Title Underwriting Assistant (Philadelphia or Pittsburgh)
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences.
Thus we need to decide which sections to include. The posting includes:
- Who We Are (company description)
- What We Do (role description)
- Qualifications & Requirements (list of qualifications)
- Pay Range: $20.31 - $27.09 Hourly (with explanation)
- What We Offer (benefits description)
We need to map to allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have "Who We Are" maybe not needed; but we could include as "About the role"? Actually "Who We Are" is company overview, not role. Could be omitted? The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. The posting does have "Who We Are" content. But we don't have a heading exactly matching that; we could use "About the role" for role description, but "Who We Are" is about company. Could we still include it under a heading like "About the role"? Might be misrepresenting. However we could treat "Who We Are" as introductory paragraph not needing a heading; we could just put it in a
without heading. The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. those). Likely we should only use those headings. So we can omit "Who We Are" as a separate heading; we could incorporate its content into a
before sections.
Similarly "What We Do" could be under "About the role" or "Responsibilities". The role description includes responsibilities: reviewing title documentation, etc. So we could put that under "Responsibilities". The "Qualifications & Requirements" clearly under "Qualifications" or "Requirements". We have both qualifications and requirements; we could combine into one section "Qualifications". The "Pay Range" under "Pay". The "What We Offer" under "Benefits". Also maybe "Skills" could be extracted but we have many skill statements within qualifications; we could keep them in Qualifications.
Thus final HTML:
Who We Are paragraph...
About the role
What We Do paragraph...
Responsibilities
- ... list of duties from What We Do? Actually responsibilities are embedded in What We Do: reviewing title documentation, identifying potential issues, staying ahead of requirements, partnering with others to move transactions forward, supporting commercial title and underwriting activities, reviewing title searches, commitments, surveys, recorded documents, legal descriptions, endorsements, and other transaction-related documentation, partnering with underwriters, attorneys, lenders, customers, internal teams to help identify and resolve title matters and facilitate timely and accurate completion of commercial real estate transactions.
But we could also incorporate responsibilities as list items.
Qualifications
- Working knowledge of ALTA title insurance policy forms, commitments, endorsements, and coverages, including Owner’s and Loan Policies.
- Knowledge of title commitments and pro forma policies, including Schedule A, Schedule B-I requirements, and Schedule B-II exceptions.
- Ability to review and understand title searches, commitments, surveys, recorded documents, legal descriptions, and supporting title documentation, and identify matters requiring additional review or escalation to an underwriter.
- Familiarity with common title exceptions and requirements, including mortgages, judgments, liens, easements, restrictions, rights-of-way, taxes, assessments, and other recorded encumbrances.
- Understanding of fundamental real estate and title concepts, including vesting, conveyances, legal descriptions, entity ownership, chain of title, and recording requirements.
- Experience preparing, reviewing, and revising title commitments, pro forma policies, final policies, endorsements, and related title documentation with a high degree of accuracy.
- Ability to review deeds, entity and authority documentation, resolutions, organizational documents, and other transaction-related documentation, recognizing matters that require underwriting review.
- Knowledge of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, financing, refinances, construction transactions, and other complex commercial transactions.
- Ability to review and compare surveys and legal descriptions and identify discrepancies, title matters, or other issues requiring further review.
- Understanding of recording and post-closing title processes, including review of recorded documents, satisfaction of title requirements, and preparation and issuance of final title policies and endorsements.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple files, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-volume commercial environment.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate professionally and effectively with customers, attorneys, lenders, surveyors, abstractors, recording offices, and internal underwriting, escrow, sales, and production teams.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of assigned files and responsibilities, proactively identify outstanding requirements, follow up on open items, anticipate next steps, and communicate status and potential issues without requiring continuous direction.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in determining when a matter should be escalated to an underwriter or other appropriate resource.
- Strong commitment to responsiveness and customer service, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams to facilitate timely and accurate completion of transactions.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, title production systems, and electronic document management platforms, with the ability to quickly learn and effectively utilize new technology and systems.
- Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience in the title insurance, commercial real estate, legal, or related industry.
- Experience supporting complex commercial or National Commercial Services transactions preferred.
- Familiarity with multi-state commercial transactions and varying state-specific title and recording requirements is a plus.
- Prior experience working directly with commercial real estate attorneys, institutional lenders, developers, investors, and other sophisticated commercial customers is preferred.
Pay
Pay Range: $20.31 - $27.09 Hourly. This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
Benefits
Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan. Also includes statement about People First culture: "By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term." However EEO boilerplate should be removed per instruction: remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should strip that line. Also remove "First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term." That's EEO. Also remove "Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package..." that's fine. The culture statement is not EEO; it's about People First. That's okay to keep. But we need to ensure we don't include any EEO lines. So we keep the culture statement and benefits.
Thus Benefits section:
By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.
We should also include the "Who We Are" paragraph as a before any headings.
Let's extract Who We Are paragraph:
"Join a team that puts its People First! As a member of First American's family of companies, National Commercial Services provides single-point service for simple to multi-property/multi-state national commercial real estate transactions. Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eleven consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com."
We should keep that as a
. No heading.
What We Do paragraph:
"Bring your knowledge of title insurance and commercial real estate to a collaborative team supporting complex commercial transactions. If you enjoy reviewing title documentation, identifying potential issues, staying ahead of requirements, and partnering with others to move transactions forward, this may be a great opportunity to grow your career with a premier brand in the commercial real estate space. First American is looking to add a Title Underwriting Assistant/Commercial Title Assistant to our growing team. This position plays an important role in supporting commercial title and underwriting activities, including reviewing title searches, commitments, surveys, recorded documents, legal descriptions, endorsements, and other transaction-related documentation. You will partner closely with underwriters, attorneys, lenders, customers, and internal teams to help identify and resolve title matters and facilitate the timely and accurate completion of commercial real estate transactions. This position may be based out of our Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office, providing the opportunity to work alongside an experienced commercial team while supporting sophisticated commercial real estate transactions."
We can put that under
About the role
as a .
Now Responsibilities: we could extract list of duties from
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences. Thus we need to decide which sections to include. The posting includes: - Who We Are (company description) - What We Do (role description) - Qualifications & Requirements (list of qualifications) - Pay Range: $20.31 - $27.09 Hourly (with explanation) - What We Offer (benefits description) We need to map to allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have "Who We Are" maybe not needed; but we could include as "About the role"? Actually "Who We Are" is company overview, not role. Could be omitted? The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. The posting does have "Who We Are" content. But we don't have a heading exactly matching that; we could use "About the role" for role description, but "Who We Are" is about company. Could we still include it under a heading like "About the role"? Might be misrepresenting. However we could treat "Who We Are" as introductory paragraph not needing a heading; we could just put it in a
without heading. The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. those). Likely we should only use those headings. So we can omit "Who We Are" as a separate heading; we could incorporate its content into a
before sections. Similarly "What We Do" could be under "About the role" or "Responsibilities". The role description includes responsibilities: reviewing title documentation, etc. So we could put that under "Responsibilities". The "Qualifications & Requirements" clearly under "Qualifications" or "Requirements". We have both qualifications and requirements; we could combine into one section "Qualifications". The "Pay Range" under "Pay". The "What We Offer" under "Benefits". Also maybe "Skills" could be extracted but we have many skill statements within qualifications; we could keep them in Qualifications. Thus final HTML:
Who We Are paragraph...
About the role
What We Do paragraph...
Responsibilities
- ... list of duties from What We Do? Actually responsibilities are embedded in What We Do: reviewing title documentation, identifying potential issues, staying ahead of requirements, partnering with others to move transactions forward, supporting commercial title and underwriting activities, reviewing title searches, commitments, surveys, recorded documents, legal descriptions, endorsements, and other transaction-related documentation, partnering with underwriters, attorneys, lenders, customers, internal teams to help identify and resolve title matters and facilitate timely and accurate completion of commercial real estate transactions.
