ARU Insurance Internship (Summer 2026)

Chapel Hill, NC
Internship to Full Time
Student (College)

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Jump-Start your Career with a Paid Internship!

ARU is a company built on PEOPLE who are committed to being subject matter experts and operating with disciplined precision for our policyholders. ARU wants to share our expertise and knowledge to support the next generation of insurance professionals. We want to grow YOU!

We provide participants with exposure to the specialty insurance industry and an opportunity for those who excel in the program, the opportunity for full-time employment at ARU or another Accelerant Holdings affiliate.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

  • Class of 2026 or 2027
  • Comfortable with experimentation, feedback, and eager to learn!
  • Detail-oriented, yet fast-moving
  • Team-oriented, open-minded, and thoughtful problem-solvers

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

  • Spend time learning in both a classroom, real-life exercises, and field experience.  
  • Be challenged to work on actual business cases (in both group and individual work)
  • Gain exposure to industry professionals through rotating section instructors in the following areas:
    • Accounting, Biling & Finance
    • Actuarial, Rate-making, and Product Development 
    • Distribution 
    • Fundamentals of insurance, insurance types, and insurance use cases 
    • GIS & Modeling 
    • Legal and the Insurance Contract 
    • Operations 
    • Policy life cycle 
    • Regulatory & Compliance 
    • Reinsurance 
    • Technology, Policy Admin Systems, and other Information Systems 
    • Underwriting, Claims, and Loss Control
 

CEO, Will Johnson:

"I started ARU in 2016 at ground zero, with zero customers, zero revenue, and one big foundational idea:  other market participants were operating fundamentally flawed models that were not sustainable. A completely new approach was needed -- an approach that looked ahead instead of backward and was based on the best available science, data, and technology.  Fast forward to today, and the evidence suggests my original assessments were right on point. Not only has the overall property insurance market been reeling due to years of under-pricing and insufficient risk assessment practices, but many of ARU’s competitors' unsustainable practices have caught up to them, and they have been forced to leave the space outright. Meanwhile, ARU is strong, thriving, and growing."

"This inaugural paid internship at ARU aims to attract the most qualified candidates and offer an unmatched internship experience - finding talent of the future starts today!"

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WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

  • Be onsite and in-person, at Innovation Junction in Chapel Hill, NC (just off UNC campus).
  • Class of 2026 or 2027
  • Ability to work 30 hours per week for 10 weeks (May - August 2026) 
  • Demonstrate a genuine interest in exploring professional opportunities in the Property & Casualty insurance industry
  • Identify with the following characteristics:
    • Curious and open-minded
    • Passionate about learning and self-improvement
    • Conscientiousness and self-organized

 
WHY ARU?

We demand excellence from ourselves and those around us; we work accurately and thoroughly, but also with a great sense of urgency; we are excellent critical thinkers and creative problem solvers; we contribute cheerfully to ARU’s environment of collaborative brainstorming and respectful debate; we love to explore and experiment, and we are comfortable occasionally blazing a trail that ends up being a “bridge to nowhere” -- just as long as we fail fast, pivot appropriately, and become tougher and smarter as a result; we love to learn, read, and grow as human beings; we believe in science-based truths, and we know there is no such thing as an alternative fact.

ARU was founded on principles of creativity and innovation to use expertise, engineering, and technology to disrupt the legacy marketplace. Our core mission is to deliver a superior experience to our policyholders while also maintaining sustainability and consistency in writing historically challenging classes of business. To do so, we build and deploy 100% proprietary insurance products, we invest heavily in property loss prevention engineering and research, and we develop home-grown software and other technology. We also focus on collaborative broker and policyholder relationships, which allow us to deliver shared victories for all stakeholders. ARU is part of the Accelerant Insurance family:  https://accelins.com/

ARU is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

​For application assistance, please contact [email protected]








 

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