Underwriter, Manufacturing & Automation Job at IronGrid in Santa Rosa

About IronGrid

IronGrid builds insurance policies for complex hardware. Founded by modeling engineers, we bring advanced data and risk modeling into insurance to improve coverage quality and accuracy for next-generation hardware.

The Role

We're looking for an Underwriter to help build and manage IronGrid's underwriting function as we launch our program. You'll bring a proven track record of managing a book of business and apply portfolio-level underwriting judgment to a new class of manufacturing and automation risks.

This role combines underwriting expertise with broker and distribution relationship management. You'll help shape coverage, support key product decisions, and work closely with founders and external partners. It's a strong fit for someone with deep distribution relationships and a desire to help build a modern MGA from the ground up.

You Will

• Underwrite and manage a portfolio of robotics & automation liability risks using IronGrid's internal models and underwriting framework.
• Develop and maintain strong broker and distribution relationships.
• Support product development, including coverage design, rating considerations, filings, and underwriting guidelines.
• Drive disciplined portfolio management: selection, pricing oversight, aggregation considerations, and pipeline forecasting.
• Collaborate closely with founders to refine underwriting strategy and improve tooling and workflows.
• Provide market feedback to inform distribution strategy, appetite revisions, and new product opportunities.

Who We're Looking For

• 5+ years of commercial underwriting/portfolio management experience.
• Strong wholesale broker relationships and exposure to manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Life-cycle experience across submission review, underwriting analysis, indications/quotes/binders, and marketing to brokers.
• Curious, pragmatic, and comfortable navigating ambiguity.
• Thrives in a fast-moving, early-stage environment where structure is still being built.
• Strong communicator with a partnership-oriented approach.
• Energized by the opportunity to modernize underwriting with better tools, data, and models.

Our Values

• Work hard. Be blunt. Move fast.

Interview Process

• Founder-led interview process over ~two weeks.

Compensation

• Base salary: $115,000 – $185,000, plus equity and performance bonus potential.