Sr. Product Manager, Borrow and Operations

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We are seeking a Senior Product Manager / Lead to own the product charter for Borrow & Operations technology with a strong focus on our Home Lending business.

A product manager charter defines the products vision scope and business goals. This role uses that charter to lead cross-functional teams in discovering building and delivering a solution that operators and members rely on and that drives sustainable business value.

This is a Senior Manager role (M4). It owns one of IT Operations most complex companywide programs: the application ecosystem that runs Home Lending from origination through underwriting closing and servicing. The leader sets direction prioritizes the roadmap and is accountable for reliability control and operational outcomes across Encompass 360 Blend NICE inContact SoFi-developed applications and the vendor platforms connected to them.

The role leads a growing team of individual contributors who independently administer configure integrate and automate the Home Lending application portfolio. They set the product vision sequence the work clear cross-functional blockers and hold the team to outcomes: less manual work faster fulfillment stronger controls and a platform that scales with Borrow volume.

The ideal candidate combines product judgment with enough technical fluency to partner credibly with application administrators engineering risk compliance and Home Lending operations. They are comfortable making decisions where the right product shape is not yet defined and they know when a choice has long-range implications that need leadership alignment.

• Own the product charter for Borrow & Operations technology: vision scope success measures and the business goals the roadmap exists to hit.
• Set and sequence the Home Lending application roadmap across origination underwriting document management eSignature and eVault bureau and third-party integrations payments servicing regulatory data feeds and employee lifecycle support.
• Lead a new team focused on the Borrow and Home Lending lines of business. Plan their work coach them and make resourcing and priority calls so day-to-day administration projects and platform improvements stay in balance.
• Lead cross-functional discovery with Home Lending Operations Engineering Product Risk Compliance Security Identity and Access Management and vendors. Turn operational friction into scoped problems and delivered solutions.
• Decide what to build configure automate or stop. Assess alternatives operational risk regulatory impact and cost and shape how IT supports Borrow operations.
• Influence function-level decisions by partnering with senior individual contributors and IT and business leadership. Consult leadership when a choice has long-range implications for the platform the control environment or the operating model.
• Hold the team accountable for reliability security and auditability of Encompass 360 Blend NICE inContact SoFi-developed applications and related integrations including SOX and regulatory requests.
• Sponsor automation that removes repeatable manual work in provisioning configuration data movement and fulfillment and measure whether it reduces cycle time and operational risk.
• Own intake and prioritization so investor partner servicer and new-product onboarding is planned rather than absorbed as unscoped administration.
• Represent the product in operating reviews. Surface risks that could cause significant delays cost or resource constraints and drive mitigation with the stakeholders who can act.
• Establish standards for how the team documents configuration change and runbooks so knowledge is not trapped with individuals.
• Develop the two Applications Administrators through clear expectations feedback and growth toward independent ownership of complex workflows.

• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning a complex multi-system product or operations platform in lending mortgage technology or another regulated operating environment.
• Experience leading individual contributors including planning work coaching and making priority and resourcing decisions.
• Experience defining a product vision and roadmap and delivering it with engineering operations risk and compliance partners.
• Working knowledge of the mortgage or consumer lending lifecycle and the applications that support it including origination disclosures underwriting closing and servicing.
• Enough technical fluency to direct work on configuration integrations identity automation and change control and to review the judgment of the administrators who execute it.
• Experience making trade-offs among speed reliability control and cost where a wrong call can affect members operations or the control environment.
• Ability to influence peers and senior stakeholders across functions and to recognize when a decision has long-range implications that need leadership alignment.
• Strong written and verbal communication including the ability to explain product choices risk and operational impact to technical and non-technical leaders.
• A record of improving a live operating platform: fewer manual steps clearer ownership stronger controls and measurable business results.

• Direct experience with Encompass Blend or a comparable loan origination system as a product owner or as the leader of the team that administers it.
• Experience with Optimal Blue NICE inContact eVault or eSignature bureau integrations or servicing platforms.
• Experience leading SOX privacy or regulatory control work for business-critical applications.
• Experience in FinTech banking or mortgage operations.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow or a similar system of record for change incidents and request fulfillment.