Director, Insurance Licensing & Compliance

At We Insure Group, we are passionate, driven, and purposeful in our mission to personalize protection at the right value. We believe in delivering tailored insurance solutions that meet each client’s unique needs, ensuring they feel confident and supported in every decision. As both a franchise platform and direct insurance provider, We Insure empowers like-minded entrepreneurs with the opportunity to own and operate successful agencies.

With over 200 locations across 35 states, we support our agency owners, customers, and carrier partners by enabling faster service, greater efficiency, better choices, and improved results. What sets us apart? We’re data-driven for better value and people led for better service. Our purpose is rooted in clarity, guidance, and long-term trust helping individuals and business owners make informed choices about their insurance coverage.

We're building something meaningful and looking for purpose-driven individuals to help lead the way.

We Insure is seeking a Director, Insurance Licensing & Compliance to build and lead the insurance licensing program across our corporate entities and producers, franchise entities and producers, and acquired agencies. This role will establish a reliable view of who and what is authorized to operate and will translate state requirements into practical, auditable workflows. The director will own licensing standards, verification, exceptions, regulatory filings, and the system of record.

Licensing status must be reflected in onboarding, system access, carrier appointment readiness, commissions, franchise expansion, and acquisition integration. The role will work closely with Franchise Operations, Carrier Relations, Human Resources, Finance, Technology and Data, M&A, and outside regulatory counsel. This is a hands‑on director and player-coach role. The successful candidate will personally resolve difficult filings and data issues while building repeatable processes, clear service levels, and a scalable operating model.

Franchisees remain responsible for their own licenses, filings, fees, continuing education, personnel, and submitted information; this role sets the standards, verifies compliance, and manages exceptions and escalation.

• Own the enterprise insurance licensing policy, operating procedures, responsibility matrix, control calendar, evidence standards, and exception process.
• Maintain a state-by-state requirements framework covering individual and business-entity licenses, lines of authority, designated responsible licensed producers, affiliations, continuing education, assumed names, branch or location rules, renewals, and required filings.
• Manage corporate applications, renewals, amendments, reinstatements, affiliations, responsible-producer changes, address and officer updates, assumed names, and related filings. Verify required authority before production access, licensed activity, or licensing-dependent compensation, and coordinate prompt offboarding when authority ends.
• Define and monitor licensing requirements for franchise onboarding, renewals, ownership changes, transfers, producer additions, relocations, terminations, and expansion. Manage deficiencies, cure periods, approved exceptions, and contractual escalation while preserving each franchisee's independent obligations.
• Establish the licensing prerequisites and evidence required before Carrier Relations submits appointments or grants market access, and reconcile licensing, appointment, carrier portal, and internal producer records.
• Own licensing-related annual and periodic filings, regulatory inquiries, examination support, document production, remediation plans, and management responses; escape novel or material…