Head of Underwriting Platform Development

About the role

The Head of Underwriting Platform Development serves as the underwriting business lead for supporting the design, buildout, and implementation of Hamilton Select’s digital underwriting platform. The role will also lead digital distribution, ensuring scalable, data-driven, broker-centric workflows that improve underwriter productivity, risk selection, and multi-channel distribution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the underwriting subject matter expert and primary business owner for Hamilton Select’s underwriting platform, partnering with Underwriting, Operations and Technology on architecture, product prioritization, and delivery.
• Translate underwriting, operations and distribution business needs into platform capabilities and digital solutions.
• Define and continuously refine underwriting workflows, rules, and data requirements across the business recognizing any planning for necessary differences in requirements between brokerage and binding authority business across all aspects of functionality and development.
• Represent platform and digital distribution capabilities in senior leadership forums, steering committees, board-level reporting, and external partner discussions.
• Partner with Underwriting Management, Distribution and Technology to execute Hamilton Select’s Digital Distribution strategy, including prioritization of key brokers, portals, and exchange connectivity.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in insurance, with significant exposure to underwriting operations, underwriting technology, or insurance platform product management.
• Experience in a leadership role managing cross-functional teams delivering technology platforms or digital products in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in P&C, specialty, or commercial insurance underwriting processes, systems, and workflows.
• Proven track record designing and scaling digital distribution capabilities, including agent/broker portals, API integrations, or direct digital channels.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.

Qualifications

• Required: Extensive experience in insurance, with significant exposure to underwriting operations, underwriting technology, or insurance platform product management.
• Required: Experience in a leadership role managing cross-functional teams delivering technology platforms or digital products in a complex enterprise environment.
• Required: Demonstrated expertise in P&C, specialty, or commercial insurance underwriting processes, systems, and workflows.
• Required: Proven track record designing and scaling digital distribution capabilities, including agent/broker portals, API integrations, or direct digital channels.
• Required: Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.

Skills

• Strategic, enterprise-level vision with the ability to translate business priorities into scalable platform outcomes.
• High degree of ownership, autonomy, and organizational discipline, with the ability to anticipate needs and drive priorities forward.
• Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and disciplined problem-solving orientation.
• Collaborative leadership style with proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional teams.
• Results-driven, forward-looking mindset with a focus on execution, continuous improvement, and sustainable growth.

Benefits

We offer a vibrant, entrepreneurial, and collaborative culture guided by our values: Be Smart, Be Sensible, Be Open and Be More. We know if we welcome and respect differences, we’ll attract and retain talent that brings a valuable diversity of perspectives and experience. We want all our colleagues to feel that they can bring their whole selves to work at Hamilton and know that they can be part of building a great company.

Pay

Competitive salary with an annual performance-based target bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, to include:

• Matching 401K plan
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability
• Gym subsidy
• My day (additional days leave for personal interests/wellness/charity work)

Schedule

Hybrid working position ideally based in the greater New York/New Jersey area or Richmond, VA. We will consider a remote US location for appropriately qualified candidates.