Role:By emphasizing One Park, One Mission, One Team, the VP of Lending Production (Commercial/Mortgage) is responsible for leading a unified and strategic approach to loan production across commercial and mortgage lending. This role drives sustainable growth, strengthens pipeline development, and ensures a consistent, high-quality approach to generating lending opportunities that align with organizational goals. This position provides leadership to lending teams focused on origination and production performance - establishing clear expectations, building strong market relationships, and partnering across functions to support efficient execution, sound risk management, and a strong member and business experience.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:- Commercial Lending Strategy, Growth & Origination - Leads the strategy and execution of commercial lending production, driving portfolio growth, market expansion, and pipeline development. Establishes production goals, builds key market relationships, and ensures high-quality origination and deal structuring aligned with organizational growth and risk objectives.
- Mortgage Lending Production & Growth - Oversees mortgage lending production, ensuring consistent pipeline development, origination quality, and alignment with production goals. Supports market positioning, production strategies, and overall performance across mortgage lending.
- Team Leadership & Performance Management - Leads, coaches, and develops lending teams to achieve production goals, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and collaboration. Establishes clear expectations and drives performance through consistent coaching, metrics, and development.
- Origination Execution & Pipeline Management - Drives execution discipline across both commercial and mortgage lending, ensuring effective pipeline management, deal progression, turnaround times, and overall production performance.
- Operational Partnership & Strategic Alignment - Collaborates with operations and cross-functional partners to ensure efficient execution of the loan lifecycle, while contributing to process improvements, reporting, and broader strategic initiatives.
- Risk & Compliance Alignment - Ensures all lending activities align with credit union policies, underwriting standards, and regulatory requirements, partnering closely with Credit, Risk, and Compliance to maintain strong portfolio quality.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Performance Measurements:1. To be an ambassador of Park's culture supporting the credit union's mission to build thriving communities together ensuring words and actions align with the Park VIBE that defines our Core Values:
• Vibrant Connections
• Inclusive Excellence
• Bold Compassion
• Endless Empowerment
2. To provide friendly, professional and accurate service and support to all members and coworkers.
3. To achieve the budgeted loan production goals as measured by funded volume, pipeline strength, and portfolio expansion.
4. To ensure all originated loans meet established credit union policies, underwriting standards, and regulatory requirements, maintaining strong asset quality and risk alignment.
5. To develop and maintain a high-performing lending team, evidenced by achievement of production goals, engagement, and completion of performance reviews within established timelines.
6. To drive effective pipeline management and production discipline, as demonstrated by timely deal progression, conversion rates, and turnaround times across commercial and mortgage lending.
7. To maintain a strong market presence and referral network, resulting in sustained growth in qualified lending opportunities and strategic relationships within target markets.
8. To follow the credit union's Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering policies and procedures, including running OFAC searches, completing investigative reports of suspicious activity and currency transaction reports timely and without error.
9. To maintain a professional work environment, promote teamwork, build respect among coworkers and present a businesslike appearance.
10. To follow all security policies and procedures and report discrepancies or suspicious activity to manager immediately.
Knowledge and Skills:Experience Eight to ten years of similar or related experience.
Education (1) A bachelor's degree, or (2) achievement of formal certifications recognized in the industry as equivalent to a bachelor's degree (e.g., information technology certifications in lieu of a degree).
Interpersonal Skills Work involves extensive personal contact with others and is of a personal or sensitive nature. Motivating, influencing, and/or training others is key at this level. Outside contacts become important and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary and often requires the ability to influence and/or sell ideas or services to others.
Other Skills 1. Strong knowledge of commercial lending and working knowledge of mortgage lending products. 2. Proven ability to drive loan production through pipeline management and market development. 3. Strong leadership and people development skills, with the ability to build, coach, and motivate high-performing teams. 4. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into action.
Physical RequirementsWORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the essential duties of this position, the employee is regularly exposed to a
general office environment and interaction with customers.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this position, but do not necessarily constitute an exhaustive list of all essential functions. To the extent required by any applicable law, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions where this can be done without posing a direct threat to self or others. While performing the essential duties of this position, the employee frequently must sit, stand, and walk short distances. The employee frequently uses hands and fingers to count currency and handle, manipulate, and feel objects, documents, and office tools and equipment. Reads, writes, listens, speaks, and uses personal computers, copiers, telephones, and other office equipment and software throughout the work day. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, bend, squat, and reach overhead with hands and arms. Occasionally pushing and pulling of office furniture and other objects. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and on occasion lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Pay Range: $176,063.76 - $181,509.03 per year
