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# Senior Brokerage Operations Manager at Savvy Wealth

- **Company:** Savvy Wealth
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/savvy/f911878e-25a1-4bde-b0f3-7576437f6967

## Job description

## ABOUT SAVVY WEALTH:

Wealth management is a $545 billion industry that still runs on manual work. 75% of advisors offer no digital communication beyond email, and most still build financial plans by hand in Excel. Savvy is reinventing what it looks like to be a financial advisor. Founder Ritik Malhotra saw the fragmentation firsthand after seeking out his own advisor, and started Savvy to give independent advisors a modern, AI-native home.

Savvy is a registered investment advisor (RIA), and we partner with experienced financial advisors who want to grow without running the back office themselves. Advisors bring their book and join Savvy, running under their own brand (or ours), and Savvy earns a percentage of the assets they manage. In return, they get a true business-in-a-box: a proprietary tech platform and client portal, an in-house marketing team that helps them grow, a world-class investment management team, and a dedicated client services team that runs day-to-day operations and support. Advisors at Savvy service up to 50% more households and save 19 hours a week.

AI runs through everything we do. On the product side, Savvy Intelligence (released April 2026) is the only AI built for wealth managers that can see a client's complete financial picture. Internally, everyone at Savvy uses Claude and is encouraged to experiment with it, backed by a dedicated AI enablement team and a RevOps org building agents in-house.

We're a Series B company hitting our stride, with roughly 150 employees and over 500% year-over-year growth, backed by $105M from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Canvas Ventures, and Mark Casady (former CEO of LPL Financial). Come help us scale!

Recognition:

We're a Certified Great Place to Work and have been honored for our culture and our growth:

- Newsweek's America's Greatest Startup Workplaces (2026)
- Fortune Best Workplaces in New York™ (2026)
- Great Place to Work Certified™

## THE ROLE:

Savvy's introducing broker-dealer is live, but the trading desk operation underneath it is still a work in progress. Trade supervision, best execution review, and principal-level sign-off have been handled ad hoc, split across a few people without a dedicated senior owner. As Sr. Brokerage Operations Manager, you'll be the licensed principal of record for trading activity and the primary operations counterpart to our General Counsel/CCO. This is a senior, high-visibility role: you'll operate as a peer to Legal/Compliance and Business Operations.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

## TRADING DESK LEADERSHIP

- Build and own Savvy's trading desk operation end-to-end — trade lifecycle, execution quality, and best execution review — as the function's senior owner
- Serve as the licensed principal (Series 7/24) of record for trading activity, holding personal sign-off authority on trades, account actions, and exceptions requiring principal review
- Design and run Savvy's best execution program, holding Fidelity (and future execution venues) accountable to execution quality standards
- Own CAT/CAIS and Rule 605/606 regulatory trade reporting
- Drive AI/automation opportunities across the trading desk and back office — reducing manual reconciliation, exception detection, and compliance documentation — with a bias toward building rather than scaling headcount

## REGULATORY & PRINCIPAL OVERSIGHT

- Serve as CCO's primary operations counterpart on broker-dealer regulatory matters
- Resolve open licensing and supervisory-control ambiguities (e.g., manual vs. API-based account entry, principal pre-approval parameters) into documented, auditable policy
- Own FINRA examination readiness: supervisory review documentation, WSP maintenance, and audit-trail/document-versioning infrastructure
- Personally own escalation and disclosure decisions on regulatory-adjacent issues — late reviews, trade breaks above threshold, unusual trading patterns
- Experience building document versioning or audit-trail infrastructure

## ACCOUNT, CASHIERING & COMPLIANCE OPERATIONS

- Own the strategic design of account and cashiering operations — money movement approvals, wire approvals, AML alert escalation, account restriction management
- Partner with Legal & Compliance on FINRA/audit requests, complaint reporting, and escheatment tracking
- Own the Fidelity relationship and vendor management for broker-dealer operations, transitioning fully from Rohan over time

## MUST HAVE:

- 6-8+ years of broker-dealer operations experience, including having personally built a brokerage/trading operations function from scratch (e.g., at an RIA custodian, broker-dealer, or clearing firm)
- Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses
- Deep knowledge of the trade lifecycle, best execution, and regulatory trade reporting (CAT/CAIS, Rule 605/606)
- Comfortable operating as a senior peer to Legal/Compliance and company leadership — presents and defends decisions directly, doesn't need managing
- Experience preparing for or supporting a FINRA/SEC examination
- High comfort with ambiguity — this function and its controls are being built from scratch
- AI-first builder mindset with a track record of automating manual ops work rather than scaling through headcount
- Background in a high-growth fintech or startup environment

## NICE TO HAVE:

- Additional licensing (Series 4, 53, 54, 9/10 or 99)
- Experience owning a clearing firm relationship (e.g., Fidelity NFS)

