Director of Actuarial Services - Pricing
Trupanion is a leading provider of medical insurance for cats and dogs in North America. Our mission is to help the pets we all love receive the veterinary care they need. At Trupanion, we offer a collaborative, casual, and pet-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves.
Position Summary:
The Actuarial Department at Trupanion is recruiting an actuarial professional with the ability to work well in a dynamic and complex regulatory environment. The position requires resourceful and creative actuarial capabilities, excellent communication, great leadership and interpersonal skills, and the ability to deliver high-quality and timely work products to both internal and external customers.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Manage, lead and develop the actuarial pricing team devoted to various pet insurance product offerings
- Create, implement and review new pricing strategies
- Think creatively and work with limited and emerging data
- Work directly with state regulators to manage rate and rule filings with timely completion
- Foster effective working relationships with key internal business partners across the organization
- Information expert with the ability to understand & translate data into meaningful communications
Qualifications (Please include a cover letter with your application!)
Education, Registration, Certification & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (finance, economics, math) or equivalent experience
- Minimum achievement of ACAS or ASA and MAAA
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of leading a team
- Pricing/Rate filing (required)
- Reserving (preferred)
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
- Demonstrated strong leadership
- Ability to plan, manage and execute projects
- Experience reviewing and managing rate filings and/or regulatory review process
- Ability to develop and apply actuarial models to diverse situations
- Resourcefulness, creativity, and resilience
- Skill at communicating rates and pricing efforts to diverse audiences across the business
- Ability to work with and lead actuaries from a variety of backgrounds, both P&C and/or Health
- Expertise in Excel (required) and experience in SQL (preferred)
- Highly driven and motivated to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Benefits and Perks:
- Bonus opportunities
- Full medical, dental and vision benefits at no cost to the employee
- Four weeks paid time off
- Five week sabbatical after five years of employment
- Restricted Stock Units
- Open, casual, pet-friendly and fun office environment
- Free dog walking services for office pets during business hours
- Free medical health insurance for your pet (1 dog or cat)
- Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
- Free on-site gym
About Trupanion:
We’re all about helping pets. We promote a cohesive and nimble team environment, and we hire, develop and promote team members. We trust each other. We are transparent and honest. We care about one another and want to see our team members succeed, personally and professionally. We strive to promote from within and reduce bureaucracy to allow creative thinking. We’re focused on providing continuous training and support to all team members to encourage long-term happiness and success.
Take a look inside our office and see for yourself:
https://www.facebook.com/Trupanion/videos/10155423763702974/
Trupanion Team DNA:
At Trupanion, we achieve great things together when we are:
- Caring: We are kind to each other and assume positive intent.
- Collaborative: We work together to achieve company goals (we not me).
- Courageous: We are determined, take risks, and make bold moves.
- Curious: We seek new information to continually better ourselves and our work.
- Honest: We believe candid communication leads to successful teamwork.
- Inclusive: We welcome and value all people and perspectives.
- Nimble: We readily adapt and evolve in pursuit of progress and innovation.
For more information about Trupanion, visit http://trupanion.com/about
Trupanion is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, and skills.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.