--- title: 'Lead Actuary at Kinetic' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-actuary-kinetic-remote-qvpgt7fvzwws' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Lead Actuary at Kinetic - **Company:** Kinetic - **Location:** Remote - **Compensation:** $145k–$180k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/kinetic/am9icG9zdDrySDFp98UlBvlRvZB2oCZl ## Job description ## About Kinetic We’re transforming workers’ comp with technology-driven solutions for injury prediction, prevention, and management—helping employers create safer, healthier workplaces. We also work directly with enterprise clients. Our platform is built for labor intensive industries including parcel delivery, manufacturing, and wholesale/warehousing operations. From wearable tech that reduces strain and sprain injuries by over 60% to a tech-driven program that speeds up return-to-work and generative AI for claims management, we're redefining what workers' comp can do. We’re a remote-first team headquartered in New York City, growing fast—10x in the past two years—and driven by accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration. If you're excited to build a career with impact, we’d love to meet you. Kinetic has been named to: Business Insurance's Best Place to Work in Insurance 2025. ## The Role You will own pricing analysis, portfolio monitoring, and indications work within Kinetic’s Actuarial & Analytics team. This is a high-visibility role on a small, fast-moving team where your analysis goes directly into carrier conversations and underwriting decisions. We are looking for a credentialed actuary (ACAS required) who can operate independently, bring actuarial rigor to a data-rich environment, and help build the analytical infrastructure as Kinetic scales. This role has also absorbed model ownership previously held by our Quantitative Modeler contract, which was eliminated in 2026. You'll take on end-to-end ownership of Kinetic's express-quote and renewal-tiering models — not just consuming model output, but validating, refreshing, and documenting them — alongside the pricing and portfolio work below. A note on reserving: as an MGA, reserving currently sits with our carrier partners, so this role focuses on pricing-side analytics and portfolio monitoring which includes emergence and development patterns from a pricing perspective. This role may take on reserving responsibilities in the future if we move forward with capacity alternatives. ## What You'll Do Pricing Analysis - Lead pricing analysis for new and renewal business: exposure rating, loss development, and rate adequacy reviews. - Conduct and document actuarial indications; translate findings into actionable pricing recommendations for underwriting leadership. - Partner with the Data Scientists on pricing model outputs, Tableau dashboard views, target market research, impact analyses, etc. - Benchmark rates against industry data and flag emerging trends to leadership. Portfolio Monitoring - Own quarterly portfolio monitoring end-to-end: pull, analyze, and present loss ratio, claim frequency, and severity trends by segment. - Lead carrier-facing reporting deliverables, including Carrier slides and bordereaux. - Identify deteriorating segments early and surface them with analysis and recommended action. Data & Tooling - Write and maintain SQL queries in Athena for data pulls, QA, and ad hoc analyses. - Build and document actuarial models in Excel and/or Python. - Collaborate with the data team on gold-table structures; flag data-quality issues proactively. Model Stewardship - Own the express-quote and renewal-tiering models: maintain, refresh, and validate against loss outcomes; build new GLM/GBM models as scoped. Validate models against holdout data before production; produce quarterly predicted-vs-actual monitoring and flag drift. Maintain complete model documentation so any model can be audited or handed off without your direct involvement ## What We're Looking For Credentials - ACAS (Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society) required, or near-credential with the final exams in progress; FCAS welcome. - Active exam and/or continuing-education progress expected. ## Experience - 5–10 years of actuarial experience in P&C insurance. - Workers’ compensation or commercial lines experience strongly preferred. - Prior experience in an MGA, insurtech, or specialty carrier environment a plus. - Proven ability to present actuarial findings to underwriting, finance, or carrier partners. Technical Skills - SQL proficiency required; comfortable writing/modifying production-quality queries in Athena or similar. - Strong Excel and actuarial modeling skills. - Familiarity with GLM/GBM model development and validation (holdout testing, drift monitoring) a strong plus, given this role's ownership of Kinetic's pricing models. - Python or R experience preferred. - Comfort with ambiguous, evolving data environments. ## How You Work High-ownership mentality; able to hold a deliverable end-to-end. - Clear communicator who can translate actuarial findings for non-technical stakeholders. - Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment where processes are still being built. Note Candidates must reside within the US with existing authorization to work in the United States. This role requires domestic travel for company offsites and team alignment. Verification of government-issued identity and employment eligibility will be conducted in person prior to employment. Security Notice: Kinetic is committed to a secure hiring process. