Managing Director, Head of Originations

Description

• Serve as a hands-on leader, actively collaborating with team members to solve challenges and ensure successful execution.
• Work closely with the credit risk and underwriting teams to ensure transactions meet underwriting standards and investor expectations.
• Enhance the firm's brand and visibility by participating in industry events, contributing thought leadership, and engaging in relationship-driven business development, representing the firm as a trusted and solution-oriented partner.
• Leverage established relationships with developers, owners, and investors to source and close high-quality lending opportunities.
• Set ambitious growth targets and manage business plans for the Texas-based origination team, overseeing origination strategy and market execution.
• Partner with Portfolio Management and Servicing teams to uphold strong risk management, credit quality, and portfolio oversight standards.
• Act as a team-oriented player-coach, developing and leading a group of skilled commercial loan origination professionals while maintaining a personal book of business.
• Develop a consistent origination pipeline aligned with the firm's credit strategy and growth objectives, overseeing all aspects of deal origination and collaborating with senior stakeholders on structuring, negotiation, and closing of loans.

Requirements

• Expertise in financing the construction, development, or improvement of single-family communities, as well as multifamily and mixed-use properties.
• In-depth knowledge of credit, underwriting, valuation, and structured finance, with experience at regulated and/or unregulated institutions.
• Proven leadership in growing sales and origination teams, with the ability to teach, coach, and manage a geographically dispersed workforce.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in commercial real estate investment and lending.
• Track record of successfully growing and managing a dispersed portfolio of real estate assets.
• Expert in structuring and negotiating complex loans, including mezzanine financing and preferred equity, with emphasis on ground-up development, construction, and value-add strategies for residential assets such as multifamily, build-to-rent, manufactured housing, horizontal single-family, and master-planned communities.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO, health/dental/vision/life insurance, 401(k) matching, parental leave, adoption services reimbursement/learning/educational incentives, Volunteer Time Off, well-being programs, company events, self improvement/productivity tools, & the incredible feeling of making a difference.

Living Fully: We prioritize living fully with a dedication to achieving optimal health in all aspects of life: faith, family, friends, freedom, fun , fulfillment, fitness, and finance.

• We are disciplined, following our exclusive Elite Execution System to develop personally and professionally.

Training + Development

Interview process

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