Head of Closing & Funding

📋 Description

• Own closing and funding domain expertise from clear-to-close through funding.
• Identify repetitive coordination, document, settlement, and funding work that should be automated
• Translate closing workflows, state and settlement nuances, and expert judgment into product
• Build human-review queues, controls, SLAs, and escalation paths for unsupported or exceptional
• Reduce redraws, funding delays, defects, and unnecessary manual touches.
• Establish metrics for automated workflow coverage, exception rates, cycle time, quality, and manual

🎯 Requirements

• Significant mortgage closing and/or funding leadership experience.
• Experience operating at 250 to 300+ loans per month, ideally substantially more.
• Strong preference for wholesale lending experience.
• Deep understanding of closing operations, documents, settlement, and funding workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to improve process, quality, or throughput.
• Comfortable making domain knowledge explicit enough for technical teams to encode.