Lead Credit Architect & Underwriting Leader

Endeavor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Endeavor is seeking a Credit Leader to own and scale our credit risk framework within healthcare financing. You will design underwriting models, build data pipelines, and establish partnerships with lender partners to optimize approval rates and MDR economics.

You will own the end-to-end credit capability, from policy formation to platform integration, driving measurable business outcomes and expanding coverage across the FICO spectrum.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in credit risk, underwriting, or risk modeling in consumer lending, fintech, or healthcare finance.
• Deep experience building or improving risk models using credit data to drive business outcomes.
• Fluency in the consumer lending stack: FICO scoring, alternative data, bureau pulls, waterfall logic, MDR/pricing economics.
• Comfortable working with lender partners on data-sharing agreements and underwriting criteria.
• Analytical and hands-on: can write SQL, interpret model outputs, and present findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Startup mentality: you build it, you do not wait for a team to form around you.
• Experience in medical, dental, or point-of-sale lending is a meaningful plus.

Responsibilities

• Assess gaps in Endeavor's financing coverage across the FICO spectrum and identify where patients are falling out of the funnel without a matching offer.
• Build and lead Endeavor's underwriting infrastructure — developing the models, data pipelines, and lender feedback loops that power credit decisions at the point of care.
• Design and manage a structured data-sharing framework with Endeavor's lender partners, enabling smarter waterfall placement, higher approval rates, and tighter MDR economics.
• Evaluate lender performance on credit quality, coverage breadth, and approval rates — and surface actionable insights to leadership and lender partners.
• Partner with the Head of Lending and CTO to embed credit intelligence directly into the Endeavor platform and patient application experience.
• Define risk policies and underwriting guidelines as Endeavor expands into healthcare verticals beyond dental.
• Identify and evaluate new lender partners that fill coverage gaps, particularly for near-prime and sub-prime patients where current rejection rates are highest.

Skills

Credit risk

Risk modeling

SQL

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Tools

SQL

Job description

Endeavor is seeking a Credit Leader to own and scale our credit risk framework within healthcare financing. You will design underwriting models, build data pipelines, and establish partnerships with lender partners to optimize approval rates and MDR economics.

You will own the end-to-end credit capability, from policy formation to platform integration, driving measurable business outcomes and expanding coverage across the FICO spectrum.