Client Relationship Manager, Servicing

Zippy was founded with one mission: to make getting a loan for a manufactured home simple, fast, and fully online. We believe modern manufactured homes are affordable, well‑built, eco‑friendly, and stylish, but finding a lender who understands this market can be challenging. That’s why Zippy focuses exclusively on manufactured home loans, offering a seamless, digital experience.

Headquartered in Dallas, TX, with an office in Tempe, AZ, Zippy provides home loans and insurance to manufactured home buyers throughout the United States. Our remote‑first team is spread across cities like Dallas, Houston, Knoxville, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and several other states and cities. Backed by institutional investors, we offer competitive pay, stock options, and excellent benefits. At Zippy, we pride ourselves on our commitment to finance happiness through the power of home.

We are dedicated to enhancing consumers' financial outcomes and tackling the affordable housing crisis through cutting‑edge technology and innovative solutions.

The Client Relationship Manager serves as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of servicing clients and strategic partners within the manufactured housing finance space. This role is responsible for overseeing client relationships, coordinating servicing operations, supporting servicing transfer initiatives, and driving operational excellence across assigned portfolios.

The ideal candidate brings experience in loan servicing operations, client management, portfolio oversight, and cross‑functional coordination. This individual will work closely with servicing operations, legal, compliance, finance, and leadership teams to support seamless servicing execution and deliver an exceptional client experience.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for an assigned portfolio of servicing clients, investors, and business partners.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through proactive communication, operational support, and strategic partnership.
• Lead servicing oversight activities, including issue resolution, operational escalations, and client‑specific initiatives.
• Partner with internal servicing teams to ensure timely and accurate execution of servicing obligations and portfolio deliverables.
• Drive implementation of operational improvements, servicing strategies, and process efficiencies that enhance client experience and portfolio performance.
• Monitor portfolio performance metrics, servicing trends, and operational risk indicators.
• Coordinate and manage client requests, servicing approvals, and operational deliverables in alignment with servicing requirements.
• Lead and coordinate servicing transfer activities, including onboarding and offboarding processes, client communications, data validation, timeline management, operational readiness, and coordination with internal teams and third‑party partners to ensure seamless transfer execution.
• Serve as the primary liaison for servicing transfer initiatives, ensuring all operational, regulatory, investor, and client requirements are completed accurately and within established timelines.
• Oversee transfer‑related activities, including data reconciliation, boarding coordination, exception management, and operational tracking.
• Support issue resolution efforts related to servicing discrepancies, customer escalations, payment processing, and portfolio exceptions.
• Perform oversight and reconciliation of servicing‑related invoices, fees, reporting, and exception items.
• Conduct root cause analysis for operational issues and partner with business teams to implement corrective actions and process improvements.
• Review servicing agreements and operational requirements to identify risks, gaps, and implementation needs.
• Assist with onboarding new servicing clients and support integration activities across operational teams.
• Prepare and present portfolio updates, operational findings, servicing metrics, and strategic recommendations to leadership and clients.
• Organize and participate in client meetings, servicing transfer meetings, operational reviews, and onsite visits as needed.
• Support special projects, strategic…