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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
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™
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.
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
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
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
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)
