Senior National Underwriter - Title Insurance Agency (Vice President)
Posted Oct 5, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about the largest multi-state or multi-site title transaction you've led. What made it hard?
What they are checking: Whether they have truly run high-profile national deals rather than supporting someone else who led them.
Tell me about a time you made a judgment call on a title risk that others disagreed with. How did it turn out?
What they are checking: Whether they can defend decisions with reasoning and also admit when the call should have been different.
How do you keep relationships strong with national underwriters and lenders while still saying no when you must?
What they are checking: Whether they protect the agency from bad risk without damaging the relationships that bring in repeat business.
What would you do
A sophisticated buyer's counsel sends a title objection letter demanding broad affirmative coverage on a known encroachment. How do you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they can negotiate firmly with skilled lawyers and price or decline risk on sound reasoning.
This is a growing agency inside a larger firm. How would you help build underwriting standards and train newer underwriters?
What they are checking: Whether a vice president level hire can raise the whole team's work rather than only their own files.
A closing is set for tomorrow and a mechanic's lien appears on an updated search. What are your options?
What they are checking: Whether they know practical tools like indemnities, escrows or bonding and can choose quickly under pressure.
About the work
How do you decide whether a risk sits inside your delegated authority or needs to go to the underwriter for approval?
What they are checking: Whether they respect authority limits, which protects the agency's relationship with its underwriting partners.
Walk me through your survey review. What survey issues lead you to refuse or limit an endorsement?
What they are checking: Whether they connect survey findings to specific coverage decisions instead of issuing endorsements by default.
How do you handle licensing and underwriting differences when one portfolio deal covers sites in several states?
What they are checking: Whether they understand state-by-state rules and only underwrite where Sightline holds the right licenses.
Which commercial endorsements do you issue most often, and when would you not issue a zoning or contiguity endorsement?
What they are checking: Whether they know the purpose and risk of common commercial endorsements in real detail.
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