Hire Insurance Executives Who Understand Products, People, and Profit
The insurance industry demands leaders who can operate within regulatory frameworks, manage risk portfolios, and still drive commercial performance. Whether you’re scaling distribution, modernizing underwriting, or expanding into new verticals, the cost of a mis-hire in insurance leadership is high—and avoidable.
At Ready Set Exec, we help insurance carriers, brokers, MGAs, and insurtech companies hire leaders with deep product knowledge, operational discipline, and market foresight. Fast, vetted, and ready to deliver.
Who We Place in Insurance
We specialize in hiring across underwriting, claims, compliance, and commercial leadership:
The Hiring Risks in Insurance Are Real—We Help You Avoid Them
Too often, insurance firms face:
- Leaders who can’t keep up with modernization or digital transformation
- Product-focused hires who lack commercial instincts
- Compliance-heavy candidates who can’t drive change
- Cultural mismatches that ripple across teams
We vet for alignment in mindset, capability, and regulatory fluency—so you can hire with clarity.
Why Insurance Organizations Work With Ready Set Exec
- We Understand Insurance Structures and Stakeholders: From carriers to captives, we know the roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines that define success.
- We Move Fast—With Zero Tolerance for Misalignment: You’ll get a shortlist of candidates who are not only qualified—but stage- and culture-appropriate.
- Founder-Led Search, From Brief to Final Interview: We don’t pass your search down the ladder. You work directly with experts.
- Retention Is Built Into Our Process: Because nothing’s more expensive than losing a leader mid-policy year.
Hire the Insurance Executive Who Can Actually Deliver on Risk, Growth, and Change
Whether you need to evolve underwriting, modernize claims, or strengthen compliance, we’ll help you hire the leader who can do it—and stick.
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Retained search involves a significant upfront financial commitment from the client, typically paid in three instalments: one-third upfront, one-third upon interviewing, and the final third upon hiring. This commitment signifies a strong dedication to finding the right candidate and ensures that the recruiting firm allocates substantial time and resources to the search process. In contrast, contingent searches require no payment until a candidate is hired. While this may seem like a lower-risk option, it often results in less commitment, time, energy and resources from the recruiting firm. Contingent searches are typically deprioritized in favor of retained searches, and resources are allocated accordingly.
Contingent searches are ideal for those seeking speed and volume in the recruitment process, typically in more transactional environments. They are recommended for filling entry-level or mid-level roles that can be filled within 30 days. On the other hand, a retained search represents a true partnership between the client and the search firm. It entails a firm commitment from the recruiting company to fill the role effectively. Executive searches, a type of retained search, tend to have a higher success rate, ranging from 80% to 95%, compared to the average success rate of around 15% for contingent searches.
Our standard guarantee period is for 90 days. This allows you to have a full quarter of performance with your new hire. If the candidate’s performance is not satisfactory, then READY SET EXEC will find a one time replacement candidate that meets your hiring criteria. Usually, we are able to go back to our active candidate pool and find one of the top candidates for you or we will conduct the search again. The one time guarantee does not extend the guarantee period, rather it is a fulfillment of our promise to ensure you have a candidate for hire. When making a new hire, having a structured and thoughtful onboarding process, training and a healthy work environment contributes to successfully integrating your new employee and increasing your employee retention.
39 days and 100% success in partnership searches following our milestone fee system. This timeline includes the search start and ramp up, a candidate going through our recruitment process, then client interviews, then an offer being negotiated. The candidate will also give notice to their employer which can be two to four weeks.
