Senior Vice President, Capital Markets

About Ascent

Ascent Developer Solutions is a leading private lending platform, serving real estate developers nationwide in the acquisition, renovation, and construction of residential real estate. Founded by a leadership team with a deep understanding and personal experience in virtually every facet of real estate development, Ascent is uniquely positioned to create custom, innovative lending solutions for a variety of real estate development business strategies.

Ascent Developer Solutions is a leading private lending platform, serving real estate developers nationwide in the acquisition, renovation, and construction of residential real estate. Founded by a leadership team with a deep understanding and personal experience in virtually every facet of real estate development, Ascent is uniquely positioned to create custom, innovative lending solutions for a variety of real estate development business strategies.

We are seeking a seasoned Capital Markets and Treasury leader to drive the strategy, execution, and expansion of the firm's capital structure . This role will be responsible for sourcing, structuring, and managing institutional capital, while overseeing treasury operations to ensure optimal liquidity, funding efficiency, and risk management. Reporting to the CFO and coordinating closely with the CEO and General Counsel, this leader will own the buildout of the firm's capital markets function from current state to programmatic securitizer, including launch of an inaugural securitization, development and ramp of whole-loan sale and/or participation programs, and evolution of the capital stack to support the firm's full-lifecycle lending vision.

The ideal candidate brings deep relationships across institutional investors, direct experience leading securitization and whole-loan sale / participation programs, a strong track record in structured finance and credit markets, strong interdepartmental teamwork and collaboration, and the ability to align capital strategy, treasury management, and lending operations in a rapidly scaling environment.

• Develop and lead the firm's capital markets strategy to support private lending originations and growth targets
• Structure and execute financing solutions, including warehouse facilities, securitizations, CRE CLOs, whole-loan sale programs, forward flow agreements, loan participations, and institutional partnerships
• Optimize cost of capital, liquidity, and leverage across the platform
• Lead the firm's evolution from a balance-sheet warehouse funder to a programmatic securitization issuer, building a hybrid capital stack across warehouse, securitization, whole-loan sales, and loan participations to maximize capital velocity, ROE, and balance-sheet capacity
• Reduce guarantee structures over time through diversified funding strategies and negotiations with warehouse counter parties
• Define and execute the path to long-term capital products, including the development of an Agency correspondent lending program to support long-term takeout financing for the firm's multifamily, manufactured housing, and home builder portfolios

• Oversee the firm's treasury function, including liquidity management, cash forecasting, and funding allocation
• Ensure efficient deployment of capital across lending programs and investment strategies
• Manage warehouse and bank credit facility relationships across a existing multi-counter party bank facilities, advance-rate optimization, covenant compliance, and daily cash operations
• Drive wet-funding execution, advance-rate optimization, and pledge-to-leverage timing across all warehouse facilities to improve capital efficiency
• Build and maintain rolling cash forecasts and longer-term liquidity models integrated with the firm's origination, servicing, and accounting systems
• Develop and implement policies for liquidity risk, interest rate exposure, and capital efficiency, managing an executing trades for the firm's hedging strategy in conjunction with a third-party hedging advisory parter
• Partner with finance and accounting teams on cash management, reporting, and covenant compliance

• Cultivate and manage relationships with CUSIP investors, insurance companies, pension funds, credit funds, banks, and strategic partners (agency lenders, retail mortgage bankers, and homebuilders)
• Support debt capital raising across warehouse, securitization, term, and…