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# Senior People Business Partner at Savvy Wealth

- **Company:** Savvy Wealth
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/savvy/c87c0bae-7b0f-4d8e-b721-c5d129f5c0ad

## 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.

The trajectory is steep and it's still early. We're a Series C company with 170+ people, $200M raised, and $100M ARR in sight this year. Inc. ranked us the No. 1 fastest-growing financial services company in America in 2026. Come build the next stage with us!

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: This is a unique opportunity to build the People Business Partner function from the ground up at a high-growth fintech company. As Savvy scales, our managers need a trusted advisor who can shape how we make talent decisions, design organizations, and develop stronger people managers. As our first dedicated PBP, you'll partner directly with business leaders across the org, bringing sound judgment to performance management, talent planning, and manager coaching at a moment when the volume and complexity of these decisions is growing fast. Your work will directly shape how consistently and well Savvy builds high-performing teams as we scale.

Responsibilities:

- Build trusted, credible partnerships with assigned business leaders and managers, advising on team health, performance, organizational effectiveness, and employee issues
- Raise the quality and consistency of performance and talent management, including calibration, promotions, succession planning, compensation decisions, and performance improvement plans
- Coach managers through difficult conversations, team dynamics, feedback, delegation, and accountability, and identify capability gaps that need to be solved more broadly
- Proactively diagnose organizational risk by using employee feedback, performance data, and direct observation to flag issues before they escalate, reducing regrettable attrition
- Drive consistent execution of core People programs, including performance reviews, talent planning, engagement initiatives, and workforce planning
- Support reorganizations, employee relations investigations, retention strategy, leadership transitions, and compensation discussions as needed
- Use people data and reporting to spot trends in performance, engagement, and retention, and bring that evidence to leaders to inform decisions

Must Have:

- Experience as an HR/People Business Partner supporting business leaders and managers, ideally at a fast-growing startup
- Strong business and organizational judgment; able to distinguish a people problem from a performance, org design, or operating problem, and make sound calls with incomplete information
- A track record of building credibility with leaders quickly, including comfort delivering difficult feedback and influencing decisions without relying on authority
- A high talent bar and comfort making clear calls on performance, potential, succession, and organizational needs, balancing empathy with accountability
- A bias toward proactively identifying issues and driving them to resolution rather than just administering process
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment, moving fluidly between strategic and tactical work
- Fluent with AI tools for research and decision support; knows when to trust AI output versus verify it, and stays current on what's newly possible

Nice to Have:

- Experience leading or supporting reorganizations, workforce planning, or leadership transitions
- Experience supporting both in person and remote teams
- Familiarity with compensation philosophy, promotion frameworks, and internal equity analysis
- Experience in fintech or another highly regulated industry

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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