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# Sr. Client Transition Specialist at Savvy Wealth

- **Company:** Savvy Wealth
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/savvy/3aca9c3a-d4b5-43b0-8947-7d42087ed0a1

## 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: Savvy is scaling fast, and the transition team is how new advisors get from signed to fully live on our platform. As a Senior Client Transition Specialist, you will own the most complex advisor book transitions end-to-end (large books, advisor teams, Broker Protocol moves, multi-custodian repapers) and act as an extension of the Onboarding Manager across every onboarding in flight. You will set transition plans, assign and balance work across the specialists, coach them day to day and assist the Onboarding Manager with people management (formal direct reports expected in 2027), partner with the manager on complex issues and escalations, and build the processes and automation that let the team absorb more advisors without adding headcount at the same rate. You will run your own book and raise the bar for everyone else's. Who you are:

- You've done this before. You've owned advisor transitions end-to-end at a custodian, RIA, broker-dealer, or fintech, and you know what breaks a repaper or an ACAT before it breaks.
- You're a step ahead. You see which transition is about to slip before anyone says so, and you act on it.
- You're detail-obsessed, and you spread it. You catch the error others miss, and you teach the people around you to catch it too.
- You make calls. Given incomplete data and a go-live date, you decide what blocks, what waits, and who needs to know, without waiting for permission.
- You build leverage. You turn a one-off fix into a repeatable workflow, document it, and use AI as a default tool while knowing exactly when to verify it.
- You communicate directly. You keep advisors, custodians, and teammates calm and informed under pressure, and you say the hard thing early.
- You have a humble, “can do” attitude and extreme ownership. You want to be part of a winning team, and you embrace being pushed out of your comfort zone.

You will report to the Client Service Onboarding Manager.

Responsibilities:

- Own the end-to-end transition of Savvy's most complex advisor books across custodians (Schwab, Fidelity), from transition planning and paperwork generation through completed account transfers and handoff to steady state.
- Act as an extension of the Onboarding Manager: own assignment of new onboardings to specialists based on complexity and capacity, maintain visibility across all in-flight onboardings, run the weekly portfolio review, and rebalance work as risks and volume shift.
- Solve complex issues and escalations (NIGO, custodian, vendor, data, advisor) together with the Onboarding Manager: own the first response, resolve or route quickly, and keep the advisor informed throughout.
- QA paperwork, transition spreadsheets, and trackers on high-risk books before submission; run root-cause reviews on NIGOs and turn findings into fixes.
- Assist the Onboarding Manager with people management of the Transition Specialists: regular 1:1s, coaching on process, custodial platforms, and judgment calls, performance input, and onboarding new team members. Formal direct reports expected in 2027.
- Lead pre-go-live transition planning with Sales and the advisor's team: data readiness, sequencing, standing instructions, and go-live risks.
- Own and maintain the transition playbook; identify, build, and document process and automation improvements (including AI workflows) in partnership with Product and Operations.
- Report on transition health (turnaround, NIGO rate, stalled accounts) and flag risk early to leadership.

Must Have:

- 5 to 8+ years in client operations, advisor transitions, onboarding, or account management in wealth management, with at least one full advisor book transition owned end-to-end.
- Hands-on experience with Schwab and/or Fidelity custodial platforms and a deep grasp of account transfer, repaper, LPOA, and ACAT paperwork and NIGO resolution.
- A track record of operating across many concurrent, deadline-driven workstreams and seeing risk before it surfaces.
- Demonstrated judgment: you've made consequential calls with incomplete information and can explain how you decided.
- Experience coaching, training, assigning work to, or QA'ing the work of others, with or without formal authority, and the desire to manage people formally.
- Strong data hygiene and spreadsheet skills (lookups, validation, cleaning messy custodian exports) and the discipline to catch errors before they compound.
- At least one process or automation improvement you built that other people adopted.
- Fluent, daily use of AI tools for data and document work, with clear judgment about when to trust versus verify output.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the confidence to keep advisors and custodians calm and informed under pressure.
- A collaborative, low-ego, self-starter attitude with extreme ownership, and comfort in a high-growth, constantly changing environment.

Nice to have:

- Experience with Broker Protocol transitions, advisor teams, or books over $100M.
- Familiarity with Orion, Salesforce, DocuSign, and bulk onboarding or CRM import tooling.
- Experience building workflows or automations with AI tools (Claude, custom skills, scripts) beyond single-chat use.
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup, custodian, RIA, or broker-dealer.
- Experience formally managing a small operations team.

Additional Information: Savvy Wealth is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment that values diversity and individual contributions. Benefits:

- Competitive salary and equity package
- We offer a generous relocation package to help top talent make the move to our NYC office
- Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays
- Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans
- Company 401(k) (including Mega backdoor Roth options), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans
- NYC office in Union Square
- Lunch and snacks provided in the office, & dinner if you stay late
- 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)
- Benefits are available to full-time employees

## 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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