Senior Product Underwriting Counsel

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🌵 Arizona, California, +1 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $129.3k - $172.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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First American

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1889

🏠 Real Estate

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Real Estate • Finance • Enterprise

First American is a historical company that has been operating since 1889, evolving into a $9 billion organization with over 20,000 employees and more than 700 offices worldwide. The company provides a range of products and services that assist homebuyers, sellers, businesses, and investors in the real estate market. With a strong focus on employee engagement and culture, First American emphasizes innovation, technology, and community involvement, driving transformation within the real estate industry.

📋 Description

• Leads underwriting vision and strategy for a technology or AI-enabled product or product line • 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401k • PTO/paid sick leave • Employee stock purchase plan