Head of Underwriting

Pylon
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Insurance & ActuarialSkills: ["Judgment","Process orientation","Quality orientation","Cross-functional collaboration","Systems thinking"]

Own mortgage underwriting domain expertise and guide how Pylon’s decisioning engine applies underwriting policies safely and consistently. Review complex or unsupported scenarios, translate expert judgment into requirements for Product and Engineering, and define controls, exceptions, QA, monitoring, overrides, and escalation mechanisms. Partner across Processing, Compliance, Capital Markets, Account Management, Product, and Engineering to improve credit quality while expanding automated decision coverage and measuring outcomes.

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Pylon
Pylon
21 hours ago

Head of Underwriting

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Job Summary

Own mortgage underwriting domain expertise and guide how Pylon’s decisioning engine applies underwriting policies safely and consistently. Review complex or unsupported scenarios, translate expert judgment into requirements for Product and Engineering, and define controls, exceptions, QA, monitoring, overrides, and escalation mechanisms. Partner across Processing, Compliance, Capital Markets, Account Management, Product, and Engineering to improve credit quality while expanding automated decision coverage and measuring outcomes.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Insurance & Actuarial
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own underwriting domain expertise, quality, policy interpretation, and exception handling.
  • •Review complex or unsupported scenarios and define how they should be handled going forward.
  • •Translate underwriting guidelines and expert judgment into requirements Product and Engineering can encode into the decisioning platform.
  • •Identify recurring conditions, reviews, and escalations to automate or eliminate.
  • •Establish QA, monitoring, override, and escalation mechanisms for automated decisions and build key performance metrics.

Key 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 with deep knowledge of underwriting guidelines, exceptions, and exception handling.
  • •Ability to make implicit domain expertise explicit and systematic, with strong process and quality orientation.
Experience:Mortgage underwritingWholesale lendingCredit underwritingLending
Skills:JudgmentProcess orientationQuality orientationCross-functional collaborationSystems thinking

Company Brief

Pylon
Pylon offers a developer platform providing hosted infrastructure and APIs to build, deploy, and manage backend services and third‑party integrations, reducing engineering overhead for teams building modern web and mobile applications.
Industry: API Platforms
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