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At Root, we're pushing for bold progress and change across the insurance industry and beyond. We're harnessing data and technology to bring fairness and ease to customers through our products, partnerships, and our ongoing efforts to make the roads fairer and safer for everyone. We believe in supporting our team members where they thrive, and we provide the technology and resources that they need to do their best work, whenever they are. That's our work and our Root life.

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📍 United States

💸 180000.0 - 229000.0 USD per year

🔍 FinTech

  • 7+ years as a software engineer
  • 3+ years leading software teams
  • Expertise in Ruby on Rails
  • Familiarity with React
  • Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
  • Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders
  • Co-lead your team with your Engineering Manager, helping to coach, model for and grow the other team members.
  • Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come
  • Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams
  • Contribute code strategically each development cycle to advance the impact of the team
  • Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems
  • Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices

Backend DevelopmentLeadershipRuby on RailsCross-functional Team LeadershipReactCommunication SkillsRESTful APIsExcellent communication skillsTeam managementSoftware Engineering

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📍 United States

💸 110000.0 - 126000.0 USD per year

🔍 Financial Services

  • 5+ years of experience – agency, automotive, or financial services preferred
  • Experience working with high-profile national and global brands
  • Proven track record of developing successful marketing strategies for major brand partnerships
  • Experience with "cold starts" – launching and scaling new marketing channels or initiatives
  • Strong analytical mindset with ability to derive insights from campaign data
  • Excellent project management skills with ability to coordinate multiple workstreams
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders
  • Experience working in fast-paced, results-oriented environments
  • Develop and execute comprehensive marketing strategies for Root's Tier 1 partnerships
  • Collaborate closely with partner marketing teams to create cohesive, co-branded customer experiences
  • Design launch strategies for new partnerships and partnership features to maximize initial impact
  • Establish measurement frameworks and KPIs to track partnership marketing effectiveness
  • Identify opportunities to optimize the customer journey and conversion rates through A/B testing
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business Development teams to ensure marketing strategies align with product capabilities and business goals
  • Develop campaigns and marketing assets that maintain brand consistency while meeting partner requirements
  • Present marketing strategies and results to executive leadership and partner stakeholders
  • Stay current on automotive industry trends

Project ManagementBusiness DevelopmentData AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipStrategyAnalytical SkillsPresentation skillsExcellent communication skillsMarket ResearchMarketingStakeholder managementStrategic thinkingDigital MarketingA/B testing

Posted 22 days ago
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🔥 Sr. Actuarial Analyst
Posted 22 days ago

📍 United States of America

💸 85000.0 - 104000.0 USD per year

🔍 P&C insurance

  • 3+ years of actuarial experience in the P&C insurance industry, preferably with a focus on personal auto insurance
  • Intermediate experience with R, Tableau
  • Demonstrable experience in SQL
  • 3+ CAS/SOA exams
  • Reserving and/or reinsurance experience a plus
  • Demonstrable experience in data analysis, financial reporting and/or predictive modeling
  • A strong foundation in statistical analysis, ideally with exposure to non-traditional or machine learning-driven reserving models
  • Execute reinsurance initiatives, including but not limited to, aggregation of internal data for treaty renewal submissions, analysis of treaty performance and reinsurance market trends, and further the automation of net of reinsurance calculations for financial reporting
  • Support month-end reserving processes
  • Collaborate with stakeholders in Claims, Pricing, and State Management to understand the impact of internal and external factors on reserves, loss development patterns, and trends.​
  • Leverage statistical and projection models to further develop Root’s reserve methodology
  • Research loss performance of Root’s book of business at a more granular, detailed level
  • Evaluate and analyze market data to make competitive strategic decisions
  • Contribute to additional strategic initiatives as needed

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Posted 22 days ago
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🔥 Account Executive
Posted 22 days ago

📍 United States

💸 93000.0 - 110000.0 USD per year

🔍 Insurance

  • 5+ years experience in sales, business development, or account management
  • Experience in a technology company
  • Experience with managing marketing business to business marketing programs
  • Experience in business to business account development
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for our partners and their day to day needs, questions, performance reviews, and optimizations.
  • Identify business development opportunities through targeted pipeline development, targeted outreach, and other sales activities.
  • Serve as an advocate for partners and can tie product value to C-level outcomes
  • Focus on optimization, execution, efficiency, speed to market and standardization across our different partners
  • Demonstrate ownership and ability to build upon success metrics and ongoing development for the Account Manager Role
  • Conduit between our partners and internal cross-functional teams: Product, Analytics, Data Science, Legal, Engineering, etc
  • Develop a deep understanding of Root’s capabilities and how they serve our partners
  • Understand the partners’ requirements and is able to articulate to product and engineering so that a solution can be designed and implemented effectively
  • Responsible for exceeding and managing partner expectations
  • Contribute regularly to documentation based on partner feedback: Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews, Business Proposals to partners outlining the benefits of our technical and product solutions, and Performance Reports related to Marketing Campaigns, etc.
  • Recommend creative solutions to problems in order to keep integrations moving forward
  • Discern when to pull in Senior Root leadership
  • Demonstrate presentation skills and a high degree of comfort speaking with a large cross functional group of individuals in many different roles.
  • Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and the ability to forge deep and wide relationships across the partners’ organization
  • Structured approach to interpreting data to deliver key results
  • Take ownership of OKRs and KPI and builds supporting material and documentation outlining value and impact towards these metrics.
  • Willingness to travel

