Product Manager, Underwriting Specialist, CoStar Debt Solutions

CoStar; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

401(K) retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

On-site fitness center

Complimentary snacks and beverages

Job summary

CoStar is looking for a Product Manager, Underwriting Specialist in Boston to lead the development of a cutting-edge underwriting platform. This role focuses on converting underwriting scenarios into actionable product features that benefit originators and credit officers.

The successful candidate will possess a strong background in CRE underwriting and a commitment to driving products that enhance decision-making workflows within financial services. The environment is collaborative, with ample opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in CRE underwriting, credit, or originations.
• Ability to translate underwriting judgment into actionable product decisions.
• Demonstrated commitment to prior employers.

Responsibilities

• Own underwriting workflows and help turn scenarios into product.
• Enhance platform behaviors based on underwriting instincts.
• Develop relationships with design partners at banks and sponsors.
• Contribute to the roadmap for underwriting functionalities.

Skills

Real CRE underwriting domain experience

Understanding of underwriting workflows

Judgment on what should be automated

Tech fluency

Experience with product teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit university

Job description

Job Description

CoStar Debt Solutions is building a new platform for CRE underwriting — one where credit officers, data pipelines, and AI agents work against the same shared data model. Banks, sponsors, and asset managers query, write, and collaborate on the same underlying system.

Product Manager, Underwriting Specialist

Location: Boston, in-office

We’re hiring a Product Manager, Underwriting Specialist to help us build a world‑class underwriting platform — the workflows, defaults, and decisions that decide whether a credit officer or originator reaches for our product first thing in the morning. In year one, that means partnering with our senior product team to turn underwriting scenarios into product: capital stack construction, rent roll injection, peer benchmarking, portfolio surveillance, deal counterparty visibility. Over time, it means taking on more of the surface yourself — across asset classes, customer types, and the agent workflows that increasingly run alongside the human ones.

The work starts with the underwriting judgment you’ve built. It ends with that judgment encoded into a system other underwriters run against.

What You’ll Work On

• The underwriting workflows across the product surface — capital stack construction, rent roll ingestion, peer benchmarking, portfolio surveillance, deal counterparty visibility. These exist today as scenarios; the work is helping turn them into product that originators and credit officers reach for daily. You’ll start by owning pieces and grow into owning more.
• The default behaviors that decide whether the platform feels expert or generic — the stack heuristics the LLM proposes, the way variance gets sorted, what the system asks vs. assumes, when it surfaces uncertainty, what stays in front of a human. You’ll bring your underwriting instinct to these decisions and learn to translate it into product defaults alongside the senior PM.
• Design‑partner relationships at two or three banks and sponsors. You will be on the calls, in the deals, and part of the team they trust to translate what they need into what gets built.
• The boundary between “the platform can model this” and “the workflow should expose this” — working directly with engineering and product on where the line gets drawn for each new capability.
• Contribution to the roadmap for the underwriting surface as it grows — new asset classes, new customer profiles, new agent‑driven workflows that sit alongside the human ones. You’ll bring proposals, defend them, and see them ship.

Basic Qualifications

• Real CRE underwriting domain experience.
• 3 or more years in a CRE underwriting, credit, or originations role with real deal reps — whether your title is Underwriter, Credit Analyst, Credit Officer, Acquisitions Associate, or something adjacent. Bank, sponsor‑side, life co, debt fund, agency, or advisory backgrounds all work if the depth is there. Domain is the highest bar for this role — it’s what we can’t substitute for.
• A working model of how originators, credit officers, asset managers, and sponsors actually spend their days — not just the artifacts they produce, but the friction between them.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not‑for‑profit, in‑person university or college.
• A track record of commitment to prior employers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Sharp judgment about what’s worth automating, what needs human‑in‑the‑loop, and what should never leave a credit committee.
• A bias for being specific. Generic underwriting opinions are not useful here. We need someone who can say "the LLM should not propose mezz above 12% in this market without flagging it" and be right about it.

What Helps a Lot

• Tech fluency. You don’t write production code, but you’re willing to read a schema, reason about software as a system, and learn to argue with the model when it’s wrong. Any prior exposure to working with product or engineering teams is a plus.
• Product instinct. A growing sense for what belongs in a default, what belongs in a setting, what belongs in a warning, and what belongs nowhere at all. Underwriters who’ve built or improved internal tools — spreadsheets, models, templates — tend to develop this fast.
• Comfort with LLM‑driven workflows. You don’t need to have built with them. You do need to find the question of "what should the model decide vs. ask vs. flag" genuinely interesting.

The Growth Path

The first year is learning‑heavy: real workflows, real design partners, real deals informing real shipping decisions. You’ll work closely with a senior PM and engineers who’ve built this kind of system before, and you’ll be expected to bring your underwriting judgment to every product call. Over time, as you build product muscle on top of the domain knowledge you already have, the role grows from “contribute to these workflows” into “own pieces of the underwriting platform” — defaults, asset classes, the line between what the model decides, what it asks, and what it escalates. The person who grows into this role is the one whose judgment ends up shaping how a market underwrites.

What’s Unusual About This Role

You will not be the underwriter of record on anything. You’ll be on the product side of the table, helping decide what the platform knows and does on behalf of the underwriters who use it. That is a different job from being an underwriter — more leverage, more abstraction, and more responsibility for the second‑order effects of the workflows you ship. If you’re early in your CRE career and want to keep doing deals, this is the wrong move. If you want to take the underwriting instinct you’ve built so far and encode it into a system that other underwriters will run against, this is the right place to do that.

What’s In It For You?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance‑based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Our Benefits Package Includes (but Is Not Limited To)

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical, Vision, Dental, Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in‑person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On‑site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

This position offers an annual base salary range of $99,000 - $133,000, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full‑time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre‑employment substance abuse testing.