Director, Program Business

Title
: Director, Program Business

Location
: Bedminster, NJ / Dallas, TX / Austin, TX

Reports To
: Chief Program & Underwriting Officer, Spinnaker

About Hippo:
Hippo Holdings consists of national property and casualty insurance companies—including Spinnaker Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, rated A- (VIII) by A.M. Best—along with an insurance agency and a managing general agent. Enabled by technology, Hippo brings products to market through a diversified range of offerings sourced from both owned and third-party programs, available on an admitted and surplus lines basis. We partner with innovative market leaders across personal, commercial, and specialty lines, as well as traditional and non-standard opportunities.

About You:
We are seeking a committed, experienced, and energetic individual to join our team. This is a collaborative leadership role accountable for program management and underwriting of a sub-portfolio of programs within Spinnaker. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, a change leader that challenges and continuously improves existing processes and procedures, as well as a subject matter expert in personal lines, commercial lines, program management and compliance.

What You'll Do:
A Director, Program Business, Spinnaker, you will act as "CEO" of a number of Spinnaker programs. You will have primary P&L responsibility for the book of business, and you will be responsible for setting program annual goals which will include strategies and tactics for profit, growth, expense management, and allocation of catastrophe capacity. A key strategic part of the role is relationship management, and you will act as the primary interface with each program, to include their Claims TPA, reinsurers and the brokers.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Represent your assigned programs as a member of the Spinnaker senior leadership team

• Accountable for ensuring your programs are in compliance with our contractual terms and follow all regulatory compliance requirements

• State filing review/signoff along with broader program-specific teams

• Quality and accuracy of the deal-specific business terms
• Responsibility for each program meeting strategic objectives as stated by the CEO and senior leadership team
• Oversight of onboarding checklist(s) for new programs assigned to you
• Oversight of renewal strategy in collaboration with Finance and Operations
• Collaborate with Finance and Operation to ensure monthly reinsurer reporting are done correctly
• Collaborate with Finance and Operation to ensure