Rhino + Jetty is making housing more affordable and accessible for millions of renters each year. We’re the market-leading rental housing platform building simpler, more accessible ways for people to move into homes — and for property managers to lease with confidence.
Our technology removes friction from the move-in process, lowers upfront costs for renters, and helps property managers make faster, more accurate decisions. We support a network of 3 million rental units nationwide and work with 47 of the NMHC Top 100 property owners, including Greystar, Brookfield, Asset Living, UDR, and more.
We pioneered security deposit insurance and continue to push the industry forward with a growing suite of products — from deposit management to lease guarantees and loss-of-employment protection. We’re growing quickly, tackling real problems at scale, and building technology that’s changing how renting works.
In this role you will lead the following areas:
Sales Partnership & Growth Enablement
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Act as strategic partner to Sales and Revenue teams to enable profitable growth
- Provide data-driven guidance on trade-offs between growth, pricing, coverage limits, and risk
- Support key landlord partner conversations where underwriting judgment is required
Underwriting Strategy & Technical Underwriting Implementation
- Own and steward R+J’s underwriting strategy and risk appetite to ensure consistent and disciplined execution of the underwriting process across risk profiles
- Manage the in-house automated underwriting decision engine to ensure proper underwriting rules, risk score logics, coverage limits and deductibles levels are implemented as designed
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to ensure robust data pipelines, quality, and accessibility, enabling scalable and reliable underwriting infrastructure
- Collaborate with Risk & Compliance teams to ensure underwriting decisions are explainable, auditable, and aligned with regulatory and carrier requirements
Portfolio Management
- Evaluate underwriting outcomes and portfolio performance to optimize rules and user experience for sustainable growth and profitability targets
- Lead industry trends assessment and incorporate relevant insights into underwriting judgment, exception handling, and portfolio oversight
- Communicate underwriting performance, emerging risks, and mitigation strategies with credibility and transparency to internal and external stakeholders
We’re ideally seeking:
- 10+ years of professional underwriting or actuarial experience in the P&C insurance industry. Experience in insurtech or high-growth companies is highly preferred
- Strong actuarial background; actuarial credentials (ASA, ACAS, or equivalent) strongly preferred
- Proficiency in statistical software (e.g. SQL, Python) and data visualization and dashboarding tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI) to manage portfolio management and underwriting flows
- Strong organizational and leadership skills with experience managing projects and mentoring analysts
- Resourceful, innovative thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and enjoys solving strategic insurance business challenges
Compensation & Benefits:
Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $200,000
Rhino + Jetty has partnered with a number of compensation benchmarking tools to determine competitive and fair market pay bands for our size and stage. Our goal is to ensure each employee is paid equitably and competitively while also maintaining a consistent and standardized methodology.
Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors including qualifications for the role, experience level and balancing internal equity relative to other teammates.
Base salary is just one part of our Total Rewards Package here at R + J. In connection with this position, we also offer:
- Competitive cash compensation package including base salary, milestone based bonus, and other financial perks
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage (up to 90% employer contribution) - eligible from your start date
- 401(k), HSA, Life & Disability Insurance Coverage ($0 employee contribution for additional insurances)
- Unlimited PTO Policy
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- Stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in R + J's success
- Monthly lifestyle stipend to fit your needs (meals, wellness, co-working)
