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Policy Administration & Insurance Operations Manager

Company: Mercor · Pay: $80/hr · Location: Remote — Global · Type: contractor · Posted: 2026-09-14

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$80 / hr

Revolutionizing Insurance Operations: The Rise of AI Reasoning Models in Policy Administration

The insurance industry is fundamentally built on complex workflows, meticulous documentation, and precise operational execution. From initial application intake and binding to endorsements, premium audits, renewals, and policy cancellations, the lifecycle of an insurance policy demands absolute attention to detail. For decades, these administrative operations have relied on legacy systems, human intuition, and rigorous procedural guidelines. Today, however, artificial intelligence is reshaping the landscape, creating an unprecedented demand for seasoned insurance professionals who can train frontier models to understand the intricacies of insurance policy administration.

Platforms like Mercor are at the forefront of this transformation, connecting elite artificial intelligence research labs with domain-expert professionals. The Policy Administration & Insurance Operations Manager role provides career insurance executives, operations managers, and servicing specialists with an exceptional opportunity to influence how next-generation AI systems reason about financial risk, contract lifecycles, and operational compliance. Compensated at an attractive $80 per hour—with an initial flat onboarding completion bonus—this fully remote contract position allows insurance professionals to leverage their years of industry mastery in an innovative, high-impact capacity.

Comprehensive Job Description & Core Responsibilities

For insurance professionals, carriers, Managing General Agents (MGAs), Third-Party Administrators (TPAs), and insurance-services veterans looking to pivot into AI training and remote consulting, understanding the exact scope of this role is essential. The core mandate of this position is to design rigorous policy-processing scenarios, establish reliable benchmark answers, and evaluate AI-generated outputs against real-world operational standards.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Scenario Design: Construct realistic, multi-faceted policy-processing scenarios covering the entire spectrum of the insurance lifecycle, including application intake, binding, policy issuance, endorsements, certificates of insurance, billing, audits, renewals, cancellations, reinstatements, and document delivery.
  • Operational Work Products: Produce professional work deliverables such as processing instructions, transaction reviews, exception-handling plans, service communications, and comprehensive operational quality checks.
  • Golden Reference Responses: Write authoritative, expert-level reference responses that reflect the highest standards of experienced insurance operations management.
  • AI Output Grading: Rigorously grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics, assessing procedural accuracy, step-by-step sequencing, completeness, and adherence to established service standards.
  • Error Detection & Distinction: Identify subtle operational discrepancies, such as incorrect effective dates, missing documentation, improper transaction sequencing, and confusion between administrative execution versus substantive underwriting decisions.
  • Feedback & Optimization: Provide clear, structured written feedback that AI research teams directly integrate to refine and improve model behavioral logic.
  • Collaboration: Actively participate in onboarding office hours, team calibration sessions, and continuous improvement reviews.

Candidate Qualifications & Professional Requirements

Because the AI models trained through this program are designed to process complex commercial and personal lines data accurately, the qualifications for this role demand genuine, hands-on domain expertise.

Must-Have Requirements:
  • Professional Background: 2+ years of verified professional experience in policy administration, underwriting operations, insurance servicing, premium operations, or policy-processing management.
  • Lifecycle Mastery: A deep, chronological understanding of the policy lifecycle—from initial intake and quote binding through issuance, servicing, renewal, termination, and archival record retention.
  • System Familiarity: Hands-on experience navigating policy administration systems (PAS), workflow queues, transaction controls, and formal quality-assurance processes.
  • Procedural Precision: The ability to translate complex regulatory and policy requirements into precise, step-by-step operational workflows.
  • Communication & Discipline: Exceptional written English communication skills, intense process discipline, and meticulous attention to detail.
  • Boundary Recognition: A clear ability to distinguish administrative execution and processing from substantive underwriting, claims adjudication, legal, and actuarial decision-making.

Bonus Qualifications: Cross-line Property & Casualty (P&C) expertise; experience with premium audits, billing, producer licensing, or forms management; background in implementing or testing policy administration systems; Lean, Six Sigma, or project-management credentials; and leadership experience managing service teams.

Contract Terms, Flexibility, and Seamless Global Payouts

Engaging as an independent contractor through Mercor provides professional freedom and financial security that traditional corporate structures rarely match:

  • Flexible Scheduling: Complete your evaluation projects on your own time while maintaining a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week (with 40+ hours available for high-output contributors).
  • Lucrative Compensation Structure: Earn a flat $800 upon successful completion of the onboarding process (estimated at 10 hours), transitioning immediately to a competitive $80 per hour rate thereafter.
  • Prompt Weekly Pay: Receive reliable weekly remuneration disbursed securely via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
  • Global Remote Access: Open to qualified professionals residing in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and several other eligible regions.

Why This Role Elevates Your Insurance Career

For insurance operations experts, transitioning into AI development represents a powerful career evolution. Rather than being confined to repetitive processing loops or rigid corporate hierarchies, you become a pioneer guiding how artificial intelligence handles administrative logic and workflow accuracy. This experience not only offers an exceptional $80/hr compensation package but also future-proofs your career as insurance technology evolves.

Secure Your Opportunity Today

Specialized remote roles requiring deep insurance domain expertise are highly sought after, and application reviews occur on a rolling basis. If you have spent years mastering policy administration and operational workflows, take control of your schedule and earnings by submitting your application today.

Responsibilities

  • Scenario Design: Construct realistic, multi-faceted policy-processing scenarios covering the entire spectrum of the insurance lifecycle, including application intake, binding, policy issuance, endorsements, certificates of insurance, billing, audits, renewals, cancellations, reinstatements, and document delivery.
  • Operational Work Products: Produce professional work deliverables such as processing instructions, transaction reviews, exception-handling plans, service communications, and comprehensive operational quality checks.
  • Golden Reference Responses: Write authoritative, expert-level reference responses that reflect the highest standards of experienced insurance operations management.
  • AI Output Grading: Rigorously grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics, assessing procedural accuracy, step-by-step sequencing, completeness, and adherence to established service standards.
  • Error Detection & Distinction: Identify subtle operational discrepancies, such as incorrect effective dates, missing documentation, improper transaction sequencing, and confusion between administrative execution versus substantive underwriting decisions.
  • Feedback & Optimization: Provide clear, structured written feedback that AI research teams directly integrate to refine and improve model behavioral logic.
  • Collaboration: Actively participate in onboarding office hours, team calibration sessions, and continuous improvement reviews.

Qualifications

  • Professional Background: 2+ years of verified professional experience in policy administration, underwriting operations, insurance servicing, premium operations, or policy-processing management.
  • Lifecycle Mastery: A deep, chronological understanding of the policy lifecycle—from initial intake and quote binding through issuance, servicing, renewal, termination, and archival record retention.
  • System Familiarity: Hands-on experience navigating policy administration systems (PAS), workflow queues, transaction controls, and formal quality-assurance processes.
  • Procedural Precision: The ability to translate complex regulatory and policy requirements into precise, step-by-step operational workflows.
  • Communication & Discipline: Exceptional written English communication skills, intense process discipline, and meticulous attention to detail.
  • Boundary Recognition: A clear ability to distinguish administrative execution and processing from substantive underwriting, claims adjudication, legal, and actuarial decision-making.

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