Director of Home Lending

Director Of Home Lending

Wealthfront is seeking a Director of Home Lending to join our team as we build and scale our mortgage lending operations. As a key player on the team, you will leverage your expertise to play a pivotal role in compliance, origination, and operational functions of the home lending unit. This position offers an exciting opportunity to be a part of a cutting-edge team in a rapidly growing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead configuration and optimization of the Loan Origination System (LOS) to meet business needs, ensuring efficient and compliant loan origination.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design scalable system workflows and ensure seamless integration with other technology platforms.
• Oversee system testing, implementation, and ongoing enhancements to maintain operational efficiency and an excellent client experience.
• Ensure all home lending processes and systems are compliant with federal and state regulations.
• Provide pipeline support to origination and operations team members managing queues, workload, and providing back-up support.
• Manage and support a team of origination and operations personnel.
• Maintain strong working relationships with compliance and legal teams to ensure timely updates to operations in response to regulatory changes.
• Assist with audits and licensing in alignment with industry standards.
• Design and deliver comprehensive training programs for the home lending unit.
• Implement training, reference material, policy, and procedure to support the launch of new states and product offerings.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement technology-driven solutions to enhance efficiency.
• Participates in and leads proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Adopts company values in work behaviors, decision making, contributions, and interpersonal interactions.
• Contributes to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and influencing others to reward performance, accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous development, collaboration, creativity, and fun.

Expertise

Requirements

Estimated annual salary range : $130,000 - $145,000 USD plus equity and a discretionary bonus. Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!

About Wealthfront

Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money. We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business. By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, we've expanded to a full suite of products designed to help our clients turn their savings into long-term wealth, including :

Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $85 billion of their hard earned savingsand we're far from done. If you're inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let's talk!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.