Senior Product Underwriting Counsel - AI-Driven Real Estate

First American; Santa Ana (CA); Remote; USD 129.000 - 172.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, dental, vision

401k

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Zusammenfassung

First American seeks an experienced Product Underwriting Counsel to lead AI-enabled underwriting strategies and manage title insurance risk across technology-driven products. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to design workflows and ensure regulatory compliance in real estate transactions.

Applicants should have a law degree, active bar admission, and substantial experience in title underwriting or real estate law, with strong communication and leadership

Qualifikationen

• 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 keen ability to explain complex concepts across the organization and to large audiences.
• Successful track record of designing, developing, and executing complex projects.

Aufgaben

• Leads underwriting vision and strategy for a technology or AI-enabled product or product line, including tools that augment underwriting decision-making, risk evaluation, and operational efficiency.
• Identifies, evaluates, communicates, and manages title insurance, regulatory, operational, and model-related risk associated with a technology or AI-enabled underwriting tool.
• Provides underwriting, title insurance, real estate conveyancing, and underwriting workflow subject matter expertise to product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and data science/AI teams.
• Partners with product, engineering, and data science teams to design and deploy AI-assisted underwriting tools and workflows.
• Collaborates with legal, compliance, information security, and risk management stakeholders to support responsible and compliant use of AI technologies.
• Serves as a strategic liaison between transaction underwriters and technology teams to ensure AI-enabled products align with real-world underwriting practices.
• Holds a leadership role in product strategy discussions.
• Interfaces with stakeholders in other departments and helps clear roadblocks to product success.
• Demonstrates deep knowledge of market dynamics, competitive threats, and competitive advantages.
• Translates complex title insurance and real estate concepts into clear ideas accessible to product team members in ways that influence product strategy.
• Translates complex technology product concepts into clear ideas accessible to transaction underwriters in ways that influence transaction underwriting protocol.
• Executes tasks and assignments on the product roadmap.
• Partners with product manager to drive product evolution and priorities.
• Mentors and trains more junior product underwriting counsel.
• Contributes to the development and advancement of product underwriting principles throughout the enterprise.

Kenntnisse

Legal analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Verbal communication

Understanding AI workflows

Underwriting knowledge

Ausbildung

Juris Doctor (Law Degree)

Jobbeschreibung

First American seeks an experienced Product Underwriting Counsel to lead AI-enabled underwriting strategies and manage title insurance risk across technology-driven products. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to design workflows and ensure regulatory compliance in real estate transactions.

Applicants should have a law degree, active bar admission, and substantial experience in title underwriting or real estate law, with strong communication and leadership