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.