VP, Catastrophe Risk R&D

Overview:

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a VP, Catastrophe Risk R&D. The VP, Catastrophe Risk R&D will lead and develop a specialized team to advance SageSure's approach to quantifying and managing catastrophe risk. This role focuses on refining risk models, supporting post-event response, and communicating SageSure’s risk insights and performance to key partners and stakeholders. 

What you’d be doing: 

• Manage and grow a skilled team of advanced-degree professionals dedicated to SageSure’s view of risk. 
• Evolve and refine SageSure’s approach to quantifying risk across all U.S. perils, including assessing catastrophe model vendor changes, evaluating SageSure loss experience relative to modeled estimates, developing exposure data coding and model adjustment methodologies, and managing SageSure’s catastrophe modeling vendor relationships. 
• Serve as a key contributor to SageSure’s post-event response activities, including providing expert input and vetted data to enable effective claim response, data science modeling, and loss estimation. 
• Quantify SageSure’s outperformance in catastrophe events relative to industry results and other benchmarks, develop compelling presentation materials to demonstrate SageSure’s outperformance and broader thought leadership to reinsurers and other external stakeholders, and engage personally with select reinsurers and carrier partners for deep dives on view of risk topics. 
• Develop novel insights and capabilities to advance SageSure’s differentiated underwriting and management of natural catastrophe risk, through analysis of catastrophe loss experience, sourcing of new data and software tools, and close collaboration with colleagues across multiple other functional areas. 

We’re looking for someone who has: 

• A relevant, advanced degree in engineering or science 
• At least 15 years of experience in insurance and catastrophe modeling 
• A track record of successfully leading and growing technical teams responsible for dynamic and varied portfolios of applied research focused on delivering actionable solutions. 
• Analytically strong and capable of leading complex technical work and formulating sound recommendations to SageSure leadership. 
• Highly resourceful, with a natural orientation to ensuring project scope clarity, developing pragmatic solutions, and delivering against deadlines 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a particular talent for finding creative and effective ways to distill and explain complex technical information 

Highly preferred candidates also have: 

• Strong skills with python, SQL, and other tools for analyzing and visualizing large amount of data 
• Direct experience in making view of risk recommendations, either operationally at an insurer or reinsurer or in an advisory capacity at a reinsurance broker 
• Hands-on experience developing and presenting custom view of risk perspectives and related thought leadership materials to reinsurers. 

About SageSure:

As a Best Places to Work in Insurance Recipient for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure, one of the largest residential property insurance managing general underwriter (MGU) in the United States, is pioneering ways people protect their American Dream.

A leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, SageSure was founded in 2009 to deliver reliable products, exceptional customer experiences, and strong underwriting results in challenging insurance markets. SageSure currently operates in 14 states and provides home, flood, and commercial coverage on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners.

We have more than 600 employees working remotely or hybrid in one of our eight offices—Jersey City, NJ; Mountain View, CA; Chicago, IL; Tallahassee, FL; Cincinnati, OH; Houston, TX; Mt. Laurel, NJ; and Cheshire, CT—who are tackling the industry’s toughest challenges.  

We provide generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement, wellness allowance, paid volunteer time off, a matching 401K plan, and more.

SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

Our nimble, highly responsive culture nurtures critical thinkers who run toward problems and engineer solutions. We relentlessly pursue better outcomes by investing in the technology, talent, and tools that position us to succeed in demanding markets. Come join our team! Visit sagesure.com/careers to find a position for you.