Insurance Executive Roles — P&C, life, health, reinsurance, InsurTech
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role at carriers, brokers, reinsurers, and InsurTech platforms classified at the exec tier.
Tier breakdown
3
Founder19
C-Suite95
VP9
Sr Director76
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Insurance industry covers the full risk-transfer market: P&C carriers, life insurers, health insurers, reinsurance companies, MGAs and MGUs, large brokerages, and InsurTech platforms. The classifier treats InsurTech as a sub-tag of Insurance rather than a separate industry, since the executive-search dynamics are dominated by the underlying insurance business model.
Insurance has a distinctive exec-team composition. Risk & Compliance (Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer) is over-represented relative to other industries — the regulatory framework demands it. Finance seats are large because of capital-management and investment-portfolio scope. Tech transformation roles (CTO, VP IT) are growing as carriers rebuild legacy stacks.
Functions over-represented in Insurance: CFO/Finance, CRO/Risk, CCO/Compliance, and CIO/CTO. Director-tier in this industry includes Actuarial, Underwriting, Claims, and Compliance leaders — each running a meaningful sub-function with regulatory exposure.
Sample Jobs (10 of 202)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Head of Finance & Controlling (m/w/d) ottonova Lead finance and controlling teams, strategic development, and reporting at ottonova, a digital private health insurance company. VP | Munich, Germany Hybrid |
| Principal / Director, Product Origination & Distribution Strategy, Insurance KKR Responsible for leading product origination and distribution strategy within the insurance sector. VP | New York, NY Onsite |
| Vice President, Operations (Arkansas Total Care) Centene Oversee business operations, procurement opportunities, new product implementations, and complex initiatives for business development. Partner with stakeholders to establish strategic visions and ensure compliance with state contracts and regulations. VP | Arkansas Hybrid |
| Vice President, Value Delivery Promutuel The Vice President, Value Delivery at Promutuel is responsible for aligning business priorities with digital investments, managing IT functions, and leading digital transformation initiatives. VP | Québec City, QC Onsite |
| Head of Compute Corgi Insurance The role involves compute economics, solution design, diligence and risk, hardware lifecycle, and relationship management. The candidate should have extensive experience with GPU infrastructure, financial modeling, and team leadership. VP | Chicago, IL, US / San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US Unknown |
| Complex Claim Director, Employment Practices Liability AIG Responsible for handling complex Employment Practice Liability claims, making coverage determinations, investigating losses, and working with defense counsel. Director | NY-New York Onsite |
| Regional Head of BD & Partnerships Igloo Drive growth of Igloo’s embedded insurance business through strategic partnerships with digital platforms and consumer ecosystems. VP | Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore Onsite |
| President and CEO The Mutual Fire Insurance Company of British Columbia Lead The Mutual Fire Insurance Company of British Columbia through growth and transformation. Requires significant property and casualty insurance experience. C-Suite | Langley, BC Onsite |
| Broker Director AIG The Broker Director will manage assigned retail brokers, promote growth, and ensure alignment with broker agreements. Requires strong sales background and 10 years of experience in broker or carrier relationship management. Director | Houston, TX Onsite |
| Director, Global People Operations & AI Ethos Lead global people operations, automation, and AI strategy at Ethos, a life insurance technology company. Director | Remote US Remote |
How classification gets to this category
Insurance industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with insurance-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is identified via NAICS codes (524 for insurance carriers, 5242 for brokers and agencies), state-DOI licensure status, and a curated allowlist of carriers, reinsurers, MGAs, and large brokerages.
- Sub-sector tagging. The classifier separates P&C, life, health, reinsurance, and broker/MGA sub-sectors — surfaced as filter facets in the inbox UI. A "VP Underwriting" at a P&C carrier has different scope than the same title at a health insurer; sub-sector context is preserved through to the candidate.
- InsurTech cross-tagging. A digital-native carrier like Lemonade is tagged Insurance AND FinTech (and surfaces in both filter sets). A pure traditional insurer is tagged Insurance only. Editorial review catches "tech-enabled insurance" boundary cases. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier explicitly excludes from Insurance: pure benefits-administration platforms (these are Technology or HR-tech), warranty-and-extended-service-plan businesses, and title insurance classified under Real Estate.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Insurance is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Insurance + Risk & Compliance and your inbox shows CRO, CCO, and Director Compliance seats at carriers and reinsurers only — not every Insurance role regardless of function, and not every Risk role across the platform. You get the intersection. The CFO + Insurance pair is also high-signal for candidates targeting carrier finance roles.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only VP-tier and above Insurance roles — filtering out Director-tier for now — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to Director-tier for the actuarial, underwriting, and compliance feeder layer. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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