Underwriter, Northeast - Coalition

About Coalition

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

About the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for driving profitable business from an assigned group of brokers and partnering closely with our Sales organization. You will underwrite and manage products across Coalition’s portfolio while serving as a trusted partner to brokers and customers. Along the way, you will help clients better understand how to protect their businesses, bringing together underwriting expertise, business acumen and a relationship-first approach.

This is a remote opportunity that can be based anywhere in the Northeast with a strong preference for NYC, Philadelphia, New Jersey, or Boston.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite new and renewal accounts within authority, while maintaining alignment to underwriting guidelines, risk appetite, and carrier requirements.
• Build and deepen relationships with cyber specialists and sophisticated P&C placing brokers, becoming a trusted underwriting partner in the market.
• Maintain disciplined underwriting files, documentation, and internal tool usage in line with Coalition’s workflows and governance standards.
• Participate directly in broker and client meetings, with responsibility for external presentation, account strategy, and underwriting rationale.
• Handle more nuanced coverage, structure, and wording discussions, escalating or partnering with CPU and other leaders as needed on non-standard issues.
• Partner with Coalition’s security team and other internal stakeholders to bring technical and portfolio insight into underwriting decisions and broker/client discussions.
• Contribute feedback on underwriting guidelines, tools, and process improvements that help Coalition scale high-quality production underwriting.
• Regular travel required for broker relationship management, client meetings, broker education, and market development activity.

Skills and Qualifications

• Typically 2+ years of underwriting experience, including meaningful exposure to cyber, technology E&O, and/or other complex specialty risks.
• Ability to analyze underwriting and pricing risks independently and make sound decisions within authority.
• Ability to use risk analysis and underwriting guidelines to explain decisions and rationale confidently to brokers and clients.
• Strong negotiation, communication, and relationship-management skills in a broker-distributed environment.
• Developing fluency in complex coverage structures, client-facing presentation, and wording-related conversations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $100,000 - $130,000 per year (dependent on location and experience)
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)
• Opportunity for advancement