Associate Product Counsel

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the role

We are looking for an Associate Underwriting Product Counsel to join our Underwriting team as we find new ways to help our clients solve cyber risk.  In this role, you will utilize your legal and insurance coverage skills to help drive the creation of innovative cyber insurance products.  Working with the Underwriting, Claims, and Business Development teams, you will analyze underwriting concerns, learn from claims experience, and listen to business development opportunities, all in order to draft clear and concise policy language, coverage enhancements and manuscript wordings.  The ideal candidate will have an expert grasp of cyber and technology insurance policy wording, a cyber insurance coverage or litigation background, and experience drafting cyber insurance or other specialty lines policy wording.  

This is a fully remote position that can be based anywhere in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of new cyber policy contract wording in conjunction with carrier partners
• Support underwriting objectives by identifying market trends, conducting competitive product analysis, and drafting product language recommendations
• Create endorsement reference Wikis in conjunction with Underwriting leadership outlining our current cyber insurance contract wordings and usage rules
• Assist product refreshes by managing our form and endorsement library
• Work closely with individual cyber underwriters and utilize your legal writing skills to draft manuscript endorsements for individual accounts
• Conduct research into developing cybersecurity and data privacy issues in order to assist our underwriting team’s evaluative process 
• Work with Claims and Underwriting to evaluate legal actions against our insureds, the possible coverage implications, and potential take-aways for our underwriters  
• Provide coverage education efforts for brokers and internal colleagues
• Work closely with our Engineering team in order to deploy new or revised policy forms and endorsements 
• Support the marketing team by writing articles for publication on our blog and other media, and assist in drafting marketing materials for new product offerings

Skills and Qualifications

• JD (Juris Doctor) and 4+ years of insurance coverage experience  
• Strong grasp of cyber and technology insurance coverage wordings, including necessary safeguards and competitor wordings
• A self-starter that can work …