## BENEFITS:

- Competitive salary and equity package
- Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays
- Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans
- Company 401(k), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans
- NYC office in the heart of Manhattan
- Lunch and snacks provided in the office
- Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health) and health concierge (Rightway) to help you find the right care
- Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)

## About Savvy Wealth

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Savvy Wealth is a technology-driven wealth management firm that provides a modern, digital-first platform for financial advisors to manage client investments, planning, and operations, augmented by an AI-powered operating environment called Savvy Intelligence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B funded – Series A in 2022, Series B in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ritik Malhotra

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Wealth management / Financial services (technology-enabled RIA)
- **Target customers**: B2B (financial advisors and RIAs) and B2C (high-net-worth individuals served by advisors on the platform)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We help people make better financial decisions so they can live the life they aspire to live.” ([savvywealth.com](https://www.savvywealth.com/))

## Products & Services
- **Savvy Wealth Platform**: A unified digital platform for advisors that integrates CRM, back-office operations, client onboarding, performance reporting, and marketing automation. Offers a real-time financial dashboard for clients to track net worth and goals.
- **Savvy Intelligence (AI Platform)**: Launched in April 2026, an AI-powered operating environment that gives advisors a continuously updated view of each client’s investments, tax data, and financial plans. Agents help with scenario modeling, meeting notes, tax strategy, and client communications. Not client-facing; does not use client data to train third-party models. ([savvywealth.com/careers](https://www.savvywealth.com/careers))
- **Wealth Management Services**: Personalized investment management, retirement planning, estate planning, tax strategy, direct indexing, alternative investments, and held-away account tracking. Provided by dedicated fiduciary advisors.
- **Custodial Partners**: Multi-custodial with deep integrations to Charles Schwab and Fidelity for asset custody and execution. ([savvywealth.com](https://www.savvywealth.com/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: **$5B** in assets under management (AUM) with **100+** experienced advisors across **29** states. ([savvywealth.com/our-story](https://www.savvywealth.com/our-story))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The company states it is “backed by world-class investors.” ([savvywealth.com/careers](https://www.savvywealth.com/careers)) Partners include Fidelity and Charles Schwab for custody.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - **Headcount growth**: LinkedIn reports ~192 employees (May 2026), with annual growth of +105% and monthly growth of +3.4%. ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/savvywealth))
  - Series B funding round closed in 2025 to accelerate growth and expand advisor network.
  - Launched Savvy Intelligence in April 2026, a significant AI product milestone.
  - Active job postings: 22 openings as of mid-2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated tech stack**: Built a unified platform (RIA, investments, tax, planning, CRM, meeting notes) before layering AI – unlike competitors that bolt AI onto fragmented systems. This gives AI agents access to complete, current client data.
- **Fiduciary alignment**: No transaction-based compensation, eliminating conflicts of interest; advisors are either W2 or 1099 employees.
- **Multi-custodial model**: Advisors can custody assets with either Schwab or Fidelity, providing flexibility while maintaining deep integrations.
- **Rapid onboarding and scale**: Over 100 advisors and $5B AUM in ~5 years suggests efficient platform adoption and advisor attraction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Grow the advisor network** by recruiting experienced advisors and RIAs across the U.S.
- **Expand AI capabilities** with Savvy Intelligence, adding more agents (e.g., for tax, investment analysis) beyond the initial Financial Planning Agent.
- **Deepen product integrations** and continue to unify client data to reduce advisor manual work and improve client outcomes.
- **Enhance client experience** via personalized investment management and real-time dashboard tools.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasis on “Invent the future,” “Unlock everyone’s potential,” and “Get it done.” Team-driven, collaborative environment with ownership and momentum. ([savvywealth.com/careers](https://www.savvywealth.com/careers))
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – required presence in NYC office (111 W 33rd St, Suite 1401). Daily free lunch provided.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Comprehensive benefits, flexible time off, parental leave, company-wide events, and employee-led activities.
- **Engineering & AI focus**: Building a cutting-edge AI platform for wealth management; current openings include Founding Platform Engineer, Applied AI – Infrastructure, and Senior Product Designer. Fast-growing engineering team (technical staff 7% of headcount per LinkedIn).
- **Team size & growth**: ~192 employees (May 2026) with strong year-over-year growth (+105%), offering early-stage impact with established momentum.

## Sources
1. [savvywealth.com – About page](https://www.savvywealth.com/about)
2. [savvywealth.com – Careers page](https://www.savvywealth.com/careers)
3. [savvywealth.com – Homepage](https://www.savvywealth.com/)
4. [savvywealth.com – Our Story](https://www.savvywealth.com/our-story)
5. [LinkedIn – Savvy Wealth](https://www.linkedin.com/company/savvywealth)

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