Senior Leader, Insurance Solutions – Insurance Solutions

Job Description

Insurance Structuring and Solutions Lead | New York Life Insurance Company

The Tone:
This is a full-time senior leadership role at New York Life Insurance Company, located in a hybrid capacity (4 days/week) in New York, NY. New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) manages over $800 billion in assets, serving institutional, retail, and insurance clients as a top global asset manager. This role is crucial for building and scaling NYLIM’s insurance solutions business by shaping product strategy, designing sophisticated investment structures, and coordinating execution across the platform.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – New York, NY
• Pay: $200000–$275000 yearly
• Team: Insurance Solutions team, reporting to the Head of Insurance Solutions
• Mission: Shape product strategy, design investment structures, develop new solutions, and coordinate execution to build and scale the firm’s global insurance solutions business.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategy Development: Partner with the Head of Insurance Solutions to develop and execute the long-term strategy for the insurance solutions business.
• Solution Design: Design investment solutions that effectively address insurers’ investment, capital, accounting, liquidity, and regulatory objectives.
• Structuring Opportunities: Partner on a broad range of structuring opportunities, including rated feeders, collateralized fund obligations, secondaries, credit insurance, and customized investment solutions.
• Efficient Outcomes: Evaluate opportunities to structure solutions at the underlying asset level, as well as at the fund, portfolio, and vehicle level, to create efficient and scalable outcomes for insurance investors.
• Global Market Development: Help identify and develop opportunities across global insurance markets, including Europe and Asia, where unique regulatory frameworks and capital requirements may create attractive opportunities.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior professional with 10+ years of relevant experience in insurance investments, institutional asset management, product strategy, or investment structuring. Possesses a deep understanding of insurance company portfolios, statutory accounting, capital requirements, and insurance regulation.
• Experience: Over a decade of experience designing institutional investment structures and customized client solutions, including structured investment vehicles or asset-level structuring. Proven experience working across multiple investment teams and asset classes to develop integrated solutions.
• Skills: Strong knowledge of insurance regulatory and capital frameworks, with experience across U.S. and global markets. Familiarity with investment vehicles such as separately managed accounts, commingled funds, rated feeders, collateralized fund obligations, and insurance dedicated funds. Strong understanding of private markets, fixed income, structured credit, multi-asset portfolios, and the role of credit insurance in developing investment solutions.
• Bonus: Experience or familiarity with European and Asian insurance markets and global insurance regulatory regimes is valued.