Senior Operations Manager, Servicing & Collections

About the role

The Senior Operations Manager within Customer Operations will lead the strategic direction and operational management of the mortgage loan servicing and collections functions. This role is critical for ensuring efficient loan servicing processes, maintaining regulatory compliance, and optimizing collections strategies to minimize delinquency and loss while enhancing customer satisfaction. The incumbent will ensure our collections and default strategies are effective, by leveraging various methodologies to engage customers who are experiencing a financial hardship and designing programs and optimal solutions which ultimately lead to a long term path to cure the outstanding delinquency. This individual will ensure our people, processes, and systems are harmonized and simplified, providing end-to-end transparency, and align KPIs to value to all key stakeholders (Customer, Company, Community and Investors).

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the strategic vision for mortgage loan servicing and collections, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and market trends.
• Manage mortgage servicing operations, including payment processing, escrow, complaint management, account maintenance, customer service, and collections efforts for delinquent accounts.
• Design and implement effective collections strategies and processes that balance customer service with recovery objectives, aiming to reduce delinquency rates, delinquency roll rates and maximize recoveries.
• Ensure adherence to all applicable federal, state, and local regulations governing mortgage servicing and collections, including compliance with guidelines from agencies such as the CFPB and FDCPA.
• Team Development and Results Accountability: Lead, mentor, and build a high-performing team, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement in both servicing and collections.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and conduct data analysis to identify trends, inform decision-making, and drive operational improvements in servicing and collections.
• Collaborate with underwriting, risk management, and legal teams to ensure seamless operations and effective resolution of servicing and collections issues.
• Identify and assess risks related to loan servicing and collections; develop strategies to mitigate these risks and enhance operational resilience.
• Define and execute policies and procedures to facilitate an enthusiastic, holistic, and effective collections model with a customer-centric approach.
• Identify initiatives and improvements in technology, systems, and policies to enhance service and employee retention; work collaboratively across functions to design and implement initiatives.
• Proactively evolve culture through providing feedback, ongoing monitoring, and coaching to develop highly effective team
• Participate as a member of the Lending Operations and Servicing Leadership team; partner with other key stakeholders to champion, develop, and communicate a consistent strategic platform, mission, and purpose for the organization
• Partner, communicate, and facilitate collaborative interactions with peer organizations to ensure objectives, tactics, and long-term strategies are aligned and executed appropriately to achieve business goals.
• Manage the reconciliation of vendor reports for data inaccuracies or discrepancies. Support data alignment initiatives and data validation with our vendors for the servicing portfolio.
• Support leadership team in systems / operations processes, customer relations & issue resolution, if escalation required
• What We Look For
• Minimum of ten (10) years in the financial service / consumer lending industry (preferably mortgage or HELOC experience).
• Minimum of five (5) years in a leadership position in at least two of the following areas (Col

Benefits

Additional Information

About Figure Figure (NASDAQ: FIGR) is transforming capital markets through blockchain. We're proving that blockchain isn't just theory - it's powering real products used by hundreds of thousands of consumers and institutions. By combining blockchain's transparency and efficiency with AI-driven automation, we've reimagined how loans are originated, funded, and traded in secondary markets. From faster processing times to lower costs and reduced bias, our technology is helping borrowers, investors, and financial institutions achieve better outcomes. Together with our 170+ partners, we've originated over $22 billion in home equity loans (HELOCs) on our blockchain-native platform, making Figure the largest non-bank provider of home equity financing in the U.S. Figure's ecosystem also includes YLDS, an SEC-registered yield-bearing stablecoin that operates as a tokenized money market fund, and several other products and platforms that are reshaping consumer finance and capital markets. We're proud to be recognized as one of Forbes' Most Innovative Fintech Startups in 2025 and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Finance and Personal Finance .

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