Engineering Manager Employee at NEXT Insurance

Eilam Levitov

Engineering Manager

Eilam and his team are responsible for classifying and assessing the risk of the activities NEXT Insurance customers do.

“I was very impressed by how quickly I was able to contribute and deliver measurable value after I joined the team. Within my first two weeks on the job, I was assigned a project for the quarter and began working with colleagues across the organization.”
- Eilam

Tell us more about your job. What’s a typical day like in your role, and how does your work impact the company?: As a manager, I support my team and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to make sure we deliver our goals and enable NEXT Insurance to grow sustainably. As members of the Risk Engineering team, we’re NEXT Insurance’s gatekeepers: We are responsible to make sure the company can continue to support its growing customer base by assessing their risk profile and rewarding or penalizing accordingly.
What attracted you to work at NEXT Insurance? How did you know it would be a good fit?: NEXT Insurance has many attractive qualities I was looking for: It is an innovative company disrupting a complex and outdated industry; it makes people’s lives easier and supports small and medium businesses; the talent and values of the people I came to meet during the interview process impressed me; and finally, the company is in a stage of hyper growth and it is extremely successful.
Tell us about when you’ve felt most proud of your work or colleagues.: I was very impressed by how quickly I was able to contribute and deliver measurable value after I joined the team. Within my first two weeks on the job, I was assigned a project for the quarter and began working with colleagues across the organization to improve how we assess driver risk, consequently delivering one of the most impactful projects of that quarter.
What do you value most about your company’s or team’s culture? What sets it apart from other places you’ve worked?: I joined in February 2021 during COVID-19 pandemic, so I was onboarded completely remotely. Despite the difficulties of being onboarded remotely, the company and my team did a tremendous job of making me feel like I was part of a cohesive group of professionals working with a single objective: to disrupt the insurance industry, and provide our customers with the best experience they could ask for.
What is different about the way your company is using tech?: NEXT Insurance is first and foremost a tech company. It was built emphasizing the lean startup methodologies and it is part of its DNA: We build, measure, and learn. We come up with wild hypotheses and then build intricate systems to test them. Nothing is off limits.
What advice do you have for someone in your field applying to jobs at your company?: Here at NEXT Insurance’s engineering organization, we are detail oriented and look to hire individuals we like personally and respect professionally. Probably the best advice I could give is to be down to earth and a team player, and make sure you own your tools as you will be expected to know them from top to bottom.

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