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Director, Small Business Credit Underwriting

New York, New York, US💼 Full-time💰 $113,000–$113,000🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead manual underwriting execution and credit decision quality for a small business lending portfolio, personally adjudicating complex commercial exposures while scaling the team and partnering on automation.

Role type

Director, Small Business Credit Underwriting (Hands-on IC with People Management)

Builds

Small business lending portfolio decisions and credit policy frameworks

Domain

Fintech / Commercial Lending / Credit Risk

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Commercial credit underwriting, financial statement analysis, team leadership (5-10+), operations management, data analytics, credit policy development, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

AI/agentic tooling in underwriting, merchant cash advance, working capital, equipment finance, alternative data, model development partnership

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Own manual underwriting execution end-to-end (queue, quality, turnaround time), personally adjudicate complex commercial exposures, lead and coach a team of 8–10 underwriters, define and manage operating metrics, partner on codifying judgment into automated decisioning, contribute to credit policy development, improve underwriting workflow tooling

Seniority

Director, hands-on leadership

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