Senior Analyst, Home Lending Operations Strategy

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The role:

The Senior Analyst, Home Lending Operations Strategy will be instrumental in shaping the future of mortgage origination at SoFi. This role focuses on delivering a best-in-class member experience and achieving industry-leading turn times during periods of high growth. The successful candidate will partner closely with Product, Sales, Marketing, Credit, and Operations teams, providing both strategic thought leadership and hands-on execution to drive service and speed with quality.

What you’ll do: 

• Strategic Leadership: Manage and execute complex transformation projects within aggressive timelines for the Mortgage operations. This includes defining project scope, objectives, milestones and deliverables.


• Business Requirements & Process Redesign: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document comprehensive business requirements. Design and implement optimized processes, workflows, and operational models to reduce processing times.


• Vendor Identification & Selection: Identify, evaluate, and select third-party vendors and technology solutions that align with strategic objectives and project requirements. Manage vendor relationships throughout the project lifecycle.


• Onboarding & Change Management: Develop and execute comprehensive onboarding plans for new technologies, processes, and systems. Lead change management initiatives to ensure smooth adoption and integration within impacted teams, including communication, training, and support.


• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams across Marketing, Product, Credit, Risk, and Compliance to ensure alignment of business objectives and the successful implementation of transformation initiatives.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field.


• 5-7 years of proven experience in transformation project leadership and business process redesign within the home lending industry.


• Expertise in gathering, analyzing, and documenting comprehensive business requirements.


• Strong experience in designing and implementing optimized processes, workflows, and operational models.


• Proficiency in identifying, evaluating, and selecting third-party vendors and technology solutions.


• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively with diverse teams.


• Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data for insights (experience with data visualization tools and statistical analysis software is a plus, as is experience with SQL for data manipulation).


• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of conveying complex information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership.

Nice to have:

• Experience leading operations teams in Home Lending.


• Experience leading product teams or large scale technology deployments.


• Well versed on the relationships between a digital point of sale system, pricing engine, loan origination system, and customer relationship management systems in creating a sales ecosystem focused on sales effectiveness and efficiency.

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• Competitive salary packages and bonuses


• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits


• Generous vacation and holidays


• Paid parental leave for eligible employees


• 401(k) and education on retirement planning


• Tuition reimbursement on approved programs


• Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans


• Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program

*These benefits are only applicable to full time employees

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Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.