TN Visa Underwriting Specialist Jobs
Underwriting Specialist roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Economist category, which covers professionals who analyze financial risk and assess policy applications. Canadian citizens can apply at the border or port of entry with no cap. Mexican citizens require advance consular processing. A bachelor's degree in economics, finance, or a related field is required.
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As an elite Excess and Surplus Lines market, Nautilus Insurance Group offers commercial property and casualty insurance solutions to appointed wholesale surplus lines producers countrywide. We have specialized in providing these solutions for more than 35 years.
We have more flexible policy terms and premium rates on a non-admitted basis. Our focus is small to medium Property and Casualty risks on both an admitted and a non-admitted basis.
Our offerings are distributed through partnerships with appointed wholesale surplus lines producers. Our relationships are defined by mutual success, speed to market, customer-centric focus and an expanded appetite.
Coverage placed by Nautilus Insurance Group is provided by Nautilus Insurance Company and Great Divide Insurance Company, both W. R. Berkley Corporation members with A.M. Best (Superior) A+ XV ratings.
Benefit Highlights:
- Paid Parental Leave! At Nautilus, we offer Childbirth Recovery Leave as well as Primary Caregiver Leave, for up to a maximum of 12 weeks of paid leave.
- Nautilus offers Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage options, along with Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) choices.
- We help our employees feel secure by providing a 401(k) program, profit sharing, stock purchase plan, life insurance, and travel accident insurance options.
- One of our core values is “Committed to Serve” and these aren’t idle words. We provide every employee one paid day off per year to volunteer at a local charity. That’s serving with a smile!
- We take risk management excellence and your professional growth seriously by offering Tuition Assistance and Industry-Related Education and Exam programs.
- Can you hear us now? Employees are eligible for special cell phone service discounts with Verizon and AT&T. We’ve got a plum position for you! We participate in the Plum Benefits program offering employees cost-free access to thousands of exclusive travel and entertainment discounts.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- On site newly renovated fitness center - free to use for employees. Yoga and other classes available for a nominal fee.
Responsibilities
Nautilus Insurance is seeking a Senior Underwriting Auditor to join their team. This role can be located on a hybrid schedule in our Scottsdale, AZ office or remotely for a highly qualified candidate.
The Underwriting Excellence Team is responsible for driving underwriting quality, consistency, and operational excellence across the organization.
The role serves as a key resource for identifying emerging trends, monitoring agency and underwriting effectiveness, supporting regulatory and compliance expectations, and providing actionable insights that enhance decision making.
Key Functions/Duties of Position
- Conduct comprehensive reviews of new business, renewals, and quotes to evaluate risk quality and file handling from underwriting, pricing, and policy construction perspectives, ensuring adherence to established underwriting procedures and authorities.
- Mitigate potential future losses by escalating substandard risks requiring immediate action and identifying trends and opportunities for improvement among agents and underwriters.
- Summarize results, analyze trends, and communicate findings.
- Provide monthly reviews and quarterly territory reports, offering insights into agency results, trends, book performance, and supporting business development opportunities within partner management.
- Facilitate KPMG, SOX, and internal corporate compliance audits.
- Offer recommendations to influence underwriting appetite, guidelines, and execution across all lines of business.
- Identify training needs for underwriting staff and agents based on results, work with Underwriting Training Coordinators to develop appropriate training programs and objectives.
- Represent the department in departmental meetings as requested.
- Maintain professional relationships with internal departments, external agents, vendors, and customers.
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned.
- Analyze underwriting data, quality metrics, loss trends, and operational performance indicators to identify emerging risks, underwriting opportunities, and areas requiring corrective action.
- Partner with underwriting leadership to support strategic initiatives that improve underwriting consistency, portfolio quality, profitability, and customer outcomes.
- Assist in the development, maintenance, and enhancement of underwriting standards, audit methodologies, scorecards, procedures, and governance frameworks.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of underwriting controls, workflows, and business processes, recommending enhancements to improve efficiency, accuracy, and risk selection.