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive identity and background verification process. We will never ask for financial information or payment during the application process. ## About Kinetic ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kinetic is a tech-first Managing General Agent (MGA) that combines AI-driven technology, data analytics, and proactive safety services to reduce workplace injuries and improve the workers' compensation experience for mid-market and large employers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Haytham Elhawary (Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Insurance (Workers' Compensation) / Insurtech - **Target Customers**: B2B; mid-market and large employers in safety-critical industries (parcel delivery, logistics, manufacturing, warehousing), and the insurance brokers who serve them. - **Mission**: To create the best workers' compensation experience. ## Products & Services - **Kinetic Safety Platform**: A tech-driven injury reduction platform combining wearable technology, data analytics, and proactive safety services. It helps employers reduce workplace injuries by up to 60%. - **Kai (AI Engine)**: Kinetic's proprietary AI engine that eliminates submission portals for brokers. Kai reads ACORD forms and loss runs directly from email submissions, extracts structured data, and flags documentation gaps, creating a "buttery smooth" submission experience. This won "Insurance Placement Technology Innovation of the Year" at the 2026 US Insurance Awards. - **Workers' Compensation Insurance**: Kinetic operates as a Managing General Agent (MGA) backed by Nationwide, offering specialized workers' comp coverage for safety-critical industries. - **Claims Management**: AI-driven tools and expert human support that help policyholders take action from injury reporting through claim closure, improving outcomes and controlling costs. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metrics**: - **Total Funding**: $26.07 million (across 4 known rounds: Seed (2014), Grant (2018), Seed (2018), Series A (2020)) - **Annual Revenue**: $2 million (estimated) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nationwide (backing insurer), and 5+ other investors in the Series A round. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount of 48 employees, with +20.4% year-over-year growth. - Distributed workforce across 5 countries (US, India, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia). - Recognized as a finalist/luminary in multiple industry awards in 2025 and 2026 (Business Insurance's Best Places to Work in Insurance, PC360 Insurance Luminaries Finalist, Business Insurance US Insurance Awards Finalist). - Won "Insurance Placement Technology Innovation of the Year" in 2026. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep Industry Specialization**: Focuses exclusively on safety-critical industries (parcel delivery, logistics, manufacturing, warehousing), allowing for highly tailored products and risk models. - **Proprietary AI (Kai)**: Eliminates the friction of traditional insurance submission portals by integrating directly into brokers' existing workflows (email), creating a significant moat in broker distribution. - **Tech-First MGA Model**: Combines the underwriting authority of an MGA with advanced data science and safety technology, offering a differentiated value proposition over traditional carriers. - **Proven Outcomes**: Claims ability to reduce workplace injuries by up to 60% provides a strong, data-backed ROI for clients. ## Strategic Focus - **Product-Led Growth**: Continuing to develop and deploy Kai to capture more broker mindshare and streamline the submission process. - **Vertical Expansion**: Deepening penetration in existing safety-critical verticals (logistics, manufacturing, warehousing, parcel delivery). - **Data & AI Leadership**: Investing further in data science and AI to improve underwriting accuracy, claims outcomes, and loss control services. - **Talent Acquisition**: Growing the distributed team, with a current open role for a People Operations Generalist and a Software Engineer, Data & AI, indicating a focus on scaling both the people function and the core tech platform. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: The company has a clear, impactful mission to reduce workplace injuries and improve the workers' comp experience, which is personally meaningful to the co-founder. - **Remote-First Culture**: Kinetic is a remote-first team with headquarters in New York City. Most employees work remotely across the U.S., offering flexibility. - **Strong Benefits**: Offers 20 paid vacation days, 9 federal holidays, unlimited sick time, and 12 weeks of supplemental parental leave. Also offers health insurance, 401(K), and job training/conferences. - **Ownership & Growth**: Offers stock options to all full-time employees, aligning everyone with the company's success. The culture emphasizes "get better every day" through bold experimentation and a growth mindset. - **Award-Winning Workplace**: Named to Business Insurance’s Best Places to Work in Insurance 2025, signaling a positive internal culture. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Offers diversity-based Employee Resource Groups. ## Sources 1. [kineticcomp.com](https://kineticcomp.com/careers) 2. [kineticcomp.com](https://kineticcomp.com/about) 3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/kinetic-comp) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/kinetic-1) 5. 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