Senior Underwriter, Design Professional

Job Description

AXA XL offers risk transfer and risk management solutions to businesses around the world. We combine global underwriting expertise, broad risk capacity, dedicated loss prevention services, and a collaborative approach to help our clients navigate complex risks and achieve their business objectives.

For more than 50 years, AXA XL Design Professional has been a leading insurance provider to the architectural and engineering design industry. Through specialized underwriting expertise, industry-leading claims support, and innovative risk management programs, we help our clients address evolving professional liability exposures and build resilience for the future.

As a Senior Underwriter within the Design Professional West Region, you will play a key role in driving profitable growth and underwriting excellence across the portfolio. Working closely with the Underwriting Manager, Functional Line Underwriters, brokers, and regional business partners, you will underwrite and manage complex professional liability risks, identify growth opportunities, and support business objectives related to profitability, retention, and service delivery. Success in this role requires robust technical underwriting expertise, sound judgment, relationship management skills, and a commitment to delivering exceptional client and broker experiences.

What you’ll be doing 

What will your essential responsibilities include? 

• Underwriting both new and renewal business within assigned territory. Assisting in achieving profitable premium and rate goals, working with actuarial and claims and successfully delivering results consistent with financial plan.
• Developing, maintaining, and servicing broker relationships within the distribution model. Coordinate with brokers to determine their marketing and education needs supported by AXAXL Design Professional Platform.
• Working with the Underwriting Manager within the assigned zone in furthering the AXAXL Design Professional Platform and achieving business’ financial plan.
• Interacting directly with insureds, brokers and producers to service accounts.
• Working collaboratively in a team environment, assisting underwriters, underwriting assistants, and management team. Training newer staff members, acting as a mentor.
• Developing technical knowledge of design professional risk management to act as a resource on our product including ability to deliver educational programs, contract reviews, assist with policy coverage evaluations.
• Ensuring high quality service standards and compliance with all internal audit guidelines.
• Acting as a representative of the company and our agents by attending internal/external company functions, agent sponsored and industry events.
• Meet with brokers and set annual targets, issue monthly status reports, monitor P&L against plan.
• Take initiative and proactively support brokers and market interactions which support growth. Some examples include coordinating insured events, inclusion of claims, LPED, marketing, conducting regional broker meetings, targeting interaction(s) with ACEC, AIA.
• Meet with customers and prospects to develop relationships, deliver risk management education and to support business targets.

You will report to West Zone Underwriting Manager.

What you will BRING 

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills: 

Required Skills and Abilities: 

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Moderate commercial insurance experience (e.g., underwriting, claims, or insurance risk management or insurance related business development experience).
• Robust analytical, risk assessment, and relationship management skills, with the ability to evaluate complex exposures and make sound underwriting decisions
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain outstanding insured and broker contacts.
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Desired Skills and Abilities: 

• Professional insurance designations, advanced degrees, or industry-related credentials are preferred, including but not limited to: RPLU, CPCU, CRIS, IIA, LLB, JD, BSc, or BEng.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Excellent customer service focus is a must.
• Collaborative team player who provides creative solutions and ideas for resolution.

Who WE are

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com.

What we OFFER

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.   At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at Inclusion & Diversity at AXA XL | AXA XL. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides enterprising compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars:

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action:  We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see Sustainability at AXA XL.

Applicants for this role must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future. 

The U.S. base salary range for this position is USD $107,600 - $209,100.   

Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues’ pay.  

At AXA XL, we know how important physical, mental, and financial health are to our employees, which is why we are proud to offer benefits such as an enterprising retirement savings plan, health and wellness programs, and many other benefits. We also believe in fostering our colleagues' development and offer a wide range of learning opportunities for colleagues to hone their professional skills and to position themselves for the next step of their careers. For more details about AXA XL’s benefits offerings, please visit US Benefits at a Glance 2026.