reinsurance broker to optimize Pie’s reinsurance program and creates reporting, including bordereau materials, for reinsurance partners.
  • Works with external partners like AM Best, auditors, and external consultants, as necessary.
  • Pairs with the Data team to identify and establish actuarial data requirements.
  • Provides regular status updates to Pie’s senior leadership.
  • Identifies issues and recommends mitigation strategies.
  • Ensures key stakeholders are identified and regularly informed of project status.
  • Leads in the development and documentation of actuarial department processes.
• Leadership:
  • Supports, mentors, and coaches as well as provides professional development for your team. Provides continuous feedback and opportunities for career development.
  • Works in partnership with the People Partner on performance improvement and coaching plans.
  • Identifies hiring needs and acts as the hiring manager for recruiting high quality analysts.
  • Works collaboratively with the People Partner throughout the team member lifecycle, including, but not limited to hiring, onboarding, performance management, team member relations, and offboarding.

The Right Stuff

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 10+ years of progressive insurance Actuarial experience required.
• Fellow of Casualty Actuarial Society.
• Experienced leader, with 6+ years of people leadership. Strong ability to motivate others to take initiative, as well as, establish psychological safety for team members to test, learn, and grow.
• Experience using SnowFlake, SQL, Python, and other programming languages is a plus.
• Master communicator: Ability to communicate up and down the organizational levels, strong executive presence. Expressing self effectively by where applicable, presenting their own, team, and cross functional perspectives and requests in a clear, direct and open manner. Foster open communication and dialogue by uncovering and resolving conflicts within the team and among cross functional groups, where applicable, in a constructive manner.
• Hightly Collaborative: Understands others by seeking and understanding multiple points of view and needs of multiple cross functional groups.
• Strategic Thinker & Problem Solver: Demonstrates the ability to translate business segment strategy into functional plans and guiding execution. Can consistently apply integrative thinking skills to solve underlying needs and find the best possible solution.
• Proactive Operator: Surfaces issues early. Manages stakeholder expectations directly. Anticipates rather than reacts.
• AI-Native: Actively uses AI tools to accelerate analysis, drafting, and team productivity. Comfortable making AI adoption a stated team expectation.
• Independent Judgment: Brings well-reasoned actuarial positions to senior leadership and defends them under scrutiny.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous PTO
• Future focused 401k match
• Generous parental and caregiver leave

Location Information

• Unless otherwise specified, this role is remote. Remote team members must live and work in the United States (territories excluded) and have access to reliable, high-speed internet.