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# Sr Manager, People at Vesta Innovations Inc.

- **Company:** Vesta Innovations Inc.
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $160k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vesta/9ab50022-e586-40b5-b0f0-f19814088e5b

## Job description

## What we're doing

Owning a home is a foundational part of building financial security and wealth in America. However, the tools and technology that support homeownership are antiquated, dependent on things like fax machines, handwritten documentation, and hours of manual review.

We're here to change it.

Vesta was founded to rebuild the mortgage LOS from the ground up. Our founding belief is that the future of mortgage lending will be a fully automated process. Today, our AI augmented platform makes that a reality. Our mission has been to build a platform where AI isn’t just an add-on, but the core engine that transforms how a loan is actually manufactured.

## Who we are

Our founding team is no stranger to the complexities of the financial industry. As early employees at Blend, they spent years together focused on creating modern cloud infrastructure for banks. Now, with Vesta, they are transforming the mortgage industry by creating the most flexible, open and automated origination experience, benefiting financial institutions and their customers.

And, we're not alone.

We've raised $85M from top tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital, Zigg Capital, and Index Ventures.

We believe that our team is our greatest competitive advantage and take pride in having a team of exceptional humans. As a team, we value humility, empathy, self-awareness, and an orientation towards action. If this sounds like you and you're excited by the idea of getting in at the ground level to be part of building the infrastructure that will power the future of the finance industry, we would love to hear from you!

## Who you are

You love creating the infrastructure a People function runs on: developmental frameworks that make managers genuinely good at their jobs, leveling architectures that keep a fast-growing company consistent, and comp philosophy that holds under pressure. You've partnered directly with the manager tier and become a trusted collaborator. You're strategic, not procedural: if a loop isn't working, you rebuild it rather than repeat it. You're the person managers bring the uncomfortable stuff to, and who tells them what's actually going on. If you want to be the builder behind a scaling People function, we'd love to meet you.

## About the role

This role is structured around two things you'll own end to end. The first is program and platform work: leveling, comp philosophy, and management development. The second is being the trusted HR business partner to our engineering manager tier, with a growing set of managers across the company over time.

Create the platforms

- Design the leveling framework at a company level. Define what each level means and looks like across every function. Set the standards for how someone gets promoted, how leveling stays consistent as new roles are added, and how one function's Level 4 compares to another's. This is the foundation the rest of our development, comp, and performance conversations sit on top of.
- Develop how Vesta develops its people. Form a shared point of view on what success looks like at each level. Turn the leveling framework into real conversations: development plans, promotions, calibration, and honest feedback about where someone is at on their career journey.
- Stand up management development as a program. Managing people isn't a job anyone gets good at by accident. Design the program that turns people who are new to that work into people who are good at it.
- Own comp philosophy. How we pay, how we level, how we structure cash, equity, and bonus. Consistent leveling and clear philosophy matter more as the company gets bigger. Ambiguity here corrodes trust faster than almost anything.

Partner with the manager tier

- Be the trusted HR partner to our managers. Mostly engineering managers today, with a growing manager population across the rest of the company over time. Work with them on performance, comp calibration, promotions, ER cases, development conversations, and the harder people moments.

Keep the foundation running

- Own employee relations. Handle the cases directly, and create the frameworks and playbooks that make good outcomes repeatable as the company grows.
- Own compliance and employment law. Multi state US employment law, policies, records, and filings: the groundwork that lets managers move with confidence and the company scale without surprises.

## Benefits and Perks

- Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% of employee premiums are covered)
- 401(K) plan offering
- Meaningful parental leave - 16 weeks fully paid for all new parents, birthing & non-birthing parents (applies to adoptions as well!)
- Remote-first culture with a hub in the Bay Area and New York
- Generous Work-From-Anywhere & Wellness Benefits
- Monthly Doordash benefits
- Open & encouraged flexible time off
- Company offsites to get to know the team!

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $160,000 - $190,000/yr. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. At Vesta, we believe that the only way we can tackle the challenging problems in front of us is by having diverse perspectives and an environment that promotes inclusivity. We’re committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. As part of our onboarding process, we participate in the E-Verify program.

## About Vesta Innovations Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vesta provides an AI-native loan origination system (LOS) that automates mortgage workflows, improves loan quality, and accelerates closings via intelligent agents and an open API platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series stage not disclosed; latest round: Corporate Minority)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (2021 Fillmore Street #1304)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Mike Yu (CEO) and Devon Yang (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Mortgage technology / Fintech (mortgage origination infrastructure)
- Target customers: Lenders of all sizes (enterprise, mid-market, SMB); B2B
- Mission: To reimagine the lending stack around data, intelligence, and automation, delivering a flexible, open, and AI-driven platform that empowers lenders to move faster, ensure compliance, and deliver a seamless borrower experience.

## Products & Services
- **Vesta Loan Origination System (LOS)**: A cloud-based, AI-native SaaS platform that orchestrates every step of the mortgage origination process. Key features include a customizable task engine, real-time document intelligence, automated compliance rules, and open APIs for integration with third-party partners. The system uses AI agents to parallelize work and reduce manual effort.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $55M (per company website) OR $30M (per CB Insights); conflicting reports. The most recent round was a corporate minority investment from PennyMac in 2025.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: PennyMac (strategic investor and customer), Bain Capital Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Conversion Capital, Zigg Capital, and Fannie Mae (partner for ULDD compliance).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - PennyMac selected Vesta as its mortgage origination platform, setting a new industry standard.
  - Expanded partnership with Fannie Mae to include ULDD (Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset).
  - Remote-first workforce with 100% remote policy; actively hiring across multiple functions.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: The platform is built from the ground up with AI agents that automate tasks, enforce compliance, and accelerate closings, rather than bolting AI onto legacy systems.
- **Open ecosystem**: Vesta is partner-agnostic with first-class APIs, allowing lenders to choose best-in-class tools and integrate seamlessly.
- **Task-based workflow engine**: Business teams can configure workflows without developer resources, reducing operational costs and improving agility.
- **Modern, fault-tolerant system of record**: Fully audited, performant, and designed for scale.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to dominate the mortgage origination space by deepening partnerships with major lenders and government-sponsored enterprises (e.g., Fannie Mae).
- Expand the platform’s intelligence capabilities and agent-based automation to further reduce time-to-close and operational costs.
- Scale the go-to-market team and engineering organization to support growing enterprise demand.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Remote-first company (100% remote workforce) with a strong emphasis on people and relationships. Core values include “Act as an owner,” “Bring fun to the process,” “Champion the team,” “Live in reality,” and “Refine your craft.”
- **Work environment**: Bi-annual company off-sites, quarterly team gatherings, home office annual stipend and monthly expenses, local co-working space availability, and team lunches via DoorDash credits.
- **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, 401k, ~100% employee premium coverage for medical/vision/dental, 16 weeks parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, free gym membership, and wellness stipends.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack (API-first, AI-driven), open source contributions, and a focus on building a futureproof platform.

## Sources
1. [Vesta Company Website](https://www.vesta.com/)
2. [Vesta About Page](https://www.vesta.com/about)
3. [Vesta Careers Page](https://www.vesta.com/careers)
4. [CB Insights - Vesta Innovations Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/vesta-5)
5. [LinkedIn - Vesta](https://www.linkedin.com/company/usevesta)

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