Senior Unsecured Lending Operations Lead (Hybrid)

Strategic Staffing Solutions, Inc.; West Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) seeks a senior contractor for Unsecured Lending Operations to translate AI priorities into executable plans and drive complex initiatives from planning through implementation.

You will coordinate across Operations, Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Finance, maintaining integrated plans and executive-ready updates in a dynamic, regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience leading complex business execution, project management, operational planning, or transformation initiatives.
• Experience coordinating multiple cross-functional workstreams with competing priorities and interdependent deliverables.
• Ability to convert ambiguous objectives into structured plans, clear ownership, and executable actions.
• Strong project-management discipline, including milestone management, risk identification, dependency tracking, decision management, and status reporting.
• Experience influencing and driving accountability across teams without direct authority.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to create concise, executive-ready materials.
• Ability to work independently, anticipate needs, resolve problems, and maintain momentum in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience working within a large, complex, or regulated organization.
• Strong proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, and standard project-management tools.

Responsibilities

• Translate AI priorities into clear work plans, milestones, deliverables, owners, and target dates.
• Lead day-to-day execution across multiple initiatives, pilots, and operational readiness activities.
• Maintain integrated project plans, action logs, decision trackers, risk and issue logs, and dependency maps.
• Coordinate activities across Operations, Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, change management, and other partners.
• Facilitate working sessions, document decisions, and drive timely completion of follow-up actions.
• Identify execution gaps, competing priorities, resource constraints, and delivery risks before they affect outcomes.
• Escalate issues with a clear summary of the impact, available options, and recommended action.
• Coordinate business requirements, testing, implementation readiness, communications, training dependencies, and transition into ongoing operations.
• Prepare concise executive updates that highlight progress, risks, decisions, dependencies, and next steps.
• Establish repeatable execution routines, templates, and governance practices that can scale across ULO AI initiatives.

Job description

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) seeks a senior contractor for Unsecured Lending Operations to translate AI priorities into executable plans and drive complex initiatives from planning through implementation.

You will coordinate across Operations, Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Finance, maintaining integrated plans and executive-ready updates in a dynamic, regulated environment.