Associate Claims Manager - Professional Liability (Dental)

JOB DESCRIPTION Claims Manager  - Professional Liability (Dental) Counterpart is a management and professional liability insurance platform for the 21st century workplace. We offer products and services to help companies align the risks and incentives of creating great organizations. Our platform is designed to measure risk more efficiently using the most advanced rating system in the industry, while also proactively mitigating the risks of our insureds. Ultimately, we provide businesses and professionals with frameworks to be the best versions of themselves. That’s where you come in. Counterpart is the place for people who want to build and use top-tier technology to improve insurance products and outcomes for small businesses. You will own real problems, work alongside the future leaders of this industry, and help build a company defining a category. As member of the Claims team, you will be one of the initial users of, and key feedback providers for, our active claims management processes and systems. Your input will help to shape and improve how we fulfill our mission of providing world-class service through tightly managing legal costs, making data-driven decisions when analyzing a claim’s value, and ensuring that other potentially responsible parties pay their fair share. This will necessitate close collaboration with Claims leadership, our internal Data and Engineering teams, and our carrier partners. YOU WILL Complete accurate and timely investigations into the coverage, liability, and damages for each claim assigned to you. Actively manage each claim assigned to you in a way that produces the most timely and cost-effective resolution. Build and maintain positive and productive working relationships with internal and external customers, including policyholders, brokers, carrier partners, and Risk Engineers (underwriters). Direct and monitor assignments to experts and outside counsel, and hold those vendors accountable for meeting or exceeding our service standards.  Support our data collection efforts and models by effectively using the Counterpart claim system to fully and accurately capture critical details about each claim assigned to you. Identify and escalate insights into emerging claims trends across industries, geographies, and key business segments. Offer user-level feedback and insights to support the continuous improvement of our claim handling processes, guidelines, and systems. Ensure that every touchpoint with our insureds and brokers is representative of our brand, mission, and vision. YOU HAVE At least 5 years of professional experience, with at least 3 years of experience litigating or managing dental professional liability claims. Previous carrier experience is a plus. Bachelor’s degree required; law degree (J.D.) and professional designations (RPLU, AIC, etc.) highly preferred. Must possess all required state claim adjuster licenses, or be able to obtain them within 90 days of hire. Proven ability to work both independently on complex matters and collaboratively as a team player to assist others as needed. High level of personal initiative and leadership skills. Exceptional time management, problem solving and organizational skills. Comfort and skill operating in a paperless claims environment and using Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, etc.). Additional familiarity with Google Docs Editors suite is a plus. Willingness to use creative thinking and data-driven insights to overcome obstacles to resolution. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to succeed in a full remote workplace environment, and travel as necessary (approximately 10-15%). PEOPLE WHO THRIVE HERE: Entrepreneurial, willing to experiment, embrace new technology, try new things Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities. Change is normal and happens quickly at startups. You have experience experimenting, learning, and pivoting with your learnings. Take ownership of your projects, your deadlines, your functions, your calendar, your own destiny. People who thrive at a startup like ours have a bias toward action and documentation. Communicate directly and with clarity. Working cross-functionally is an essential part of any role at Counterpart. You’ll succeed by conjoining expectations with others and holding all accountable.  THE HARD PARTS: We're early, and that's not always comfortable. Counterpart is still a young company, which means some processes, tools, and norms are still being built in real time. You may encounter situations where the answer doesn't exist yet — and you'll be expected to help create it rather than wait for someone else to. The feedback culture is real. We mean it when we say speak boldly and honestly. That goes both ways — you'll be expected to give direct feedback and to receive it without defensiveness. If you've spent your career in environments where difficult conversations get softened or avoided, that adjustment can take time. Distributed work requires more intentionality. There's no office to drop by, no hallway conversation to clear up a misunderstanding. Staying connected, communicating proactively, and building relationships across a remote team takes real effort; it doesn't happen automatically here. We move fast and expect you to keep up. Counterpart operates with a bias toward action. Decisions get made quickly, priorities can shift, and we don't wait for perfect information. If you're used to slower, more deliberate organizational rhythms, the pace here can be a genuine adjustment. You're expected to own your outcomes. There's a high degree of autonomy here, which is a feature, but it also means there's no one looking over your shoulder to catch things before they become problems. The people who thrive take that ownership seriously and hold themselves accountable without being asked. WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH: Eric Marler, Head of Claims: An