- Conduct targeted reviews and special studies to address emerging underwriting concerns, profitability challenges, catastrophe exposures, or strategic business objectives.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and resource for underwriting staff regarding underwriting guidelines, authority interpretation, policy construction, and best practices.
- Participate in calibration exercises to promote consistency in underwriting reviews, scoring methodologies, and quality standards across the organization.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 5 (5) years of commercial insurance experience.
- Candidates must possess strong technical underwriting knowledge, analytical skills, and the ability to evaluate complex risks across multiple lines of business.
- Excess & Surplus (E&S) underwriting experience is strongly preferred.
Additional Company Details: The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. We do not accept any unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies or firms. The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.
INTRODUCTION
As an elite Excess and Surplus Lines market, Nautilus Insurance Group offers commercial property and casualty insurance solutions to appointed wholesale surplus lines producers countrywide. We have specialized in providing these solutions for more than 35 years.
We have more flexible policy terms and premium rates on a non-admitted basis. Our focus is small to medium Property and Casualty risks on both an admitted and a non-admitted basis.
Our offerings are distributed through partnerships with appointed wholesale surplus lines producers. Our relationships are defined by mutual success, speed to market, customer-centric focus and an expanded appetite.
Coverage placed by Nautilus Insurance Group is provided by Nautilus Insurance Company and Great Divide Insurance Company, both W. R. Berkley Corporation members with A.M. Best (Superior) A+ XV ratings.
Benefit Highlights:
- Paid Parental Leave! At Nautilus, we offer Childbirth Recovery Leave as well as Primary Caregiver Leave, for up to a maximum of 12 weeks of paid leave.
- Nautilus offers Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage options, along with Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) choices.
- We help our employees feel secure by providing a 401(k) program, profit sharing, stock purchase plan, life insurance, and travel accident insurance options.
- One of our core values is “Committed to Serve” and these aren’t idle words. We provide every employee one paid day off per year to volunteer at a local charity. That’s serving with a smile!
- We take risk management excellence and your professional growth seriously by offering Tuition Assistance and Industry-Related Education and Exam programs.
- Can you hear us now? Employees are eligible for special cell phone service discounts with Verizon and AT&T. We’ve got a plum position for you! We participate in the Plum Benefits program offering employees cost-free access to thousands of exclusive travel and entertainment discounts.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- On site newly renovated fitness center - free to use for employees. Yoga and other classes available for a nominal fee.
Responsibilities
Nautilus Insurance is seeking a Senior Underwriting Auditor to join their team. This role can be located on a hybrid schedule in our Scottsdale, AZ office or remotely for a highly qualified candidate.
The Underwriting Excellence Team is responsible for driving underwriting quality, consistency, and operational excellence across the organization.
The role serves as a key resource for identifying emerging trends, monitoring agency and underwriting effectiveness, supporting regulatory and compliance expectations, and providing actionable insights that enhance decision making.
Key Functions/Duties of Position
- Conduct comprehensive reviews of new business, renewals, and quotes to evaluate risk quality and file handling from underwriting, pricing, and policy construction perspectives, ensuring adherence to established underwriting procedures and authorities.
- Mitigate potential future losses by escalating substandard risks requiring immediate action and identifying trends and opportunities for improvement among agents and underwriters.
- Summarize results, analyze trends, and communicate findings.
- Provide monthly reviews and quarterly territory reports, offering insights into agency results, trends, book performance, and supporting business development opportunities within partner management.
- Facilitate KPMG, SOX, and internal corporate compliance audits.
- Offer recommendations to influence underwriting appetite, guidelines, and execution across all lines of business.
- Identify training needs for underwriting staff and agents based on results, work with Underwriting Training Coordinators to develop appropriate training programs and objectives.
- Represent the department in departmental meetings as requested.
- Maintain professional relationships with internal departments, external agents, vendors, and customers.
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned.
- Analyze underwriting data, quality metrics, loss trends, and operational performance indicators to identify emerging risks, underwriting opportunities, and areas requiring corrective action.
- Partner with underwriting leadership to support strategic initiatives that improve underwriting consistency, portfolio quality, profitability, and customer outcomes.
