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Life & Annuity Specialist

Listed pay: $80 / hr

What the posting lists, in US dollars an hour, before anything Mercor deducts.

52 openings on this one listing.

How to apply
Platform
Mercor
Terms
Contract, part-time
Location
Remote, see the posting
Posted
· 2 weeks ago
Status
Open at the last check

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What happens after you click

  1. The link opens this role on Mercor. Sign up and apply from there.
  2. Upload a resume, complete the assessments the role asks for and verify your work authorisation.
  3. An AI interview of about 20 minutes. Mercor says it usually takes 2 to 4 weeks to hear back.
  4. If Mercor hires you, you are paid weekly, on the Wednesday after each work week, via Stripe. Mercor says first payouts are held for 7 days.
  5. The work is paid by the hour, at the $80 this posting lists.
  6. Remote. The posting states "USA, CAN, GBR, AUS, NZL, IRL, MLT, NLD, SWE, DNK, NOR, FIN, DEU, AUT, BEL", which we could not read as a country list — check it before applying.

What the work is

Compensation: all experts are paid a flat $800 upon successful completion of the onboarding process, which we estimate takes approximately 10 hours. After successfully completing onboarding, you will be converted to $80/hour.

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We're hiring Life & Annuity Specialists to design realistic advisory, underwriting and policy-service scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established industry standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about mortality risk, long-horizon guarantees and suitability.

We welcome life and annuity producers, advisors, life underwriters, new-business and policy-service professionals, product specialists, and suitability or replacement reviewers from carriers, brokerage general agencies, IMOs, and independent practices.

What You'll Do

  • Design realistic scenarios involving needs analysis, product selection, illustrations, medical and financial underwriting, table ratings, replacements and 1035 exchanges, policy loans, surrenders, lapse and reinstatement

  • Create work products such as coverage recommendations, illustration comparisons, underwriting assessments, suitability rationales, replacement analyses and policy-service determinations

  • Write "golden" reference responses at experienced life and annuity practitioner quality

  • Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for product accuracy, suitability, mathematical correctness and disclosure adequacy

  • Identify unsupported illustration assumptions, unsuitable recommendations, confusion between product types or tax treatments, and failures to apply replacement or disclosure requirements

  • Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior

  • Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

You're a Good Fit If You

  • Have 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business, policy administration, product, or suitability review

  • Have worked with at least one product family, such as term, whole life, universal or indexed universal life, variable life, or fixed, indexed and variable annuities

  • Understand how policy mechanics (cost of insurance, crediting, caps and participation rates, surrender charges, riders and guarantees) drive long-term outcomes

  • Can explain tax treatment and suitability considerations clearly, and recognize when licensed or legal review is required

  • Demonstrate excellent written communication, quantitative care and high attention to detail

  • Can distinguish product and suitability judgment from investment advice and formal tax or legal advice

Bonus Qualifications

  • CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CFP, or comparable designation

  • Active or previously held life and health producer license, or securities registration

  • Medical or financial life underwriting experience, including APS review, lab interpretation or reinsurance referral

  • Experience with buy-sell, key-person, estate-planning, premium-finance or executive-benefit cases

  • Experience with suitability, Reg BI, or state replacement and disclosure review

Role Highlights

  • Minimum 20 hours per week (ideally 40+)

  • Role starts immediately, applications reviewed on a rolling basis

From the Mercor listing.