Head of Underwriting

Pylon
New York, NY
Category Finance
Job Description
Role Overview

Pylon is building software-driven, real-time mortgage underwriting. As Head of Underwriting, you will bring the judgment of a world-class underwriting organization into the system.

What You Will Do

Own underwriting domain expertise, quality, policy interpretation, and exception handling. Translate underwriting guidelines and expert judgment into requirements for Pylon's Decisioning platform.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will own the domain expertise, controls, exceptions, quality, and feedback loops that let Pylon safely automate more underwriting over time.

Requirements

  • Significant mortgage underwriting and underwriting-leadership experience
  • Strong preference for scaled wholesale lending experience
  • Experience operating at hundreds or thousands of loans per month
  • Excellent credit judgment and deep knowledge of underwriting guidelines and exceptions
  • Ability to make implicit domain expertise explicit and systematic
  • Strong process and quality orientation
  • Comfortable working directly with technical teams in a rapidly evolving environment

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Opportunity to work on a rapidly evolving mortgage platform
  • Chance to build a team and develop leaders
  • Stock options
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) match
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
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