Sr. Associate, Credit (CPG Financing)

Bridge; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health coverage

401(k)

Job summary

Bridge is seeking a Sr. Associate to join the Credit & Underwriting team behind our AI-powered purchase order financing platform for growing CPG brands.

You will underwrite real transactions from day one on Bridge’s platform, working with brands selling into major retailers like Walmart and with Bridge’s senior leadership to deliver credit decisions that are faster and sharper than traditional lenders offer.

Qualifications

• 2 to 7 years of experience in commercial credit or related field with underwriting or portfolio analysis responsibility.
• Strong financial analysis and modeling skills, including cash flow and working capital dynamics.
• Curiosity about how models and automation improve credit decisions, with a hands-on approach to building them.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite PO finance opportunities on Bridge’s AI-powered platform, evaluating borrower financials, purchase orders, supplier terms, and end-buyer credit quality.
• Prepare AI-assisted credit memos and materials for credit committees with clear recommendations.
• Monitor portfolio performance using automated indicators and covenant tracking.
• Support draw and annual reviews and remediation on challenged credits.

Skills

Underwriting

Credit analysis

Financial modeling

Data analysis

AI in underwriting

Communication

Ownership mentality

Job description

Bridge exists to make capital access simpler for growing businesses. Backed by Citi, TTV Capital, US Bank, and Correlation Ventures, we closed nearly $1 billion in loans and partner with Fortune 500 retailers including Walmart. In August 2026 we announced a $500 million direct lending fund with LuminArx, purpose-built for CPG production financing.

About the role

Bridge is seeking a Sr. Associate to join the Credit & Underwriting team behind our purchase order financing activities serving growing CPG brands. You will underwrite real transactions from day one on Bridge’s AI-powered underwriting platform, working directly with brands selling into major retailers like Walmart and with Bridge’s senior leadership to deliver credit decisions that are faster, sharper, and better supported than anything traditional lenders offer.

This is not a role where you run someone else’s checklist. Bridge has built a modern underwriting platform where AI handles the manual work and the underwriter focuses on judgment. You will work live deals alongside senior credit leadership, then help make the platform smarter with every transaction. If you have commercial lending experience and find yourself frustrated by how much of underwriting still lives in static spreadsheets, this role was designed for you.

You will work closely with credit leadership, origination, product, and engineering.

Key responsibilities

Underwriting and credit analysis

• Work directly with growing CPG brands and Bridge senior leadership to deliver a best-in-class underwriting experience, from first conversation through credit decision.
• Underwrite PO finance opportunities on Bridge’s AI-powered platform, evaluating borrower financials, purchase orders, supplier terms, end-buyer credit quality, and margin resilience, with retailer data and models doing the heavy lifting.
• Prepare AI-assisted credit memos and supporting materials for credit committee, with clear, well-supported recommendations, and pressure test the platform’s outputs with an underwriter’s judgment.
• Run technology-driven diligence workflows, using AI and new data sources to process volumes of information that traditional lenders review by hand.
• Monitor portfolio performance through Bridge’s platform, using automated early warning indicators, covenant tracking, and borrowing base surveillance rather than manual reporting cycles.
• Analyze supply chain and repayment data across the portfolio, applying AI to surface signals at a scale manual review can’t match and flag emerging risks early.
• Support draw reviews, annual reviews, and remediation work on challenged credits.

AI, data, and platform

• Sit at the intersection of AI and underwriting: apply models, retailer transaction data, and supply chain data to sharpen credit analysis on every deal.
• Partner with product and engineering to test, refine, and improve Bridge’s scorecards, decisioning models, and AI workflows, bringing an underwriter’s eye to how they should work.
• Identify where manual steps in the underwriting process can be replaced by AI and automation, and help make it happen.
• Contribute to the feedback loops that turn each funded transaction into smarter models and better underwriting insight for the next one.

Team and stakeholders

• Support senior credit leadership in preparing materials for capital partners and internal reviews.
• Coordinate with Sales and Operations to keep deals moving through diligence, approval, and funding.
• Build fluency in Bridge’s credit policy and help keep documentation standards high across the book.

Qualifications and experience

• 2 to 7 years of experience in commercial credit, asset-based lending, factoring, trade finance, or specialty finance, with hands-on underwriting or portfolio analysis responsibility.
• Strong financial analysis and modeling skills, including comfort working through borrower financials, working capital dynamics, and cash conversion cycles.
• Genuine comfort working in and around data: you would rather query a dataset than skim a summary of it, and you notice when numbers don’t tie.
• Curiosity about how models, scorecards, and automation can improve credit decisions, and enthusiasm for helping build them rather than just using them.
• Exposure to CPG brands or suppliers selling to large retailers or national accounts is a plus.
• Experience with and a deep interest in leveraging the latest tools as they evolve, and putting them to work in real underwriting.
• Clear written communication, with the ability to distill complex credit analysis into concise, decision-ready memos.
• Ownership mentality and comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-growth environment where processes are still being built.
• Learn by building: underwrite real transactions while helping design the credit tools and processes of a new business line at a fast-growing fintech that has closed nearly $1 billion in fundings.
• Leverage game-changing partnerships: analyze growing CPG brands through Bridge’s partnerships with several Fortune 500 companies, including Walmart, using data and relationships that are difficult for traditional lenders to replicate.
• Build with serious capital:join a newly launched $500 million direct lending vehicle with LuminArx, built specifically to fund CPG production, and help stand up the credit process behind it.
• Work directly with leadership: sit close to senior credit decision makers and see how a credit program gets designed, defended, and scaled.
• Shape the product: bring an underwriter’s perspective to product and engineering as they build the tools that make PO financing faster, smarter, and more transparent.
• Redefine an entire category: help build a technology and data-driven model for PO finance that can become the new standard for how suppliers access working capital.
• Mission-driven environment: join a founder-led company backed by Citi, TTV Capital, US Bank, and Correlation Ventures, committed to making financing efficient, transparent, and accessible for growing businesses across the country.

Compensation and benefits

• Competitive base salary with annual performance bonus potential.
• Participation in the company stock option plan.
• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans, plus 401(k) with company contribution.