As a proud Buffalonian, Christopher loves watching the Bills and Sabres. On workdays, however, he is laser focused on the needs of the trading relationships that he is responsible for. Read on to learn more about how he prioritizes his day and how he feels about the startup life.

With Joyn’s use of technology to power the team, it is important to have a team that understands the power of data and integrations. Tyler Heist joined the team as a Senior Data Engineer, and has been developing data models, building ELT processes, and partnering with our data scientists and engineers to solve unique business challenges.

As an Operations Specialist, Jimmy plays a crucial role in delivering Joyn’s one-of-a-kind experience to customers and brokers by ensuring that underwriters have what they need while helping to build process efficiencies and monitoring capabilities.

As a new member of Joyn’s underwriting team, Scott has already been able to provide insightful input into the continued enhancements to our platform. He feels that having a voice in the process after only being with the company for a short time is refreshing.

Caroline finds it interesting that no two days are alike at the startup. And she finds that having the opportunity to blur the lines of job titles and teams to work across the whole organization is a great learning opportunity.

Part of Christina’s role is to engage with Joyn’s Product, Underwriting, and Distribution Teams to continually improve ease of business both internally and externally by enhancing the company’s systems and processes. This is critical as delivering on Joyn’s mission of delivering a best-in-class insurance experience requires a fast, efficient, and streamlined approach that, for example, acknowledges every submission within 24 hours.

For Joyn, innovation goes far beyond inventing new methodologies ourselves or integrating innovative vendor technologies. It includes striking the right balance between integrating existing technologies versus building our own to create a holistic and intuitive tech ecosystem. And ultimately, making a strategic choice in being able to deliver on our core value propositions. Read on to learn more.

Fully virtual companies have to put in a much higher level of effort to create those strong and positive connections between team members. And at Joyn, our regular retreats and on-site opportunities have played an important role in our efforts to build culture over our first three years.

Before coming to Joyn, Duy worked in operations in the cryptocurrency industry, where he developed standard operating procedures, metric-based decisioning, and cross-functional analyses. He thrives in a startup environment where he feels that he can make a greater impact compared to a larger company.