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
Founder6
C-Suite72
VP14
Sr Director74
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 169)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Head of Sales, Insurance GenLogs Corporation Lead commercial strategy and sales execution for GenLogs' insurance sector, managing account executives and the entire sales lifecycle. VP | Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Washington, DC; New York, NY Unknown |
| Head of Financial Lines Technical Claims AIG Responsible for technical oversight of Financial Lines Claims in North America, driving claims technical excellence, and collaborating with senior leaders to manage strategic objectives and policies. VP | NY-New York Onsite |
| Strategy & Ops Senior Lead Lemonade Drive profitability and growth while leading strategic initiatives at Lemonade. Work as a "mini-COO" for product lines, collaborating on cross-functional projects. Sr Director | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Onsite |
| Director, Data Science Rollout AI Liberty Mutual Insurance Lead a data science team to develop AI evaluations for insurance pricing. Requires expertise in insurance pricing models, AI, and LLMs. Director | Remote or Hybrid Hybrid |
| Head of Investment Accounting ... Oliver James Lead investment finance function for a rapidly growing financial services and insurance carrier. Responsibilities include investment operations, portfolio scaling, system transformation, and governance. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of Specialty Product & Underwriting Corgi The role involves owning Corgi's E&S book, setting guidelines, shaping products, and working with engineers. It requires 6+ years of experience in commercial E&S. VP | Chicago, IL, US Onsite |
| Head of Lexington Middle Market Property AIG Lead the Midmarket Property platform, develop business strategies, manage risk, and drive underwriting best practices. VP | GA-Atlanta Onsite |
| Senior Director, Offline Marketing Ethos Life Lead offline marketing strategies and execution for Ethos Life, focusing on channels like TV, radio, and direct mail. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Director, Customer Experience & Scaled Success Hi Marley Responsible for overseeing customer experience and ensuring scaled success for clients. Director | Boston, MA Hybrid |
| Head of Partnerships Gyde The Head of Partnerships will own how Gyde partners with other organizations to drive inbound organic client leads and referrals, focusing on Medicare and small group employee benefits. VP | Austin, Texas, United States, New York City, New York, United States Hybrid |
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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