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Head of Credit & Underwriting

New York, NYSan Francisco, CAFinance & AccountingOnsite8+ YOE
Summary

Own credit decisions, line sizing, underwriting systems, and portfolio risk management for a high-net-worth charge card. Requires 8+ years credit risk experience, SQL/Python proficiency, and hands-on model-building in fintech or major issuers.

About the role

What you'll actually do

  • Own line sizing end to end. Build dynamic limits that expand with payment behavior and cash flow, not static tiers.
  • Own the application and onboarding pipeline. Work directly with engineering to cut time-to-decision.
  • Build the Atlas Business underwriting engine. Entity-based decisioning from Secretary of State records, business credit bureaus, bank data, and industry risk.
  • Manage the credit facility. Partner with the VP of Finance on warehouse operations, covenant compliance, draw optimization, and lender reporting.
  • Own collections and loss mitigation. Build the early-warning systems, contact strategies, and recovery processes.
  • Build loss forecasting and CECL models.
  • Monitor the portfolio obsessively. Own the dashboards for risk visibility including concentration, delinquency aging, cohort and vintage performance.

What you bring

  • 8+ years in credit risk, ideally starting at a major issuer (Amex, Chase, Capital One, Citi, Discover) and then moving into an operating role at a high-growth fintech.
  • Write SQL and comfortable in Python or R. Built models, not just reviewed them.
  • Understand charge card economics specifically, not just revolving credit.
  • Worked with credit warehouse facilities: advance rates, eligibility, covenants, lender reporting.
  • Underwritten high-net-worth or affluent segments.
  • Built infrastructure at a startup. Comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and deciding with imperfect information.
  • Bachelor's in a quantitative field (statistics, economics, math, engineering, CS) or equivalent depth of experience.
Skills
SQLPythonRCredit RiskUnderwritingLine SizingLoss ForecastingCECL ModelingCredit FacilitiesData Analysis