Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- United States
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
About Accelerant
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers. Accelerant was founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts who shared a vision of rebuilding the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone. The Accelerant risk exchange does business across more than 20 different countries and 250 specialty products, and we are proud that our insurers have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit .
Accelerant Captive Solutions (ACS) is a specialty underwriting platform focused on complex middle market risks. We write business across three structures — Captive, Loss Sensitive, and Fronting — and are looking for an experienced senior underwriter to help grow our loss sensitive and captive book.
This is a senior underwriting role. The right candidate brings technical depth in loss sensitive structures, established broker relationships, and a track record of underwriting middle market commercial risks profitably.
Responsibilities
- Underwrite loss sensitive middle market and national account risks, including large deductible, SIR, and retrospective rating programs, with sound technical judgment on pricing, structure, and terms.
- Build and maintain broker relationships, serving as a consistent and reliable market for complex, loss-sensitive placements and captive structures in the middle market.
- Deliver multi-option solutions on eligible submissions — captive and loss sensitive — ensuring brokers have a complete picture of available structures for each account.
- Manage and grow an assigned book of business, maintaining underwriting discipline, monitoring portfolio quality, and achieving production targets.
- Build admitted and non-admitted insurance products including building a forms library and assisting in the implementation of a policy administration system.
Requirements
- Background: 5–12+ years of commercial lines underwriting experience at a top carrier, with a focus on middle market or national accounts. Hands-on technical expertise in loss sensitive structures — large deductible, SIR, and retrospective rating — is required. Captive experience is a plus.
- Approach: You are commercially minded and results-oriented — you know how to win business and build broker trust over time. You are rigorous on the technical side, confident pricing complex structures, and focused on building a profitable, growing book.
About the Company
Accelerant (NYSE: ARX)isais a data-driven risk exchangetransforming specialty insurance through data,advanced analytics,andAI driven insights.Our marketplace and proprietary technology platformempowerssmall-to-medium businesses to thrive by connecting specialty risk underwriters (typically MGAs, captive managers, retail brokers) with risk capital providers (Insurers, Reinsurers, Institutional Investors), creating more efficient and transparent ecosystem for specialty insurance with smarter products, data and AI.Startedin late 2018, over $4B of annual premiumwas transacted on the Accelerant Risk Exchangein the last 12 months ended Q3 2025.For more information, please visit .
- Role:
- Underwriter — Loss Sensitive & Captive Solutions
- Job Type:
- Full Time
Company profile

Accelerant
accelerant.aiAccelerant is a data-driven risk exchange that connects specialty insurance underwriters, typically MGAs, captive managers and retail brokers, with risk capital providers such as insurers, reinsurers and institutional investors. Through the Accelerant Risk Exchange, it offers real-time data, underwriting and referral tools, and performance metrics like GWP and loss ratio, aiming to make specialty insurance more efficient and transparent for small-to-medium businesses. Jeff Radke and Chris Lee-Smith launched the business in Europe in 2018, it expanded to the US in 2020, and it is listed on the NYSE under the ticker ARX.
- Founded
- 2018
- Funding Stage
- Public
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