Qualifications
- Working knowledge of ALTA title insurance policy forms, commitments, endorsements, and coverages, including Owner’s and Loan Policies.
- Knowledge of title commitments and pro forma policies, including Schedule A, Schedule B-I requirements, and Schedule B-II exceptions.
- Ability to review and understand title searches, commitments, surveys, recorded documents, legal descriptions, and supporting title documentation, and identify matters requiring additional review or escalation to an underwriter.
- Familiarity with common title exceptions and requirements, including mortgages, judgments, liens, easements, restrictions, rights-of-way, taxes, assessments, and other recorded encumbrances.
- Understanding of fundamental real estate and title concepts, including vesting, conveyances, legal descriptions, entity ownership, chain of title, and recording requirements.
- Experience preparing, reviewing, and revising title commitments, pro forma policies, final policies, endorsements, and related title documentation with a high degree of accuracy.
- Ability to review deeds, entity and authority documentation, resolutions, organizational documents, and other transaction-related documentation, recognizing matters that require underwriting review.
- Knowledge of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, financing, refinances, construction transactions, and other complex commercial transactions.
- Ability to review and compare surveys and legal descriptions and identify discrepancies, title matters, or other issues requiring further review.
- Understanding of recording and post-closing title processes, including review of recorded documents, satisfaction of title requirements, and preparation and issuance of final title policies and endorsements.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple files, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-volume commercial environment.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate professionally and effectively with customers, attorneys, lenders, surveyors, abstractors, recording offices, and internal underwriting, escrow, sales, and production teams.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of assigned files and responsibilities, proactively identify outstanding requirements, follow up on open items, anticipate next steps, and communicate status and potential issues without requiring continuous direction.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in determining when a matter should be escalated to an underwriter or other appropriate resource.
- Strong commitment to responsiveness and customer service, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams to facilitate timely and accurate completion of transactions.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, title production systems, and electronic document management platforms, with the ability to quickly learn and effectively utilize new technology and systems.
- Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience in the title insurance, commercial real estate, legal, or related industry.
- Experience supporting complex commercial or National Commercial Services transactions preferred.
- Familiarity with multi-state commercial transactions and varying state-specific title and recording requirements is a plus.
- Prior experience working directly with commercial real estate attorneys, institutional lenders, developers, investors, and other sophisticated commercial customers is preferred.
Pay
Pay Range: $20.31 - $27.09 Hourly. This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
Benefits
Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan. Also includes statement about People First culture: "By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term." However EEO boilerplate should be removed per instruction: remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should strip that line. Also remove "First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term." That's EEO. Also remove "Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package..." that's fine. The culture statement is not EEO; it's about People First. That's okay to keep. But we need to ensure we don't include any EEO lines. So we keep the culture statement and benefits. Thus Benefits section:
By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.
We should also include the "Who We Are" paragraph as abefore any headings. Let's extract Who We Are paragraph: "Join a team that puts its People First! As a member of First American's family of companies, National Commercial Services provides single-point service for simple to multi-property/multi-state national commercial real estate transactions. Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eleven consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com." We should keep that as a
. No heading. What We Do paragraph: "Bring your knowledge of title insurance and commercial real estate to a collaborative team supporting complex commercial transactions. If you enjoy reviewing title documentation, identifying potential issues, staying ahead of requirements, and partnering with others to move transactions forward, this may be a great opportunity to grow your career with a premier brand in the commercial real estate space. First American is looking to add a Title Underwriting Assistant/Commercial Title Assistant to our growing team. This position plays an important role in supporting commercial title and underwriting activities, including reviewing title searches, commitments, surveys, recorded documents, legal descriptions, endorsements, and other transaction-related documentation. You will partner closely with underwriters, attorneys, lenders, customers, and internal teams to help identify and resolve title matters and facilitate the timely and accurate completion of commercial real estate transactions. This position may be based out of our Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office, providing the opportunity to work alongside an experienced commercial team while supporting sophisticated commercial real estate transactions." We can put that under
About the role
as a. Now Responsibilities: we could extract list of duties from