Recruitment partner for insurers and insurtechs in India
Life, general and health insurers, and the insurtechs and digital arms competing with them, are hiring the same technology, data and product profiles as fintechs and banks, with one extra requirement: the candidate has to understand how an insurance product is priced, sold, administered and paid out. That is the requirement most shortlists miss, and the one we screen for first.
The segment we work in
Insurance is the part of Indian financial services where the technology estate is being rebuilt most visibly: policy administration and claims platforms moving off legacy cores, distribution shifting to digital and bancassurance channels that need real-time integration, and pricing, underwriting and fraud functions moving from actuarial spreadsheets to data platforms. Each of those shifts creates roles that did not exist in the sector five years ago, and a candidate pool that mostly comes from outside it.
We work with insurers and insurtechs on the technology, data, risk and distribution-technology roles inside that rebuild. The head-office, distribution and compliance functions sit largely in Mumbai and Delhi NCR; the platform, shared-services and captive technology work in Pune, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. We do not run agency-force or branch sales hiring at volume, and we say so on the first call.
Roles we work on in this segment
Platform engineering. Engineers and engineering leaders for policy administration, claims, billing and reinsurance systems, including the migrations off legacy cores and the integration layers around them.
Digital distribution and bancassurance technology. Product managers and engineers for direct-to-customer journeys, partner and bank integrations, and the aggregator and embedded channels that now carry a growing share of new business.
Data, analytics and pricing. Data engineers, analytics leaders and data scientists working on pricing, underwriting, claims analytics and fraud, sitting alongside rather than inside the actuarial function.
Technology risk and information security. The same profiles we place at banks and NBFCs, with the IRDAI's information and cyber security requirements as the operating context.
Risk, compliance and product governance. Compliance and risk professionals facing the IRDAI, and the product and governance roles that sit between actuarial, distribution and the regulator.
The broader discipline list is on roles we hire. For a sense of what these profiles are paid in adjacent segments, the salary benchmarks cover backend engineering, information security, technology risk and credit risk across financial services.
How we engage in this segment
Search runs on a success-fee: you pay when the candidate joins, and there is no fee for shortlist or assessment work that does not produce a hire. Confidential leadership searches can run on retained terms. Every mandate starts with a conversation with the founder about the role, the platform it sits on and what has already been tried, because that conversation is where most of the screening criteria come from.
Shortlists are short on purpose, three to four candidates the hiring manager would interview rather than a long list padded for coverage, and each comes with a written assessment covering domain fluency as well as technical depth. Typical brief-to-offer on a specialist mandate is four to six weeks. The commercial terms are stated in full on how we work.
Insurance hiring: common questions
What roles do you recruit for at insurers in India?
Technology, data, risk and distribution-technology roles: engineers and leaders for policy administration and claims platforms, digital distribution and bancassurance integration, data engineering and analytics for pricing, underwriting and fraud, technology risk and information security, and compliance roles that face the IRDAI. We do not run agency-force or branch sales hiring at volume.
Do you work with insurtechs as well as established insurers?
Yes. Insurtechs and the digital arms of established insurers hire the same product, engineering and data profiles as fintechs, with the added requirement that the candidate understands how an insurance product is priced, sold and serviced. That overlap with our fintech practice is where most of our insurance work sits.
Why is insurance technology hiring different from general technology hiring?
Because the domain shapes the engineering. Policy lifecycles, claims workflows, reinsurance treaties, regulatory reporting and distribution channel rules all live in the systems an insurer builds. A candidate who has never worked on a policy administration or claims platform clears a generic technical screen and then spends a quarter learning what the product is. We screen for that domain up front.
Which cities do you cover for insurance hiring?
Mumbai for head offices and distribution leadership, Delhi NCR for insurers and insurance distribution, Pune and Chennai for insurance captives and shared-services technology, and Bengaluru and Hyderabad for insurtech engineering and captive centres.
How do you charge for insurance mandates?
Success-fee, paid when the candidate joins. There is no fee for shortlist or assessment work that does not result in a placement. Retained terms are available for confidential leadership searches. See retained vs success-fee.
Send a brief
Hiring at an insurer or insurtech in 2026?
Tell us the role and the platform it sits on. We will tell you honestly whether the brief fits how we work, and what the candidate market looks like for it right now.
- Read by a senior member of the team, not an intake queue
- A reply within one working day: the realistic candidate pool, the pay band, the timeline, and whether we are the right partner
- Success-fee: you pay only when the candidate joins
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