Vice President - Product Development

Summary

Moder is transforming the mortgage industry by streamlining how people access, understand, and manage home financing. We are seeking an experienced and innovative Vice President of Product Development to lead our product strategy, development, and execution. This executive will shape the future of Moder’s mortgage technology solutions—building products that simplify processes for borrowers, lenders, and partners while keeping compliance, transparency, and customer experience at the forefront.

Essential Job Functions:

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute Moder’s product development vision and roadmap, aligning with company growth and market opportunities.
• Monitor industry trends, regulatory changes, and technological advancements in mortgage lending, servicing, and secondary markets.
• Partner with the executive team to ensure product innovation supports Moder’s mission of simplifying the mortgage journey.
• Support Presales Engineering efforts, participating in RFPs, Proposals, and POCs

Product Innovation & Execution

• Drive the design, development, and launch of cutting-edge digital mortgage solutions—including borrower platforms, loan origination tools, and compliance-driven features.
• Ensure all products comply with mortgage industry regulations, security standards, and data privacy requirements.
• Leverage data insights to improve underwriting, risk assessment, and customer experience.

Team Leadership & Culture

• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing product organization of managers, designers, and engineers.
• Foster a culture of customer-centric innovation, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Establish clear goals, KPIs, and growth opportunities for team members.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Compliance to ensure mortgage products meet customer needs and regulatory requirements.
• Act as the voice of the customer and lending partners when making product decisions.
• Present product strategies and updates to the Board and other stakeholders with clarity and impact.

Operational Excellence

• Develop and manage product development budgets and timelines.
• Establish frameworks to evaluate product performance, ROI, and customer adoption.
• Identify and manage technology partners and third-party integrations relevant to mortgage lending.

• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Other Related Duties:

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Manages staff and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Education and/or Experience:

• 12+ years of progressive product management and development experience, with 5+ years in senior leadership roles within financial services or mortgage technology.
• Demonstrated success in building and scaling digital lending or mortgage-related products.
• Strong understanding of mortgage lifecycle processes, regulatory requirements (e.g., CFPB, RESPA, TILA), and compliance-driven product design.
• Deep knowledge of fintech innovations, APIs, automation, and borrower experience design.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver results in highly regulated industries.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or related advanced degree preferred.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as requirements documents, tech specs, sw architecture, product roadmaps. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to think critically, identify and understand problems, shape viable options to solve and provide a recommendation.  

Customer Service Relationships:

Assesses and diffuses problem situations and requires influencing others to reach consensus. Requires tact and diplomacy to handle difficult customer relationships. Explores alternatives and creative solutions to meeting the needs of customers.

Work Complexity:

Tasks are multiple and diverse with some interrelationship across processes. Work requires the direct application of a variety of procedures, policies and/or precedents.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Americans with Disabilities Act

Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to satisfactorily perform the essential job functions of the position either with or without reasonable accommodation. Applicants as well as employees are encouraged to meet with Human Resources as the organization shall review reasonable accommodations on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.

Job Responsibilities

The following statements reflect the general duties and responsibilities considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as an all-inclusive list of all the work requirements of the position. The Company may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.