PEO Workers' Compensation Underwriter

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to be a foundational member of the Rippling PEO team. As a Workers’ Compensation Underwriter for Rippling PEO, you will be responsible for supporting our workers’ compensation benefit offering. You will work closely with our workers’ comp carrier, insurance broker partner, and internal teams to review, assess and ensure accurate pricing of workers’ compensation risk; you will also interface with internal teams and clients as required to best meet our commitments to our customers. It’s a highly cross-functional role with a direct impact on Rippling’s operational and financial performance.

What you will do

• Conduct comprehensive Workers’ Compensation risk management processes, including exposure analysis, risk selection, classification and pricing to ensure alignment with guidelines and profitability objectives.
• Act as a strategic advisor to internal and external stakeholders - including sales, finance, brokers, and carriers by providing underwriting insights and guidance on risk and pricing decisions.
• Develop and continuously improve departmental processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Guide and mentor new hires, leveraging subject matter expertise to support team goals and enhance onboarding effectiveness.
• Evaluate prospective customer workers’ compensation applications, inclusive of overall risk assessment, assignment of accurate class codes, and communication with the Sales team and prospective clients to gather information when required.
• Audit our workers’ compensation book of business to ensure risk has been accurately assessed and classified.
• Liaise with our workers’ compensation insurance broker-partner / carrier during the underwriting process and throughout the client life cycle to deliver exemplary client service.
• Work cross-functionally to drive improvements in our risk assessment, underwriting and quoting process that lead to efficiency gains and improved risk management inside of Rippling’s product.
• Support internal teams as a Rippling PEO workers’ compensation subject matter expert.

What you will need

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Mastery of time management, balancing competing priorities, and executing to tight timelines
• You have an eye for process improvement; you like to dig into the details to surface learnings that enable us to better meet our commitments to our clients and partners
• Excel proficiency and keen problem solving skills
• Passion for fast-paced, tech-centric organizations
• Collaborative and cross-functional mindset with a great sense of humor
• Not required but preferred: Minimum 3 years experience in workers’ compensation underwriting experience, classification coding and a strong understanding of how underwriting and pricing processes work within a dynamic workers’ compensation program (significant bonus points if you’ve done this at a PEO)

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.