Underwriting & Compliance Counsel

Position Overview: As Underwriting & Compliance Counsel, you will play a critical leadership role supporting a multi-state title insurance company and its affiliated agencies. This role blends legal, operational, and regulatory responsibilities: you will act as a title underwriting resource, oversee compliance and licensing functions, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure that the company remains in good standing with all applicable regulatory bodies. You will serve as a strategic advisor and hands-on contributor across underwriting, licensing, and insurance compliance. What You’ll Do: Underwriting & Title Operations • Serve as a title expert and key legal advisor to operations, sales, and client engagement teams for title commitments and policy issuance. • Provide practical, solutions-oriented guidance on complex or novel title and closing issues. • Interpret and apply underwriting standards and guidelines to support consistent, risk-based decisions. • Deliver training to internal teams on title risk, compliance, fraud prevention, and legal/regulatory changes. • Lead a team of title officers, managing quality, turnaround time, and adherence to service-level standards. • Oversee title search operations, including vendor management, quality control, and process improvement. • Oversee Underwriter audits to ensure compliance with all applicable standards. Licensing & Compliance Oversight • Manage outside vendors that lead companywide licensing functions for individual agents and agency entities, including new applications, renewals, appointments, affiliations, and terminations. • Maintain Designated Licensed Producer (DLP) relationships and ensure accurate, up-to-date records across internal systems and regulatory filings. • Monitor and document state-specific licensing and appointment requirements; ensure full DOI compliance. Statutory & Regulatory Compliance • Manage outside vendors to ensure timely and accurate statutory filings for the title insurance company and affiliated agencies across 35+ states. • Submit required filings through the NAIC and directly with state insurance departments. • Oversee secretary of state corporate filings for all company entities (insurance and non-insurance). • Coordinate responses to regulatory data calls and manage submission to relevant authorities. • Support regulatory examinations and DOI inquiries by gathering and organizing required documentation.