Head of Closing & Funding
- Location
- Onsite Hybrid - Palo Alto (CA), New York City… · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- mortgage closing operations
- settlement
- loan funding workflows
- process automation
Also useful
- wholesale lending
Role Overview
Pylon is building a software-driven closing and funding platform. The goal is not to reproduce the traditional mortgage closing department with better tooling. It is to make the path from clear-to-close through documents, settlement, and funding increasingly deterministic and automated.
As Head of Closing & Funding, you will bring the operating expertise of a high-volume lender into that system. You will own the controls, exceptions, quality standards, and domain knowledge that allow Product and Engineering to automate more of the closing process safely over time.
Responsibilities
- Own closing and funding domain expertise from clear-to-close through funding.
- Identify repetitive coordination, document, settlement, and funding work that should be automated or eliminated.
- Translate closing workflows, state and settlement nuances, and expert judgment into product requirements and operating rules.
- Build human-review queues, controls, SLAs, and escalation paths for unsupported or exceptional cases.
- Reduce redraws, funding delays, defects, and unnecessary manual touches.
- Establish metrics for automated workflow coverage, exception rates, cycle time, quality, and manual intervention.
- Partner closely with Underwriting, Account Management, Post-Closing, Product, and Engineering.
- Build the expert operations layer required as volume grows.
Qualifications
- Significant mortgage closing and/or funding leadership experience.
- Experience operating at 250 to 300+ loans per month, ideally substantially more.
- Strong preference for wholesale lending experience.
- Deep understanding of closing operations, documents, settlement, and funding workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to improve process, quality, or throughput.
- Comfortable making domain knowledge explicit enough for technical teams to encode.
What Success Looks Like
Pylon can close and fund dramatically more loans while routine human coordination per loan falls. The remaining human work is concentrated in genuinely exceptional cases, and recurring exceptions continuously improve the platform.
About Pylon
America’s $13T mortgage market is one of the most important financial systems in the world. It underwrites the middle class and is the mechanism through which millions of families build wealth. But while every other financial instrument has been simplified to an API call, mortgages are still assembled by hand.
We started from zero and created the first vertically integrated mortgage platform that turns origination into a single API.
Publicly traded companies and the country’s largest originators are already building on Pylon. Revenue is compounding monthly. We’re backed by Peter Thiel, Conversion Capital, QED, Citi, Fifth Wall, and the founders of Ramp, Blend, and Mercury.
Working at Pylon isn’t for those seeking comfort. The people who thrive here have high agency, strong opinions, and a track record of delivering outcomes without direction. Many of us are former founders. We move quickly, challenge each other directly, and take full ownership of results. It’s hard work, but it will be worth it.
Join us in building America’s mortgage rails.
From Pylon's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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This Head of Closing & Funding position at Pylon is located in Onsite Hybrid - Palo Alto (CA), New York City… (On-site). Always check Pylon's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.
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