Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Prudential Financial is a global financial services institution seeking a Director, Actuary – Group Advanced Analytics. This senior individual contributor will provide actuarial leadership for an AI-enabled disability claims assistant, including model design, validation, calibration, monitoring, and interpretation across LTD and STD claims. The role will translate claim-level insights into actionable business, financial, and operational outcomes while supporting model governance and claims management decisions.
Responsibilities
- Provide actuarial leadership for claims risk management model design, including claim outcome definition, target variable selection, segmentation, calibration, and validation across LTD and STD claim use cases
- Translate disability claims experience into actuarial measures and business metrics that can be used to evaluate model performance, claim outcomes, financial impact, and intervention effectiveness
- Partner with data science, claims, technology, finance, and vendor resources to ensure model insights are explainable, operationally relevant, and embedded into claims management workflows
- Support model governance, including validation standards, monitoring routines, performance thresholds, documentation, and ongoing assessment of model stability, bias, drift, and business usefulness
- Develop reporting and interpretation frameworks that connect model outputs to loss ratio trends, reserve implications, claim duration, return-to-work outcomes, transition risk, and other disability claim performance indicators
- Serve as a senior actuarial subject matter expert for model pilots and deployment, helping claims leaders understand model recommendations, expected value, limitations, and appropriate use in decision processes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field
- 7+ years of actuarial experience
- Associate or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries designation
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
- Experience analyzing LTD and/or STD disability claim experience and translating claim-level patterns into actionable business, financial, and operational insight
- Understanding of predictive modeling concepts, model validation, calibration, performance monitoring, and practical considerations for applying analytics in claim management workflows
- Ability to work across actuarial, claims, data science, technology, finance, and vendor teams to move from analysis to practical implementation
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex actuarial and model concepts, assumptions, limitations, and business implications to technical and non-technical audiences
- Preferably with meaningful exposure to group disability, claims analytics, pricing, valuation, reserving, or financial performance management
- Experience with AI/ML, predictive analytics, statistical modeling, claims risk scoring, intervention targeting, or model governance in an insurance or financial services environment
- Proficiency in tools such as Excel, SQL, R, Python, Power BI, or other analytical tools used for claim-level data analysis, model performance reporting, and business insight development
- Experience presenting model performance, financial impact, governance findings, and recommendations to claims, actuarial, finance, technology, or senior business leaders
Benefits
- Yearly bonus potential at every level.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
- 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
- Company-funded pension plan.
- Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
- Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
- Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).
- The current employee work arrangement for this position is hybrid or virtual and may require your on-site presence on a reoccurring basis as determined by your business, dependent on the candidate's location.
- We offer flexibility.
- Access to leadership and learning opportunities and the resources needed to take your career in any direction.
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