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Lead Actuary owning pricing, portfolio monitoring, and models for Kinetic’s technology-driven workers’ compensation platform. Presenting analytics to underwriters and carrier partners.
Responsibilities:
- Lead pricing analysis for new and renewal business, including exposure rating, loss development, and rate adequacy reviews
- Conduct and document actuarial indications and translate findings into pricing recommendations for underwriting leadership
- Partner with Data Scientists on pricing model outputs, Tableau dashboard views, target market research, and impact analyses
- Benchmark rates against industry data and flag emerging trends to leadership
- Own quarterly portfolio monitoring, including analysis and presentation of loss ratio, claim frequency, and severity trends by segment
- Lead carrier-facing reporting deliverables, including carrier slides and bordereaux
- Identify deteriorating segments early and surface them with analysis and recommended action
- Write and maintain SQL queries in Athena for data pulls, QA, and ad hoc analyses
- Build and document actuarial models in Excel and/or Python
- Collaborate with the data team on gold-table structures and proactively flag data-quality issues
- Own express-quote and renewal-tiering models: maintain, refresh, and validate against loss outcomes
- Build new GLM/GBM models as scoped
- Validate models against holdout data before production
- Produce quarterly predicted-versus-actual monitoring and flag model drift
- Maintain complete model documentation for auditability and handoff
Requirements:
- ACAS (Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society) required, or near-credential with the final exams in progress; FCAS welcome
- Active exam and/or continuing-education progress expected
- 5–10 years of actuarial experience in P&C insurance
- Workers’ compensation or commercial lines experience strongly preferred
- Prior experience in an MGA, insurtech, or specialty carrier environment a plus
- Proven ability to present actuarial findings to underwriting, finance, or carrier partners
- SQL proficiency required; comfortable writing/modifying production-quality queries in Athena or similar
- Strong Excel and actuarial modeling skills
- Familiarity with GLM/GBM model development and validation, including holdout testing and drift monitoring, a strong plus
- Python or R experience preferred
- Comfort with ambiguous, evolving data environments
- High-ownership mentality; able to hold a deliverable end-to-end
- Clear communication skills for translating actuarial findings for non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment where processes are still being built
- Must reside within the United States with existing authorization to work in the United States
- Must complete in-person verification of government-issued identity and employment eligibility prior to employment
Benefits:
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Domestic travel for company offsites and team alignment
- Identity and background verification process
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