Data AnalysisExcel VBACross-functional Team LeadershipCommunication SkillsNegotiationPresentation skillsAccount ManagementTrainingClient relationship managementRelationship managementSales experienceMarketingStrategic thinking

Posted 22 days ago
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🔥 Lead CRM Technologist
Posted 22 days ago

📍 United States

💸 110000.0 - 126000.0 USD per year

🔍 FinTech

  • 5+ years of experience in marketing technology or related technical roles
  • Deep expertise with Braze or similar enterprise CRM platforms
  • Strong technical understanding of email and SMS infrastructure, deliverability, and best practices
  • Experience designing and implementing complex marketing automation workflows
  • Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for email development
  • Knowledge of API integrations and data management for marketing platforms
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret and act on performance data
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments
  • Serve as the primary technical owner of Root's Braze platform, including architecture, configuration, and optimization
  • Design and implement email/SMS infrastructure to support marketing initiatives across multiple channels
  • Develop technical best practices for customer communications to ensure deliverability, performance, and compliance
  • Create and maintain documentation for CRM platforms and processes
  • Work with our engineering teams to design automated workflows, templates, and reusable components to improve marketing efficiency
  • Partner with data teams to design and implement customer segmentation strategies
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate CRM platforms with Root's broader technology ecosystem
  • Provide technical guidance on complex marketing campaigns, particularly for Tier 1 partnerships
  • Monitor and optimize email/SMS deliverability and performance metrics
  • Troubleshoot technical issues and provide solutions to ensure campaign success
  • Evaluate and recommend new marketing technologies to enhance Root's capabilities

Data AnalysisHTMLCSSJavascriptAPI testingAnalytical SkillsProblem-solving skillsMarketingCRMData management

Posted 22 days ago
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📍 United States of America

🧭 Full-Time

💸 300000.0 - 325000.0 USD per year

🔍 Insurance, Financial Services

  • 10+ years of leadership experience in cybersecurity, IT, and risk management roles, in highly regulated industries such as insurance or financial services.
  • Deep familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory standards, and IT best practices.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling multi-disciplinary Security and IT teams.
  • Expertise in cloud-native environments and modern security technologies.
  • Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable business terms for executive and legal audiences.
  • Cross-functional leadership and strategy experience around product security initiatives, particularly around effectively aligning and working with product and engineering leadership
  • Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or equivalent highly desirable.
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive information security and IT roadmap aligned to company strategy and risk tolerance.
  • Foster and grow a collaborative, high-performing culture across the organization.
  • Represent cybersecurity and IT initiatives at the executive and board levels, including quarterly reporting and strategic planning.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on security, risk, technology, and compliance matters.
  • Drive awareness and alignment across cross-functional teams by championing the critical role of product security, and influence product roadmaps to ensure robust and proactive risk management.
  • Set technical direction for security architecture, standards, and automation; build and maintain scalable security services (vulnerability management, secure CI/CD patterns, embedded security controls); provide technical oversight and assessment; act as internal consultant and enabler.
  • Facilitate rigorous endpoint protection, vulnerability management, threat monitoring, and security incident response; coordinate security awareness training programs; manage third-party security providers
  • Oversee user lifecycle management and IAM platform enhancements; promote operational excellence in access request handling; support continuous improvement initiatives
  • Lead rigorous periodic risk assessments, application risk management, and third party vendor security reviews; facilitate maintaining compliance with cybersecurity regulations and manage attestation process; oversee the security framework and policy lifecycle, control testing programs, and enterprise risk reporting; lead the execution of penetration test engagements.
  • Manage technology asset lifecycle, procurement, inventory, and secure disposal; supervise end-user support, device management, and IT infrastructure operations; oversee management of core business platforms and office network support; ensure consistent and secure onboarding, offboarding, and operational IT excellence

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🔥 Lead Platform Engineer
Posted about 1 month ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 165248.0 - 188000.0 USD per year