- Assist in the development, maintenance, and enhancement of underwriting standards, audit methodologies, scorecards, procedures, and governance frameworks.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of underwriting controls, workflows, and business processes, recommending enhancements to improve efficiency, accuracy, and risk selection.
- Conduct targeted reviews and special studies to address emerging underwriting concerns, profitability challenges, catastrophe exposures, or strategic business objectives.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and resource for underwriting staff regarding underwriting guidelines, authority interpretation, policy construction, and best practices.
- Participate in calibration exercises to promote consistency in underwriting reviews, scoring methodologies, and quality standards across the organization.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 5 (5) years of commercial insurance experience.
- Candidates must possess strong technical underwriting knowledge, analytical skills, and the ability to evaluate complex risks across multiple lines of business.
- Excess & Surplus (E&S) underwriting experience is strongly preferred.
Additional Company Details: The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. We do not accept any unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies or firms. The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as an Underwriting Specialist
Align your credentials to TN categories
Underwriting Specialist roles must qualify under a USMCA-listed occupation, typically Economist or Accountant. Confirm your degree field maps directly to the role's risk analysis functions before applying, since a mismatch in job duties is a common TN visa denial trigger.
Target insurers with established TN pipelines
Focus on carriers and reinsurers that regularly hire cross-border professionals, particularly those in commercial lines, specialty risk, or actuarial-adjacent underwriting. These employers already understand TN documentation requirements and won't need education on the sponsorship process.
Request a TN-specific offer letter
Your offer letter must describe your role in terms that match the USMCA occupational category, not just your job title. Ask the employer to detail your analytical and risk assessment duties explicitly, since CBP officers assess the letter, not your resume.
Search TN-sponsored underwriting roles on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Underwriting Specialist roles by employers with recent visa filings. This cuts down time spent on roles where TN eligibility is unclear or the employer lacks experience sponsoring work visas for skilled professionals.
Prepare for Canadian border processing differences
Canadian citizens can apply for TN status directly at a land border or preclearance airport. Bring your offer letter, degree transcripts, and credential evaluation if your degree is from a non-Canadian institution. CBP adjudicates on the spot, so documentation gaps cause immediate refusals.
Understand the Mexican consular appointment timeline
Mexican citizens must apply at a U.S. consulate, which adds weeks to the process. Build this into your start date negotiation with the employer. USCIS also allows Mexican TN applicants to file by mail, which can be faster than waiting for a consular appointment slot.
Underwriting Specialist TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Underwriting Specialist role qualify for a TN visa?
Yes, but the qualification depends on how the role is classified. Underwriting Specialist positions typically qualify under the USMCA's Economist or Accountant category, since the work involves financial risk analysis and policy assessment. Your job duties in the offer letter must reflect that analytical function. A title alone does not determine eligibility.
How does the TN visa compare to H-1B for Underwriting Specialist roles?
The TN visa has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, making it far more predictable than the H-1B visa. Canadian applicants can be approved at the border the same day they apply. The trade-off is that TN status is employer-specific and does not lead directly to a green card, while H-1B allows dual intent.
Where can I find Underwriting Specialist jobs that offer TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Canadian and Mexican professionals searching for roles with TN visa sponsorship. You can filter by occupation, including underwriting and financial risk roles, and see which employers have a history of sponsoring cross-border professionals. This avoids wasting applications on employers unfamiliar with TN requirements.
What documents does my employer need to provide for my TN application?
Your employer must provide a detailed offer letter that states your job title, duties, required qualifications, intended length of employment, and that the role is a professional position under USMCA. For Underwriting Specialist roles, the letter should emphasize analytical and risk assessment responsibilities to align with the Economist or Accountant category that CBP will evaluate.
Can Mexican citizens apply for a TN visa as an Underwriting Specialist at the border?
No. Unlike Canadian citizens, Mexican citizens cannot apply for TN status at a U.S. land border or port of entry. Mexican nationals must apply through a U.S. consulate abroad or file a petition with USCIS from inside the United States. Consular appointment availability varies and should factor into your offer negotiation timeline.