Overview
This role provides title insurance underwriting expertise to multidisciplinary product teams building technology products that involve or affect title insurance policies or underwriting processes. You will help identify and manage title insurance risk and provide subject matter expertise in title insurance law, title insurance coverage, real estate conveyancing law, and real estate transaction pathways. You will collaborate with transactional underwriters, and coordinate with Legal Department stakeholders responsible for matters outside title insurance coverage.
Responsibilities
- Lead underwriting vision and strategy for a technology or AI-enabled product or product line, including tools that support underwriting decision-making, risk evaluation, and operational efficiency.
- Identify, evaluate, communicate, and manage title insurance, regulatory, operational, and model-related risk associated with a technology or AI-enabled underwriting tool.
- Provide subject matter expertise in underwriting, title insurance, real estate conveyancing, and underwriting workflow to product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and data science/AI teams.
- Partner with product, engineering, and data science teams to design and deploy AI-assisted underwriting tools and workflows.
- Collaborate with legal, compliance, information security, and risk management stakeholders to support responsible and compliant use of AI technologies.
- Serve as a strategic liaison between transaction underwriters and technology teams to ensure AI-enabled products align with real-world underwriting practices.
- Hold a leadership role in product strategy discussions.
- Interface with stakeholders in other departments and help clear roadblocks to product success.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of market dynamics, competitive threats, and competitive advantages.
- Translate complex title insurance and real estate concepts into clear ideas that influence product strategy.
- Translate complex technology product concepts into clear ideas that influence transaction underwriting protocol.
- Execute tasks and assignments on the product roadmap.
- Partner with product managers to drive product evolution and priorities.
- Mentor and train more junior product underwriting counsel.
- Contribute to the development and advancement of product underwriting principles across the enterprise.
Requirements
- Law degree required.
- Admitted to law practice in manner appropriate for the position and location.
- 3-5 years of experience as product underwriting counsel; or 7-10 years of title underwriting or real estate law practice experience and demonstrated aptitude for the position.
- Understanding of AI-assisted workflows, generative AI tools, machine learning concepts, and automation technologies relevant to underwriting and real estate transactions.
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy, explainability, consistency, and underwriting applicability.
- Superior verbal and visual communication skills.
- Superior understanding of land titles, real estate law, and conveyancing process.
- Superior understanding of federal and state laws related to title insurance and settlement services.
- Demonstrated curiosity and adaptability regarding emerging technologies and digital transformation.
- Strong business acumen and strategic agility that influences outcomes and successfully negotiates for resources.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex concepts across the organization and to large audiences.
- Successful track record of designing, developing, and executing complex projects.
Compensation & Benefits
- Pay Range: $129,300.00 - $172,300.00 Annually
- Benefits (based on eligibility): medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave, employee stock purchase plan, and other benefits.
Location
- Note: The following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County.
Equal Employment & Criminal History Review (Los Angeles County notice)
- The organization will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
- The organization intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer.
- The organization reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with material job duties for this position, potentially resulting in withdrawal of the conditional offer, including duties involving handling confidential, proprietary or trade secret information; administering or facilitating financial transactions; and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.