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Pylon

Head of Underwriting

Pylon

. Own underwriting domain expertise, quality, policy interpretation, and exception handling .

Posted 10/20/2026full-timeUnited StatesLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive mortgage underwriting expertise, with a strong focus on quality, policy interpretation, and automation of decision-making processes. Capable of translating complex underwriting guidelines into actionable requirements for technical teams while maintaining high credit quality standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Mortgage Underwriting ExpertiseUnderwriting Leadership ExperienceScaled Wholesale Lending ExperienceCredit JudgmentProcess and Quality Orientation

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Hard Skills
Policy InterpretationException HandlingAutomated Decision QualityMetrics DevelopmentGuideline Coverage Expansion
Soft Skills
CollaborationCommunicationProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
Pylon's Decisioning Platform
Industry Keywords
Mortgage UnderwritingLoan ProcessingComplianceCapital Markets

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own underwriting domain expertise, quality, policy interpretation, and exception handling
  • Review complex or unsupported scenarios and define how they should be handled going forward
  • Translate underwriting guidelines and expert judgment into requirements Product and Engineering can encode into Pylon's Decisioning platform
  • Identify recurring conditions, reviews, and escalations that should be automated or eliminated
  • Establish QA, monitoring, override, and escalation mechanisms for automated decisions
  • Partner closely with Processing, Compliance, Capital Markets, Account Management, Product, and Engineering
  • Build metrics around automated decision coverage, manual-review rate, decision time, conditions, exceptions, overrides, and defects
  • Help expand product and guideline coverage without sacrificing credit quality
  • Bring underwriting judgment into Pylon's software-driven, real-time mortgage underwriting system
  • Help ensure human experts focus on genuinely difficult scenarios while improving automated decision quality

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Significant mortgage underwriting and underwriting-leadership experience
  • Strong preference for scaled wholesale lending experience
  • Experience operating at hundreds or thousands of loans per month
  • Excellent credit judgment and deep knowledge of underwriting guidelines and exceptions
  • Ability to make implicit domain expertise explicit and systematic
  • Strong process and quality orientation
  • Comfortable working directly with technical teams in a rapidly evolving environment