Underwriting Lead

🎯 Why we exist

We’re on a mission to improve the reliability, transparency, and efficiency of our energy systems, fostering a future with sustainable and abundant energy. To accomplish our aims, we’re leveraging state of the art statistical learning and convex optimization methods (AI) to build the financial rails of our future energy systems that will accelerate the deployment of clean energy resources.

We envision energy systems that are efficient, autonomous, resilient, and powered by 100% renewable energy.

🧗 Who we are

Our founders (ex-Apple, Bluevine; ex-Affirm, Square, Google) are Stanford alumni with experience in complex systems, machine learning and structured finance. Our world-class investors, Maverick Ventures and Caffeinated Capital, are aligned to our policy objectives and platform vision.

We're headquartered in New York City, with a flexible approach to remote work.

The Role

Comity is looking for an Underwriting Lead to advance the execution of our platform vision. In this role, you will

• underwrite energy market participants to infer default probability distributions for performance insurance products

• design and implement a growth-ready underwriting operation tailored to energy market participants

• drive the development of an AI-powered system to support the efficient scaling of our underwriting frameworks by partnering with our software engineering team

As an early hire in this role, you’ll have broad impact over our path to scale.

We’re excited about you because

• You have 12+ years as an underwriter with demonstrated expertise in energy risks and a proven track record of establishing efficient underwriting operations that leverage data analytics and software in fast-paced environments. Knowledge of performance and/or trade credit products is considered a plus.

• Thrive under ambiguity: You enjoy synthesizing a significant number of information threads to a well-structured and defended plan.

• Relentless: You aren’t discouraged by obstacles or the challenges of moving from 0 to 1.

• Highly analytical: You have a keen sense for how to break ambiguous problems into 'knowable' components, and you're adept at quickly navigating analytical question and answer pairs which obtain with one another. Proficiency with Python and one or more common analytical tools (SQL, Tableau, etc.) is preferred.

• Detail oriented: You have comfort and facility with the last few percent of accuracy, ensuring work products have zero defect.

• An excellent communicator: As well as solving problems, you can communicate your thinking to various stakeholder audiences who may have divergent points-of-view.

• Eager to learn: You are eager to learn and grow; you enjoy the pain of a steep learning curve.

Location

We have hubs in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco, with a flexible approach to remote work and work from home.

At Comity, we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Our priority is to ensure that all applicants are provided with fair and equal access to employment opportunities. Recruiting and hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other class protected by law.