Director, Project Management - Servicing System Transformation & Conversion

Who We Are At Newrez, we bring big thinkers and caring doers together to make home happen. We’re a team built on heart and hustle, united by a commitment to show up for our customers, our communities, and each other. We believe that when our people thrive, homeowners thrive - and that’s why we invest in your growth, wellbeing, and ability to make an impact.

Every day, we work to exceed the expectations of our residential mortgage borrowers and business partners through superior service, simple processes, and clear communication. We do this by empowering our employees, encouraging innovative solutions and recognizing great performance.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As the Director, Project Management – Servicing System Transformation & Conversion, you will lead enterprise-wide mortgage servicing transformation initiatives from strategy through implementation. You will serve as the executive program leader responsible for delivering complex servicing platform conversions while establishing governance, managing executive communications, facilitating Steering Committee decisions, resolving cross-functional conflicts, and ensuring organizational readiness across the enterprise.

DESCRIPTION:

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities Enterprise Transformation Lead enterprise mortgage servicing platform conversion program from initiation through post-production stabilization.

Develop and maintain integrated program plans, executive roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities.

Drive enterprise-wide alignment across Operations, Servicing, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Legal, Customer Experience, and Vendor organizations.

Ensure successful execution of complex, multi-year transformation initiatives.

Executive Leadership & Communications Serve as the primary executive liaison for servicing conversion programs.

Prepare executive-level presentations, recommendations, and decision materials.

Present program health, risks, financial impacts, and key decisions to executive leadership.

Lead Executive Steering Committee meetings.

Facilitate governance forums with senior executives.

Provide concise executive communications appropriate for C-suite audiences.

Escalate issues requiring executive decisions with clear recommendations.

Program Governance Establish and manage enterprise program governance.

Lead Steering Committee meetings and Executive Program Reviews.

Maintain RAID logs, decision logs, executive dashboards, and integrated program plans.

Drive accountability across business and technology work streams.

Ensure adherence to enterprise PMO standards and governance practices.

Track program financials, scope changes, executive decisions, and strategic milestones.

Stakeholder Management & Conflict Resolution Build strong partnerships across executive leadership and business and technology organizations.

Facilitate alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities.

Lead conflict resolution discussions to remove organizational barriers.

Influence decisions without direct authority.

Drive consensus across Operations, Technology, Vendors, and Executive Leadership.

Manage vendor relationships and executive escalations.

Mortgage Servicing Conversion Leadership Lead all phases of servicing platform implementation including:

Discovery Current State Assessment Future State Design Business Requirements Data Conversion Integration Planning Operational Readiness User Acceptance Testing Cutover Planning Production Stabilization Coordinate business readiness across servicing departments.

Ensure operational impacts are identified and mitigated.

Partner with vendors throughout implementation activities.

Risk & Decision Management Identify enterprise program risks and dependencies.

Drive mitigation planning across work streams.

Escalate strategic issues requiring executive decisions.

Manage enterprise RAID logs.

Facilitate executive decision-making through structured governance.

Monitor organizational readiness and adoption risks.

Change Management & Business Readiness Lead enterprise readiness planning.

Coordinate communications across impacted organizations.

Ensure training, documentation, operational procedures, and business…