Insurance recruiters working the New York City market.
Contingency search for underwriters, brokers, account executives, and claims professionals across New York City's commercial, specialty, and reinsurance insurance business — one of the largest and most competitive insurance markets in the country. No retainer, no fee until we deliver a hire.
A commercial, specialty, and reinsurance market — not a carrier-headquarters town
New York City's insurance economy runs on a fundamentally different structure than a legacy carrier-headquarters market like Hartford. Rather than a concentration of long-tenured carrier-side underwriting and claims staff built up around a handful of hometown insurers, New York's talent pool centers on brokerage, wholesale and excess & surplus (E&S) specialty placement, and reinsurance intermediation for large national and global accounts. AIG remains headquartered in Manhattan at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, and Marsh McLennan — parent of Marsh, the reinsurance intermediary Guy Carpenter, and Mercer — is headquartered a few blocks away at 1166 Avenue of the Americas. Around firms like these sits a dense layer of wholesale brokers and MGAs that place London-market-adjacent specialty and E&S business out of New York offices, without New York itself being a Lloyd's or London-market location.
For hiring, that structure changes who you're actually competing for. Instead of agency-side producers and CSRs moving between a small set of regional carriers, the strongest candidates in this market are commercial and specialty underwriters, brokers, claims professionals, and reinsurance analysts who serve large corporate and multinational accounts — and who sit inside a broader New York financial-services labor market that pays well beyond typical insurance benchmarks. That makes sourcing here look more like competing with the wider finance sector for talent than out-recruiting a handful of local carriers.
Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, via the Northeast Information Office's New York City Economic Summary.
Not a local staffing agency — a national search firm that treats New York City as its own market
We don't have a New York City office, and we're not trying to be a generalist local shop. Arogom Insurance is a contingency search firm that works this market for independent agencies, brokerages, and specialty and E&S shops alike — our recruiters build candidate pipelines specifically for New York City and the surrounding tri-state insurance corridor, the same way they do for every other market we work.
- New York City-metro searches for agencies, brokerages, and specialty shops, start to finish
- No retainer, no upfront fee — pay only on a hire
- Candidates qualified against your book of business before you see them
Built for New York City's commercial, specialty, and reinsurance market
Have an open role at a New York City-area agency or brokerage?
Contingency recruiting — you only pay when we deliver a hire.
New York City & the tri-state insurance market, specifically
Do you have an office in New York City?
No — Arogom Insurance is a national contingency search firm, not a local staffing agency. Our recruiters work the New York City market specifically; we're just not tied to a single metro's candidate pool the way a local shop is.
What's different about hiring insurance talent in New York City versus a market like Hartford?
Hartford's insurance economy is built around long-tenured carrier headquarters and a deep bench of career underwriting and claims staff. New York City's is built around brokerage, specialty and excess & surplus (E&S) placement, and reinsurance intermediation for large commercial and global accounts — so the strongest candidates here tend to be brokers, specialty underwriters, and reinsurance professionals used to serving national and multinational clients, not primarily agency-side producers.
Do you cover the wider New York City insurance market, not just Manhattan?
Yes. We treat Greater New York City as one market — Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, plus the close-in New Jersey and Fairfield County, CT insurance corridor that shares the same commuting and candidate pool — and we search across all of it.
Do you only recruit for independent agencies, or also brokerages and specialty shops?
Both. New York City's market runs heavily through large brokerages, wholesale and MGA specialty shops, and reinsurance intermediaries as well as independent agencies, so our searches here cover all of those employer types.
Do you charge a retainer?
No. Arogom Insurance is contingency-only — there's no retainer and no upfront cost. You only pay a fee if you hire someone we source.
How do I start a search?
Email hello@arogom.com with the role, company, and your timeline, or use the request button on this page — we'll follow up directly.
