AVP, Underwriting Learning & Development (Admitted & Non-Admitted)

About the Role
We are seeking a visionary Learning & Development leader to design and execute a comprehensive underwriting learning strategy (admitted / non-admitted underwriting) that drives underwriter skill evolution, career progression, and organizational excellence. This role is a chance to shape how underwriters grow, progress, and thrive at every stage of their career. In it, you’ll create the strategy, build the programs, and partner with leaders across the business to ensure our underwriters have the skills, confidence, and judgment to deliver excellence for our members and brokers. You’ll have the opportunity to build from the ground up - designing a cohesive learning ecosystem that shapes underwriting talent at PURE. Your work will directly impact career growth, elevate technical and leadership capabilities, and strengthen the quality and consistency of our underwriting decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Set the strategic vision: Develop and implement a long-term learning strategy for the underwriting organization, ensuring programs support technical proficiency, leadership growth, and career pathways.

• Design the blueprint for growth: Define the skills and capabilities underwriters need - both technical and soft - and build a framework for development that spans the underwriting career journey.

• Create programs that matter: Build, source, and refine training experiences that close skill gaps, accelerate career progression, and elevate underwriting expertise.

• Partner for impact: Work closely with field underwriting leaders, underwriting and product excellence, and corporate learning & development, to identify capability gaps, align training with business priorities, and integrate quality standards into development journeys.

• Lead a small but mighty team: Manage a small but impactful team, ensuring cohesive program design, delivery, and continuous improvement to deliver impactful learning programs, and build and launch training tracks catered to various levels and roles across the underwriting organization.

• Measure and evolve: Monitor learning outcomes, leverage feedback and performance data, and adjust programs to maximize effectiveness and impact on underwriting performance and quality.

Who You Are

• Proven experience building and leading learning programs in underwriting, insurance, or financial services.

• 10-12 years of relevant experience required, ideally with time spent in an Underwriting or Product leadership role.

• Deep understanding of underwriting processes, technical skills, and career progression within underwriting organizations.

• Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans and measurable results.

• Exceptional collaboration skills and ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

• Experience managing a small, specialized team and scaling impact through partnerships and resources.

• Proficiency in modern instructional design, adult learning principles, and blended learning approaches.

What Success Looks Like

• Clear skill progression pathways established and adopted across underwriting roles.

• Training programs that close key knowledge gaps, improve quality, and support growth and retention.

• Strong partnerships with field leaders and underwriting and product excellence team members and alignment with corporate learning & development initiatives.

• A cohesive, strategic learning function that supports underwriting excellence and organizational goals.

The base salary for this role can range from $150,000 - $175,000, based on a full-time work schedule. An individual’s ultimate compensation will vary depending on job-related skills and experience, geographic location, alignment with market data, and equity among other team members with comparable experience.

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