Financial Professional

Overview

Are you a leader who has the following traits?

• Self-disciplined

If the answer is yes, consider becoming an insurance agent to drive positive impact in the lives of families every day. At New York Life, you’re in control of your career journey. Backed by a Fortune 100 company that is a leader in the financial services industry, New York Life will invest in you from the start, training you in valuable skills such as marketing, customer relationship management (CRM) and communication, and providing you with a development team and sales support to guide your success.

We’re looking for people who want to make a lasting impact on the financial well-being of individuals, families, and small businesses. This is not just a sales job—it’s a career with purpose and opportunity. You’ll provide peace of mind to your clients while helping them navigate challenges such as preparing for retirement and saving for college. As an insurance agent, you will have the opportunity to see the positive impact of your work for years to come.

You will grow personally and professionally along with your clients.

We’ll equip you with a multifaceted approach that includes an industry-leading learning platform, personalized coaching from dedicated training professionals, and the ability to obtain industry professional designations. We subsidize training in the first two full-time contract years and may provide you with additional funds to help you complete our training program and grow your business. You’ll also be eligible to receive rewards and acknowledged with sales incentives and professional-development trips for top-performing insurance agents.

Beyond this training and support, New York Life will equip you with the tools you need to succeed day-to-day, including access to experts and a suite of digital sales, prospecting, and marketing tools that help you attract and retain clients with web, social, and email content.

Together with its subsidiaries, New York Life provides a range of products, including life insurance, annuities, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, and investment products such as mutual funds through our broker-dealer arm, NYLIFE Securities LLC (member of FINRA and SIPC), a Licensed Insurance Agency, ensuring that the solutions you develop with your clients can help them and their families achieve their financial goals.

You’ll also be able to specialize and gain expertise in different areas, such as by becoming a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies LLC, our investment advisory division, to offer wealth management and advisory services, estate planning strategies, and business solutions.

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a strong team with peer-to-peer support options like study groups, mentorship, and other opportunities to engage with your fellow insurance agents. You have the power to determine your own income with our commission-based compensation. In 2023, the average income of agents under the N8 and N9 Agent contracts who met annual minimum sales production requirements was $117,359.

Individual agent performance will determine your income. Benefits for full-time agents include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, as well as a 401(k) and pension. For more information about commission-based income and benefits for financial professionals, please follow the official NYL career materials.

New York Life is a Fortune 100 company with a long history of doing good. We have been in business for over 175 years, helping generations of citizens protect their families and attain their financial goals. As a mutual company, we are accountable only to our policyholders, not to Wall Street or outside investors. We are focused on the long-term success of our clients.

We’re proud of our financial strength:

• AAA Exceptionally Strong (Fitch)
• Aaa Exceptional (Moody’s)
• AA+ Very Strong (Standard & Poor’s)

We’re proud of the help we’ve provided and continue to provide our clients.

New York Life is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

• Seniority level:
  Not Applicable

• Employment type:
  
  Full-time

• Job function:
  Sales and Business Development
• Industries:
  Financial Services and Insurance

New York Life is expanding opportunities for financial professionals and invites qualified applicants to apply.