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Pricing Actuary roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under USCIS guidelines, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, or a related quantitative field. Insurance carriers, reinsurers, and consulting firms with active LCA filing history are your strongest sponsorship targets.
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Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We’re actively seeking a talented Director of Product and Pricing Risk to join the Workforce Benefits Product and Pricing organization.
We are actively seeking a talented Actuary & Director, Product Pricing Risk on our Workforce Benefits team. This role is on-site 4 days per week and work from home 1 day per week in Newport Beach, CA, Omaha, NE, or Charlotte, NC. If you are not currently located near one of our offices, we offer comprehensive relocation assistance.
Our new Workforce Benefits division seeks to disrupt the group benefits market with a digital first strategy. As a Director of Product and Pricing Risk, you will support disciplined product and pricing decisions across the Workforce Benefits portfolio by leading cross-product analytics, governance, risk monitoring, and pricing capability development. You will translate business priorities into practical pricing and risk frameworks, coordinate work across product lines, and provide recommendations and insights to Product and Pricing leaders. You will partner closely with pricing leadership, as well as colleagues in Underwriting, Finance, Sales, Enterprise Risk, Technology, and Operations. The role combines strong actuarial judgment, hands-on leadership, and the ability to drive execution through influence in a growing business. You will lead a small team and will work cross-functionally with division leadership and key partners to develop leading edge risk management and market winning pricing strategies.
How you will make an impact:
- Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of cross-product pricing and risk processes, tools, and reporting that support consistent execution across Workforce Benefits products.
- Partner with Product and Pricing leaders to analyze new business and renewal results, evaluate emerging trends, and recommend adjustments to pricing approaches, profitability targets, and portfolio guardrails.
- Coordinate the development and maintenance of pricing tools, models, and reporting capabilities used by Pricing and Underwriting, including quoting tools, experience-rating support, quote monitoring, and management reporting.
- Build and maintain portfolio analytics that connect growth, profitability, competitiveness, and risk. Translate results into clear insights, options, and recommendations for business leaders.
- Facilitate cross-product assumption setting and documentation for items such as expenses, interest rates, profitability metrics, and other shared pricing inputs, in partnership with Finance, Pricing, and Product leadership.
- Establish and maintain practical monitoring standards, key performance indicators, thresholds, and escalation routines. Identify deviations and coordinate appropriate analysis and follow-up with accountable product-line leaders.
- Prepare clear, decision-ready materials for product, pricing, and risk governance forums. Coordinate reviews and approvals and ensure decisions, assumptions, and follow-up actions are documented.
- Provide actuarial and risk expertise on cross-functional initiatives involving underwriting practices, reinsurance, vendor or external-party risk, and new or enhanced product capabilities.
- Lead the cadence and prioritization of experience studies and other data-driven analyses in partnership with product pricing actuaries, ensuring findings are translated into actionable recommendations.
- Support month-end and quarter-end financial and reserving activities, as assigned, through analysis of claims experience, reserve movements, and key financial risk drivers.
- Lead and develop actuarial professionals and rotational analysts by setting clear priorities, reviewing work, strengthening technical capabilities, and creating meaningful development opportunities.
- Manage multiple initiatives in an evolving environment, escalating material issues and strategic trade-offs to the appropriate AVP or VP leader. Support other projects as needed on a very nimble and collaborative team.
The experience you will bring:
- 8+ years of progressive actuarial experience with an FSA designation.
- Deep experience in group product lines (Dental, Vision, Group Life, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Supplemental Health, Leave and Absence Management).
- Experience managing multiple initiatives, working with ambiguity, and adapting to change.
- Experience developing or implementing pricing analyses, assumptions, monitoring frameworks, or governance processes. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to successfully influence across teams.
- Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Bachelor’s degree is preferred, or demonstrated experience.
What will make you stand out:
- Experience developing or implementing both new business and renewal pricing strategy.
- Experience developing and implementing assumptions, monitoring frameworks, or governance processes.
- Digital and analytic mindset.
- Entrepreneurial energy and excitement to operate in a start-up environment.
Base Pay Range:
The base pay range noted represents the company’s good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications and geographic location. Also, most employees are eligible for additional incentive pay.