🔍 FinTech

  • 5+ years as a software engineer, with 2+ years as a lead developer.
  • Experience developing self-service capabilities for other engineering teams
  • Advanced expertise in Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices
  • Advanced expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture and foundational AWS Services
  • Expertise in CI/CD and related concepts
  • Proficiency in Ruby or Python
  • Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
  • Excellent communication skills with engineering peers and stakeholders, with a proven record of guiding teams to successful project outcomes
  • Design and set direction of our platform engineering strategy, infrastructure best practices, and technical roadmap
  • Guide, mentor, and ensure the team’s adherence to established best practices
  • Perform code reviews and provide coaching where necessary
  • Ensure our infrastructure and internal platforms remain up to date with the latest practices and standards
  • Lead and participate in the development of platform features and capabilities required to support strategic initiatives
  • Work closely with the team’s Engineering Manager to help direct, motivate, and guide the platform engineering team
  • Educate and coach platform and product engineers on cloud infrastructure best practices
  • Actively seek to understand our stakeholder’s problems to ensure you are developing effective solutions
  • Increase the effectiveness of your team by suggesting code and process improvements

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📍 United States

💸 119000.0 - 149000.0 USD per year

🔍 FinTech

  • 4+ years of product management experience; retention-focused experience highly valued
  • Experience with subscription or recurring payment products and customer retention strategies
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive meaningful insights from customer data
  • Experience with complex technical systems and integrations, ideally billing & payment experience
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex concepts into simple user experiences
  • Experience in agile development methodologies
  • Customer-centric mindset with demonstrated success in improving user experiences
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to multitask and prioritize effectively
  • Adaptable approach to scope and responsibilities in a growing organization
  • Collaborative work style with the ability to influence without direct authority
  • Roll-up-the-sleeves work ethic and "do-what-it-takes" attitude to drive results in a fast-paced environment
  • Drive execution of the 2025 Billing & Payments roadmap while defining the vision for 2026
  • Partner with research and design to deeply understand customer needs, pain points, and opportunities within the billing and payment experiences
  • Create seamless payment experiences that remove friction and make it easy for customers to maintain their policies
  • Develop retention strategies and features that showcase Root's value and encourage long-term relationships
  • Lead a team of engineers through the full product lifecycle, from ideation to implementation and iteration
  • Write clear product requirement documentation (PRDs) that align business strategy with engineering plans
  • Cultivate a prioritized product backlog using robust product frameworks and data-driven decision making
  • Measure and analyze the performance of your product area, using insights to drive continuous improvement
  • Facilitate team delivery events using agile practices to ensure consistent, high-quality outputs

AgileData AnalysisProduct ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentProduct AnalyticsRESTful APIsFinancial analysisCustomer Success

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📍 United States

💸 165248.0 - 188000.0 USD per year

🔍 FinTech

  • 4+ years as a DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineer
  • 2+ years leading technical projects/programs
  • Broad experience in cloud technologies, AWS preferred
  • Familiarity with Agile/Kanban processes
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies and tools
  • Proven experience in planning and executing cross-functional projects that achieve the expected outcomes or drive significant learning
  • Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and team stakeholders
  • Lead Complex Technical Initiatives: Drive large-scale, cross-functional programs by collaborating with engineering, product, and data science teams to achieve optimal technical and business outcomes.
  • Advance Engineering Excellence: Ensure high standards of engineering rigor and operational excellence across projects, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and scalable solutions.
  • Strategic Planning & Execution: Break down ambiguous technical problems into actionable tasks, prioritize deliverables, manage timelines, and identify risks to ensure successful program delivery.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with stakeholders across all levels, communicating technical concepts clearly and tailoring messages to different audiences.
  • Risk Management & Decision Making: Identify technical and program risks, negotiate trade-offs, and make informed decisions to optimize business outcomes.
  • Process Optimization: Develop and refine processes to streamline teamwork, increase velocity, and reduce complexity, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and on time.
  • Metrics-Driven Success: Help establish and track key metrics to measure program success, driving continuous improvements based on data and feedback.

AWSProject ManagementAgileCloud ComputingCross-functional Team LeadershipREST APICommunication SkillsCI/CDDevOpsRisk ManagementStakeholder managementSoftware Engineering

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 133784.0 - 155000.0 USD per year

🔍 FinTech

  • Expertise in Terraform and IAC best practices
  • Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture and foundational AWS services (Networking, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM)
  • Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and related concepts
  • Proficiency in Ruby or Python
  • Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
  • Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders
  • Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Develop and manage self-service capabilities for engineering teams
  • Educate and coach platform and product engineers on cloud infrastructure best practices
  • Actively seek to understand our stakeholder’s problems to ensure you are developing effective solutions
  • Collaborate closely with teammates to share and improve your work
  • Clearly communicate and document your work to help others learn
  • Support your systems in production, resolving incidents and issues that affect our customers and stakeholders
  • Increase the effectiveness of your team by suggesting code and process improvements

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