Director, Delivery, Adoption & Change

<strong>Overview</strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Director, Delivery, Adoption & Change serves as the leader responsible for translating servicing product capabilities into successful internal and customer-facing outcomes. This role ensures that product and platform changes are not only delivered, but effectively operationalized, adopted, and sustained across a complex, regulated, and evolving servicing environment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This role operates as a critical bridge across Product, Engineering, Program Delivery, UAT, and customer stakeholders, ensuring alignment from product development through implementation and sustained adoption. The Director is accountable for defining and scaling a repeatable delivery and adoption model that connects product roadmap, release execution, and customer readiness.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This role owns the change management and communication strategies required to support successful delivery and adoption, ensuring stakeholders are informed, prepared, and aligned to successfully adopt changes.</span></p> <br><strong>Responsibilities</strong><br><br><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Delivery & Adoption Strategy</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define and lead the overall delivery and adoption strategy across the servicing product platform.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Establish a scalable operating model for delivery and change, including standardized readiness frameworks, communication approaches, and implementation playbooks.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure alignment between product roadmap, release execution, and customer adoption strategies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Continuously evolve delivery approaches to support increasing platform complexity, scale, and customer needs.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own delivery and adoption outcomes across servicing product releases, ensuring successful rollout, readiness, and sustained adoption.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define implementation governance, milestones, and delivery checkpoints to ensure consistency and predictability across deployments.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Change Management & Communication</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define and lead change management strategies that support the successful adoption of servicing platform capabilities.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop and execute stakeholder communication plans across internal teams and customer environments, ensuring clarity on changes, impacts, and timelines.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure communication, training, and go-live messaging are aligned and reinforce adoption.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams to translate technical changes into clear, actionable messaging for business stakeholders.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify change impacts across people, process, and technology, and ensure mitigation strategies are incorporated into delivery and rollout plans.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure change management, communication, and adoption strategies are embedded into delivery planning, not treated as downstream activities.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Strategy & Execution Alignment</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define and align release strategy across internal teams and customer environments, ensuring coordinated readiness and execution.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Translate product roadmap and engineering releases into structured rollout plans and customer delivery strategies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Align go-live sequencing, communication timing, and operational readiness to support smooth deployment.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Program Management and Product Operations to ensure delivery execution aligns with timelines and priorities.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Adoption Planning & Readiness</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead adoption planning efforts across servicing domains and customer environments.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with customers to assess change readiness across people, process, and technology, and guide transformation plans to support successful platform adoption.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define and track readiness metrics across internal teams and customer environments, identifying risks and gaps prior to release.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure readiness approaches align with operational workflows, system dependencies, and cross-domain impacts.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Stakeholder Communication & Alignment </span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure consistent, clear, and timely communication of product changes, release impacts, and operational expectations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Align communication across Product, Engineering, Program Delivery, and customer stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of timelines and impacts.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Serve as the connective layer across functions, ensuring alignment from build through adoption.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Training, Enablement, & Go-Live Coordination</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Align training strategies with product changes and operational requirements.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure training, communication, and go-live messaging are coordinated and reinforce adoption.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Product, Operations, and Training teams to develop effective enablement materials.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure users are prepared to successfully adopt new functionality at the time of release.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Customer & Vendor Delivery Coordination</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with customers and third-party stakeholders to support rollout planning, readiness assessment, and adoption.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive alignment with vendors and external partners to ensure alignment on delivery timelines, dependencies, and readiness activities.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure customer-specific considerations are incorporated into rollout and adoption strategies.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Cross-Functional Execution Leadership</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Serve as the integration point across Product, Engineering, Program Delivery, UAT, and customer stakeholders.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure alignment across internal teams and external partners from product development through implementation and adoption.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Support other Directors by ensuring delivery and adoption considerations are incorporated into planning and execution.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuous Improvement & Scaling</span></h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Capture learnings from initial deployments to refine delivery and adoption approaches.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build a repeatable foundation for future client delivery through standardized processes and playbooks.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify gaps in adoption, communication, and readiness, and drive improvements to increase effectiveness and scalability.</span></li></ul> <br><strong>Qualifications</strong><br><br><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10+ years of experience in delivery leadership, implementation, product operations, change management, or related roles within complex, cross-functional environments.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience leading SaaS implementations, platform rollouts, or large-scale transformation initiatives.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong ability to translate product roadmap and technical releases into executable delivery and adoption strategies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience partnering with customers to drive readiness, transformation, and adoption across people, process, and technology.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated experience aligning Product, Engineering, and customer stakeholders to support successful delivery and adoption outcomes.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience building and scaling delivery or professional services operating models, including frameworks, governance, and execution standards.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience in mortgage servicing, financial services, or fintech environments strongly preferred.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Certifications, Licenses, and/or Registration:</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Relevant certifications in change management or program delivery (e.g., Prosci, PMP) preferred but not required.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="color: windowtext;">MSR Portfolio Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  All aspects of consideration for employment and employment with the Company are governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.</span></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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