Director of Product, AI Underwriting

ARIVE, a mortgage fintech platform, is seeking a Director of Product for AI Underwriting to own the governance and validation of its AI-driven underwriting engine. This is a rules-and-compliance role at the center of automated mortgage decisioning: the director reviews, tests, and verifies ARIVE's AI underwriting rules against the agency guides and each investor's guidelines and overlays, approves rules before release, and re-verifies them as guidelines change. The role verifies the AI agents' autonomous actions with the same rigor expected of a senior human underwriter, ensuring every automated issue resolution is correct and guideline-compliant. It works directly with lender credit and underwriting teams, and with the agencies where applicable, to confirm rule accuracy, reconcile interpretation differences, and maintain lender-specific rule sets as the source of truth. The director owns Pre-Underwrite outputs end to end, including audit findings, checklists, conditions, and the agents' autonomous issue resolutions, triaging errors and driving root-cause fixes. The work also includes reviewing prompts, reasoning about agent behavior, and contributing to model and agent