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The Associate Manager, Originations leads a team assisting members with loan applications, ensuring quality service, compliance, and operational efficiency while coaching and developing team members.
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The role:
The Associate Manager, Originations will directly manage and support a team of Originations Specialists (OMS) focused on helping members complete the SoFi loan application process.. The Associate Manager is responsible for driving business and process changes to ensure SoFi members and employees have an exceptional experience.
What you’ll do:
- Lead: Independently manage a team of up to 15 Originations Specialists ensuring the team is following procedures, providing excellent customer service and processing loan applications that meet SoFi’s standards for quality and member experience. Set and motivate your team to achieve performance goals by defining clear objectives, responsibilities, and priorities
- Learn: Gain a deep understanding of the member experience at every step of the application process. This knowledge will help you support your team as they have questions, come across new trends and learn new areas of lending operations.
- Coach: Develop team members both in loan processing and in customer interactions via phone, chat, SMS, and email
- Improve: Identify opportunities to improve the experience of our members and employees who support our members every day. Reducing friction without compromising quality or introducing risk
- Monitor: Track day-to-day activities of functional areas to ensure compliance to internal policy, legal, and pertinent regulations. Establish, monitor, and maintain internal policies and procedures as well as business continuity plans
- Respond: Identify, escalate issues, and propose recommended solutions regarding potential issues with process, systems, and operations inefficiencies as they happen
- Hire: Hire, train, and coach new Specialists on our Lending products and processes
- Grow: Care for your direct reports by forming their broader career goals into realistic, actionable steps that you work together on
- Smile: Challenge the status quo every day with a positive and productive mindset
What you’ll need:
- 1-2 years of experience managing the output and performance of others in a call center environment, preferably within the financial services industry
- 2-3 years of experience in customer service, lending application review, trust+safety, sales, or similar function
- Experience training, motivating, monitoring, and supporting teams of customer service agents in a metric-driven environment
- Knowledge of speaking directly with customers on escalated issues
- Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to react to change quickly and implement new processes & procedures
- Work independently with little or no supervision
- Ability to analyze data sets, confirm the integrity of the data, and draw conclusions
- Professional demeanor and excellent work habits are essential
- Note that some evenings and weekend days will be required
Nice to have:
- Student loan originations, consumer credit, or consumer lending experience preferred
Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
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SoFi Seattle, Washington, USA Office
The office is located in Pike Tower, just five blocks from Pike Place Market, and houses some of our Engineering, Design, and Product teams - including engineers, product managers, and other technical functions.
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