$203,760.00 - $249,040.00
Your Benefits Start Day 1
Your wellbeing is important to Pacific Life, and we’re committed to providing you with flexible benefits that you can tailor to meet your needs. Whether you are focusing on your physical, financial, emotional, or social wellbeing, we’ve got you covered.
- Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents.
- Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off.
- Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program.
- Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation.
You Can Be Who You Are
We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
What’s life like at Pacific Life? Visit Instagram.com/lifeatpacificlife
EEO Statement:
Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at Pacific Life Insurance Company.
Job Description:
Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We’re actively seeking a talented Director of Product and Pricing Risk to join the Workforce Benefits Product and Pricing organization.
We are actively seeking a talented Actuary & Director, Product Pricing Risk on our Workforce Benefits team. This role is on-site 4 days per week and work from home 1 day per week in Newport Beach, CA, Omaha, NE, or Charlotte, NC. If you are not currently located near one of our offices, we offer comprehensive relocation assistance.
Our new Workforce Benefits division seeks to disrupt the group benefits market with a digital first strategy. As a Director of Product and Pricing Risk, you will support disciplined product and pricing decisions across the Workforce Benefits portfolio by leading cross-product analytics, governance, risk monitoring, and pricing capability development. You will translate business priorities into practical pricing and risk frameworks, coordinate work across product lines, and provide recommendations and insights to Product and Pricing leaders. You will partner closely with pricing leadership, as well as colleagues in Underwriting, Finance, Sales, Enterprise Risk, Technology, and Operations. The role combines strong actuarial judgment, hands-on leadership, and the ability to drive execution through influence in a growing business. You will lead a small team and will work cross-functionally with division leadership and key partners to develop leading edge risk management and market winning pricing strategies.
How you will make an impact:
- Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of cross-product pricing and risk processes, tools, and reporting that support consistent execution across Workforce Benefits products.
- Partner with Product and Pricing leaders to analyze new business and renewal results, evaluate emerging trends, and recommend adjustments to pricing approaches, profitability targets, and portfolio guardrails.
- Coordinate the development and maintenance of pricing tools, models, and reporting capabilities used by Pricing and Underwriting, including quoting tools, experience-rating support, quote monitoring, and management reporting.
- Build and maintain portfolio analytics that connect growth, profitability, competitiveness, and risk. Translate results into clear insights, options, and recommendations for business leaders.
- Facilitate cross-product assumption setting and documentation for items such as expenses, interest rates, profitability metrics, and other shared pricing inputs, in partnership with Finance, Pricing, and Product leadership.
- Establish and maintain practical monitoring standards, key performance indicators, thresholds, and escalation routines. Identify deviations and coordinate appropriate analysis and follow-up with accountable product-line leaders.
- Prepare clear, decision-ready materials for product, pricing, and risk governance forums. Coordinate reviews and approvals and ensure decisions, assumptions, and follow-up actions are documented.
- Provide actuarial and risk expertise on cross-functional initiatives involving underwriting practices, reinsurance, vendor or external-party risk, and new or enhanced product capabilities.
- Lead the cadence and prioritization of experience studies and other data-driven analyses in partnership with product pricing actuaries, ensuring findings are translated into actionable recommendations.
- Support month-end and quarter-end financial and reserving activities, as assigned, through analysis of claims experience, reserve movements, and key financial risk drivers.
- Lead and develop actuarial professionals and rotational analysts by setting clear priorities, reviewing work, strengthening technical capabilities, and creating meaningful development opportunities.
- Manage multiple initiatives in an evolving environment, escalating material issues and strategic trade-offs to the appropriate AVP or VP leader. Support other projects as needed on a very nimble and collaborative team.
The experience you will bring:
- 8+ years of progressive actuarial experience with an FSA designation.
- Deep experience in group product lines (Dental, Vision, Group Life, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Supplemental Health, Leave and Absence Management).
- Experience managing multiple initiatives, working with ambiguity, and adapting to change.
- Experience developing or implementing pricing analyses, assumptions, monitoring frameworks, or governance processes. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to successfully influence across teams.
- Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Bachelor’s degree is preferred, or demonstrated experience.
What will make you stand out:
- Experience developing or implementing both new business and renewal pricing strategy.
- Experience developing and implementing assumptions, monitoring frameworks, or governance processes.
- Digital and analytic mindset.
- Entrepreneurial energy and excitement to operate in a start-up environment.
Base Pay Range:
The base pay range noted represents the company’s good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications and geographic location. Also, most employees are eligible for additional incentive pay.
$203,760.00 - $249,040.00
Your Benefits Start Day 1
Your wellbeing is important to Pacific Life, and we’re committed to providing you with flexible benefits that you can tailor to meet your needs. Whether you are focusing on your physical, financial, emotional, or social wellbeing, we’ve got you covered.
- Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents.
- Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off.
- Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program.
- Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation.
You Can Be Who You Are
We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
What’s life like at Pacific Life? Visit Instagram.com/lifeatpacificlife
EEO Statement:
Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at Pacific Life Insurance Company.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Pricing Actuary
Earn fellowship credentials before filing
FCAS or FCIA fellowship signals specialty occupation status more clearly than a degree alone. Employers filing your H-1B petition benefit from documented professional credentials when USCIS reviews whether the role genuinely requires theoretical and practical application of actuarial science.
Search LCA filings by SOC code
Pricing Actuary roles file under SOC code 15-2011. Run that code through OFLC Wage Search to see which employers have certified LCAs for actuarial positions recently, giving you a verified list of active H-1B sponsors before you apply.
Target employers in H-1B-heavy sectors
Insurance carriers, large reinsurers, and actuarial consulting firms consistently sponsor H-1B workers for pricing roles. Use Migrate Mate to filter Pricing Actuary openings by employers with confirmed LCA filing history, so you're applying only where sponsorship is already established practice.
Clarify pricing specialization in your petition
H-1B petitions for actuaries sometimes draw RFEs when the job duties sound generic. Your employer's support letter should tie your pricing work specifically to loss modeling, rate filings, or reserving methodology to reinforce the specialty occupation requirement.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for the Level matching your experience. Check the OFLC Wage Search for the actuarial SOC code in your work location before signing an offer so you can flag any discrepancy before the LCA is filed.
Register for the lottery under the correct cap
If you hold a U.S. master's degree or higher in actuarial science or a related quantitative field, your employer can register you under the advanced degree exemption, giving you two selection chances during the USCIS H-1B lottery in March of each year.
H-1B Visa Pricing Actuary: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Pricing Actuary role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS recognizes actuarial positions as specialty occupations because the role typically requires at least a bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or a closely related quantitative field. Pricing work that involves loss modeling, rate development, or predictive analytics strengthens the specialty occupation argument further, especially if your employer documents the theoretical and practical application involved.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Pricing Actuary jobs?
Insurance carriers, reinsurance companies, and actuarial consulting firms are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for pricing roles. You can verify which employers have filed Labor Condition Applications for actuarial positions by checking OFLC disclosure data. Migrate Mate filters Pricing Actuary listings by employers with confirmed LCA filing history, so you can focus your search on companies already set up to sponsor.
How does fellowship status affect my H-1B petition as a pricing actuary?
Holding FCAS, FSA, or equivalent fellowship credentials strengthens your H-1B petition because it provides objective evidence that the position requires advanced, specialized knowledge. Employers citing your fellowship in the support letter make it harder for USCIS to characterize the role as a generalist position, which reduces the likelihood of a Request for Evidence on specialty occupation grounds.
What SOC code applies to Pricing Actuary roles and why does it matter?
Pricing Actuaries are classified under SOC code 15-2011 (Actuaries) for DOL purposes. Your employer uses this code when filing the LCA, which locks in the prevailing wage level for your position and location. Confirming the correct SOC code before the LCA is certified matters because an incorrect classification can result in a wage requirement mismatch or a USCIS denial.
Can I switch employers mid-H-1B as a Pricing Actuary?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you move to a new employer while your status remains valid, as long as your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition before your current authorization expires. Your new employer must file a fresh LCA for the pricing role at the new worksite, and you can start working for them as soon as USCIS receives the petition.