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ERGO NEXT is a technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance founded in 2016. The company has helped hundreds of thousands of small business customers across the United States obtain fast, customized, and affordable coverage. They are backed by industry leaders in insurance and tech.
The Director of Portfolio Management will be a strategic leader responsible for informing and aligning company-wide execution against ERGO NEXT's loss ratio goals. Operating under a joint accountability model, this role serves as the technical and diagnostic counterweight to Insurance Product Management (IPM), ensuring that growth initiatives are balanced against bottom-line profitability considerations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with the VP and Chief Actuary to develop a strategic profitability roadmap and align execution across Product, Claims, Sales Channels, and Actuarial Pricing
- Managing the portfolio dynamically with IPM to ensure growth plans and loss ratio trends are anticipated, modeled, and owned prospectively
- Developing a holistic organizational perspective on profitability drivers and proactively identifying bottlenecks to achieving profitability goals
- Leveraging actuarial profitability, underwriting quality, and portfolio management metrics to ground the strategic roadmap in data
- Proactively flagging concerns and co-leading escalation paths with VP Actuarial and VP IPM to resolve strategic or risk disagreements
- Building relationships with stakeholders and applying indirect influence to advance profitability roadmap objectives
- Communicating status, risks, and opportunities to both ERGO NEXT and ERGO corporate executive teams
Required qualifications include 12+ years of P&C insurance experience in underwriting management, state management, product management, or actuarial functions; top-to-bottom understanding of underwriting strategy; ability to drive initiatives to completion through indirect influence; financial literacy in P&C insurance metrics; understanding of insurance portfolio dynamics; and exceptional executive communication skills.
Desirable qualifications include bottom-line accountability experience for a P&C insurance portfolio (territory, line of business, or program); actuarial credentials (FCAS, ACAS) or underwriting credentials (CPCU); experience evaluating and optimizing automated underwriting systems; an AI-forward mindset; and demonstrated ability to build credibility across the organization.
