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Progressive · Cleveland, OH

# Manager Life Underwriting - Progressive Life

Cleveland, Ohio, United States +1 more Manager or lead $120,000 - $160,000/year 

Last seen on Progressive’s official careers site on July 14, 2026; it may have closed since.
[Apply on Progressive’s careers site →](https://careers.progressive.com/jobs/17936898-manager-life-underwriting-progressive-life/)

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## Job description

Progressive is dedicated to helping employees move forward and live fully in their careers. Your journey has already begun. Apply today and take the first step to Destination: Progress. As a life underwriting manager with Progressive Life, you’ll lead a team of underwriters responsible for supporting the delivery of our life insurance products. In this role, you’ll serve as a resource for complex underwriting decisions while overseeing day-to-day operations, including coaching and development, reviewing approvals and audit results, and supporting underwriting guidelines and best practices.

You’ll partner closely with Product, Analytics, Compliance, Legal and other business partners to support underwriting strategy, operational performance, and continuous improvement initiatives. As the organization continues to grow, you’ll play a key role in developing talent, enhancing underwriting capabilities, and helping shape the future of the underwriting function. Progressive Life began within Level20, Progressive’s growth incubator, where we built a term life insurance product and business from the ground up.

After a successful launch and early growth, we’ve spun out into the Strategy group, now focused on scaling our products, capabilities, and impact. You’ll be joining the organization at an exciting stage of growth as the team continues to building and expanding products, capabilities and delivery practices. This is a hybrid role in downtown Cleveland, OH (Office Location: 800 W St Clair Ave STE 200, Cleveland, OH 44113) with free parking.

Work-from-home days are possible for this position (Monday and Friday). We will be relocating to the Progressive headquarters campus (300 North Commons Blvd, Mayfield Village, Ohio 44143) later this year.

### If you live within 45 miles

this will be a hybrid role. You’ll work in our office location Tuesday – Thursday and you’ll have the option to work remotely Monday and Friday.

### If you live more than 45 miles away

this will be a hybrid role. You may work remotely except you’ll work in our office location every 4-6 weeks, Tuesday – Thursday. You may travel on Monday and Friday as necessary.
- Must-have qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years life insurance underwriting experience, including at least
- 3 years in a leadership, mentoring, coaching, or supervisory role {OR} Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Finance, Risk Management, or a related field and a minimum of 5 years of life insurance underwriting experience, including at least
- 3 years in a leadership, mentoring, coaching, or supervisory role Preferred skills Experience underwriting term life, whole life, universal life, or other life insurance products within an automated underwriting environment
- Knowledge of prescription database scoring, fraud protection tools, MIB, and electronic health records FALU and/or FLMI designation
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to coach and mentor others, drive consistency in decision-making, and team performance, and develop underwriting guidelines, best practices, and operational standards
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity within an evolving business environment; strong collaboration and relationship-building skills Compensation $120,000 - $160,000/year Gainshare annual cash incentive payment up to 40% of your eligible earnings based on company performance Benefits 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6% Medical, dental & vision, including free preventative care Wellness & mental health programs Health care flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, & life insurance Paid time off, including volunteer time off Paid & unpaid sick leave where applicable, as well as short & long-term disability Parental & family leave; military leave & pay Diverse, inclusive & welcoming culture with Employee Resource Groups Career development & tuition assistance Energage recognizes Progressive as a 2025 Top Workplace for: Innovation, Purposes & Values, Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits, and Leadership.

Equal Opportunity Employer Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without the need or potential need, of current or future sponsorship for employment. Progressive does not hire candidates with (e.g., F-1 CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN) statuses for this role. For ideas about how you might be able to protect yourself from job scams, visit our scam-awareness page at [https://careers.progressive.com/pages/how-we-hire-faq-job-scams/](https://careers.progressive.com/pages/how-we-hire-faq-job-scams/) #LI-Remote #LI-CL1

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Jun 29, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Jul 14, 2026
- Last checked: Jul 14, 2026
- Listed for: 15 days
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States +1 more
- Pay: $120,000 - $160,000/year[Apply on Progressive’s careers site →](https://careers.progressive.com/jobs/17936898-manager-life-underwriting-progressive-life/)

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