As our Global Operations Commercial Underwriting Counsel, you’ll be a go-to underwriting leader on a high performing title production team responsible for delivering best-in-industry commercial production services. You will operate with aligned autonomy – given the freedom to make high-impact decisions while owning every outcome. With grit and the steadfast support of our team, you will overcome significant challenges to deliver exceptional value to our customers. Growth, achievement, and shaping the future of First American is not just possible, it’s expected.
What You'll Do:
- Execute our strategic vision to deliver best-in-industry commercial title production services with cutting edge technology and a world class team.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the country to help navigate commercial title production challenges and identify innovative solutions that balance risk and business opportunity.
- Advise leaders on strategy regarding centralized title production for commercial real estate transactions.
- Shepherd the development of our 21st-century underwriting talent, growing the skills of teammates, and serving as a talent magnet to attract more A level people to the First American team.
What You'll Bring:
- 8+ years of national commercial title underwriting (multi-region experience strongly preferred).
- Bachelor's degree, Law degree required.
- Excellent ability to build relationships, generate empathy, and create rapport across a variety of different constituencies.
- Demonstrated leadership ability grounded in ownership and accountability.
- The ability to actively listen, communicate clearly and persuasively, and consider the viewpoints and objectives of the diverse business organization we support.
- An expert-level understanding of the fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of commercial real estate transactions, title insurance, and settlement services.
- Comfort in evaluating commercial real estate title production and underwriting issues in a multitude of jurisdictions.
- Drive to be constantly upskilling and learning in areas relevant to the intersection of title insurance, commercial real estate, and technology.
- Intellectual curiosity and the will to challenge the status quo.
- The capacity to address problems using AI and an eagerness to engage with emerging technologies.
Note: Brief cover letter recommended with application.
Pay Range: $145,000.00 - $212,657.00 annually
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
What We OfferBy choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **
First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).
First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.
Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.Similar Jobs
What We Do
First American provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. The First American Family of Companies’ core business lines include title insurance and closing/settlement services; title plant management services; title and other real property records and images; valuation products and services; home warranty products; property and casualty insurance; and banking, trust, and investment advisory services.
First American Title Insurance Company provides comprehensive title insurance protection and professional settlement services for homebuyers and sellers, real estate agents and brokers, mortgage lenders, commercial property professionals, homebuilders and developers, title agencies and legal professionals to facilitate real estate purchases, construction, refinances or equity loans.
First American's thorough title searches, title clearance and title insurance policies help to produce clear property titles and enable the efficient transfer of real estate.
As one of the largest title insurance companies in the nation, First American offers title insurance and settlement services through its direct operations and an extensive network of agents throughout the United States and internationally.
First American Title Insurance Company traces its history to 1889 and is the largest subsidiary of First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF).
