VP of Credit | CRE Private Credit Platform | Equity + Carry

LHH (Atlanta) is excited to partner with a fast-growing commercial real estate finance platform that is looking to hire a VP of Credit to lead and scale its credit function. This is a high-impact opportunity with a company providing flexible capital solutions to experienced real estate sponsors across low-leverage, cash-flowing CRE assets. The platform provides capital through preferred equity, mezzanine debt, and structured credit solutions.

This is also a highly forward-looking role for a credit leader who wants to help build a more modern credit function, where strong credit judgment is translated into scalable systems, better tooling, and AI-enabled processes that make underwriting, monitoring, and decision-making faster and more effective.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the credit and underwriting function across a growing portfolio of CRE credit investments
• Evaluate new investment opportunities, including preferred equity, mezzanine debt, and other structured capital solutions
• Review sponsor quality, asset performance, cash flow, leverage, market dynamics, collateral, and exit strategy
• Build and refine underwriting standards, credit policies, approval workflows, and risk-rating frameworks
• Prepare and present investment committee materials, credit memos, and transaction recommendations
• Partner closely with originations, executive leadership, legal, servicing, operations, and capital markets
• Help structure transactions, including pricing, covenants, reporting requirements, reserves, and downside protection
• Oversee portfolio monitoring, borrower reporting, watchlist management, covenant compliance, and early risk identification
• Help institutionalize the credit function as the company continues to scale
• Serve as a senior credit leader in a lean, entrepreneurial environment with meaningful influence on strategy, process, and growth

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in commercial real estate credit, real estate lending, private credit, structured finance, or related investment roles
• Strong experience underwriting income-producing commercial real estate assets
• Experience with multifamily, bridge lending, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, private credit, or structured CRE finance preferred
• Strong understanding of DSCR, LTV/CLTV, cap rates, NOI, sponsor analysis, debt structures, exit risk, and downside protection
• Ability to evaluate both asset-level risk and borrower/sponsor quality
• Experience preparing credit memos, investment committee materials, and portfolio monitoring reports
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to make thoughtful credit decisions in a fast-moving environment
• Comfort operating in a growing company where the right person can help build, improve, and scale the credit function
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with founders, executives, investors, and cross-functional teams

Compensation/Benefits:

• Competitive base salary, plus 0.5% equity and fund carry sized to experience.
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Position offers significant work-from-home flexibility. Atlanta-area candidates are preferred, but the company is open to remote, U.S.-based candidates with the right experience.