Coterie Insurance
is hiring
Business Analyst
About Our Company
Coterie Insurance operates in all 50 states and D.C. where it enables independent agents and brokers to write instant small business insurance.
Powered by data-backed underwriting, Coterie delivers accurate pricing and a submission-to-bind experience in less than one minute.
Combining best-in-class technology with a partnership-based approach, Coterie makes the buying and selling of small business insurance effortless.
Job Description & Responsibilities
Our HQ is in Blue Ash, Ohio (4455 Carver Woods Dr, Blue Ash, OH 45242), but we operate as a 100% digital business which makes it easy to work remotely as your role allows
Coterie is a business insurance startup that distributes flexible-term policies on our website and partner platforms. We value integrity, humility, passion, and intelligence. If you want to push yourself, promote social good, and re-shape a $200B+ market, we’re excited to talk to you.
What will the Business Analyst Do?
Coterie is an “insurtech” startup that harnesses data and API technology to bring speed, simplicity, and service to meet small business’ insurance needs like never before. This requires a heavy investment in our own tech stack with a large influence from insurance domain experts internally.
As a Business Analyst, you will assist in building technical and business requirements for the manufacturing, distribution, and service of insurance products. As part of this role, you will collaborate with Insurance Product, Growth, Operations, Project Managers and Engineering to ensure features and products are built with integrity, speed, and simplicity. You will also provide technical expertise to the insurance product team, growth, and operations on efficient ways to build products.
- Produce business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for features, bugs, and backlog items into system-specific documentation. This includes tables, workflows, diagrams and use cases.
- Review requirements to determine viability from a technical and business perspective.
- Evaluate existing business processes, identify inefficiencies or areas for improvement, and recommend solutions to streamline operations and enhance productivity.
- Collaborate with developers to determine functionality options, level of effort required for requested requirements.
- Lead system development lifecycles including gathering, documenting and analyzing requirement for complex multiplatform applications.
- Provide day to day support to existing applications and troubleshoot system application performance issues as they arise through our bug intake process.
- Responsible for sprint release notes, documentation, and stakeholder notification.
- Work with analysts on the insurance team and DNA to set up 30, 60, 90, 180-day evaluations to provide business impact reports for feedback and transparency to new releases.
Requirements
Superpowers we are looking for!
- You have B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent.
- You have a minimum of five years’ experience in Business Analyst roles supporting product owners.
- Able to comprehend, express, and document technical details into user stories.
- Ability to support multi-tiered applications, creating user stories and gathering requirements.
- You’re passionate about creating clear, concise documentation for product and engineering teams.
- Understanding and experience with Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodology.
- Working knowledge of JIRA, API, Postman, Azure
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience in Commercial Property & Casualty insurance highly desired.
Extras that are awesome but not required!
- Knowledge of commercial insurance product rating concepts
- Prior history working on insurance core systems and/or microservices architecture.
- Fluency in C# (.net core),JavaScript or other OO language.
- Experience building production C# .NET APIs (preferably .NET Core)
What we offer
What to expect!
Our hiring process generally consists of 3 phases.
- Phase 1: Qualified candidates will first meet with HR for a phone interview. This discussion is a high-level conversation to understand more about your background and interests and for us to share more about Coterie and the position.
- Phase 2: Selected candidates will then meet our Hiring Manager for the 2nd interview via Teams video. This interview is designed to be more detail oriented and allows you to learn more about the role
- Phase 3: Top candidates will receive an invite for our final interview series via Teams video. This series will include an experiential exercise project (provided in advance), 1:1 interviews with selected team members and a culture focused interview. The final series is roughly 1.5-3 hours in total but can be scheduled over a few days for flexibility.
What's in it for you?
Coterie has excellent benefits for all full-time employees. We offer the following:
- 100% remote.
- Health insurance through Aetna (we pay 100% of premiums).
- Dental and vision insurance through Guardian (we pay 100% of premiums).
- Basic life insurance (we pay 100% of premiums).
- Access to flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA) (for those using HSA eligible plans).
- 401K plan (up 4% match with immediate vest).
- Unlimited PTO and company paid holidays. We expect you to take at least 80 hours during the year not including paid holidays: New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day. We also encourage the celebration of personal holidays and important family events.
- Continuing education stipend.
- A culture with a deep belief in intentionality, inclusion, and treating you like the professional you are.
- Formalized, universal mentorship via Coterie Core-Coaching program.
- The salary range for this position is estimated between 85,000- 100,000 based on national data. Candidates who meet all the minimum requirements and possess additional relevant experience, as outlined in the job description, may be considered for a salary above the midpoint of the specified salary range above. Salary is based on internal equity; internal salary ranges; market data/ranges; applicant’s skills; prior relevant experience; degrees or certifications, etc.
