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Nearmap is seeking a Regulatory Affairs Director to build and lead the company's insurance regulatory affairs function. This is a builder role with immediate impact, starting from a solid foundation where Nearmap data is already approved in more than fifty rate filings.
You will own Nearmap's regulatory strategy and serve as the named regulatory contact across the filing lifecycle. Key responsibilities include:
**Regulatory Strategy & Engagement:**
- Act as Nearmap's regulatory face, managing the complete filing lifecycle from pre-filing consultation through objection response and post-approval maintenance
- Own regulatory strategy decisions on where to register, what to file, and how to approach filings
- Partner with insurance carriers to jointly design regulatory approaches that suit their needs
- Lead objection response strategy, drawing analytical inputs from actuarial and data science teams
- Develop recommendations on advisory organization registration and maintain existing Arizona registration
- Partner with Legal on privilege, contractual, and compliance questions arising from filings and regulator engagement
**Filing Program Management:**
- Own Nearmap's rate filing approach end-to-end to support carrier filing programs: scoping, materials, submission coordination, tracking, objection response, and close
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to build and maintain a rate filing materials library, including model memos, validation summaries, and methodology documentation
- Maintain state-by-state command of filing requirements, permissible confidentiality treatment, and filer eligibility
- Manage version control and re-filing triggered by model updates, new attributes, validation findings, or regulator feedback
- Monitor regulatory filings across all states and maintain an up-to-date database of rating plans using aerially derived data
**Policy & Standards Development:**
- Track NAIC, NAMIC, and NCOIL activity on insurance AI and imagery, including the NAIC AI Systems Evaluation Tool
- Represent Nearmap's perspective in regulatory venues to help shape emerging rules
- Advise product and data science on filing implications before new attributes and scores ship, ensuring regulatory risk is designed out
- Equip Sales, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success with accurate positioning on filing history and state-specific applicability
- Build filing schedules, metrics, and playbooks for the insurance vertical
You will report into Insurance Product, working daily with data science, actuarial, Legal, and customer-facing teams. This role addresses a critical gap: Nearmap has strong regulatory foundations but lacks a single owner to coordinate strategy and execution as the regulatory landscape evolves.
**Requirements:**
- 8 to 12 years in property and casualty rate filings, regulatory affairs, or state product management, with emphasis on personal lines property
- Hands-on experience managing complete filing lifecycles and interacting directly with state insurance regulators (California experience is a significant advantage)
- Experience preparing regulator-ready materials: filing narratives, methodology summaries, actuarial exhibits, statistical plans, forms, and rate pages
- Bachelor's degree in insurance, actuarial science, public policy, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Deep knowledge of SERFF and multi-state prior-approval processes, including state-specific variations
- Ability to translate model documentation and validation output into language regulators will accept
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain technical methods to regulators without losing substance
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel deadlines outside your control
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Actuarial credentials such as ASA or ACAS, or relevant regulatory training or certification
- Prior regulator-side experience inside a department of insurance
- Experience with AI, predictive model, or catastrophe model filings, and familiarity with model governance frameworks
- Experience standing up or maintaining advisory or rating organization status
**Personal Attributes:**
- Comfortable being the first person in a function and writing the playbook while work is live
- Calm under deadlines set by others
- Commercially aware; understand that filing approval is a revenue event and delays have business impact
- Strong communicator in writing, conversation, and regulator calls
