Aspiriant is recruiting a Senior Associate for our Planning Strategy & Research (PS&R) group. PS&R serves as the central hub for Aspiriant's wealth planning innovation and client experience. This is a nationwide search, with the opportunity to be located in our San Diego office or our other office locations (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mountain View, Irvine, Austin, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, or New York). The Senior Associate will report to the Chief Client Officer.
The Senior Associate role is a distinctive opportunity for someone who loves wealth planning and wants to apply that expertise in a broad, scalable way. Rather than working directly with clients, the Senior Associate will help design and evolve our wealth planning platform, developing tools and insights that advisors rely on every day to ensure we deliver a consistent, high-quality, intimate client experience.
This is a non-client-facing role without any direct business development duties by design. It is well suited for an individual with prior client-facing experience who seeks to extend that impact across the firm. The Senior Associate partners closely with the Practice (e.g., the firm's client-facing professionals) and participates with Client Service Operations, Technology, Compliance and other departments to solve complex challenges, improve how the firm operates and bring new ideas into practice.
PS&R's mission is to help advisors foster intimate and durable client relationships that enable clients to achieve their goals, experience peace of mind and live life well. The team builds and maintains the wealth planning platform that helping advisors with the tools, training and processes that make exceptional client service impression intuitive, coordinated and deeply personal.
Here are some examples of PS&R initiatives to demonstrate the range of our work:
We are Aspiriant , a leading, independent, 100% employee-owned wealth management firm. Our core values guide us to seek out a broad range of perspectives, talent, and backgrounds to achieve our mission; one where all staff contribute to and share our success. We recognize, respect and value the contributions of each employee, and we strive to cultivate a work environment that strikes an agreeable balance between our professional and personal lives.
How you will contribute:
As part of PS&R, the Senior Associate plays a central role in equipping advisors across the firm to deliver exceptional, highly personalized client experiences. The role will assist with the following:
Drive wealth planning innovation and insight
Build tools, processes and intellectual capital
Enable and help advisors across the Practice
Collaborate across the firm to enhance the client experience
Create content and extend the firm's voice
Is this you?
An ideal candidate will be motivated by our mission to empower families to take control of their financial lives, live their values with clarity and peace of mind and achieve their long-term goals. This role is not client facing. Instead, it plays a critical behind-the-scenes role by supporting advisors who work directly with clients. The right candidate will bring prior wealth management advisor experience along with a strong desire to focus their career on enabling others to deliver exceptional, highly personalized client service.
We seek individuals who share Aspiriant's values and vision and who thrive in a collaborative, intellectually rigorous and compassionate environment. A strategic partner once compared us to a "cocker spaniel," and we embrace that comparison. Our client relationships are grounded in professionalism and strengthened by warmth, care, and authenticity. This role contributes to that experience by equipping advisors with the tools, insights and support they need to serve clients with distinction. The attributes and talents that lead to success in the role are:
Knowledge:
Skills:
Abilities:
Experience and Education:
We consider a range of experience and educational backgrounds that demonstrate the ability to succeed in this role. Typical qualifications include:
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
Primarily sedentary work in an office with minimal distractions; walking throughout the office. Learn and memorize tasks; execute tasks independently; apply knowledge and use judgment to manage situations. Occasionally exert up to ten pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Perform repetitive motions; substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and fingers for computer keyboard operation. Use near visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing documents, operating a computer, and reading. Speak and hear to communicate with team members and clients by phone and in-person.
Aspiriant is committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging .
A diverse and inclusive culture is essential to providing the best to both our clients and our people. Including a variety of perspectives in all that we do is necessary for our innovation and growth. We envision a firm where our people see a community they belong to and an inspiring future…a firm where people can be themselves, learning is limitless, and everyone can thrive.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in and follows Fair Chance Ordinances, we are committed to employment practices that ensure that employees and applicants for employment are provided with equal opportunities without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other factor that is not related to the position.
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Aspiriant is a Registered Investment Adviser, subject to SEC regulation, and requires all employees (and at times, family members) to disclose securities holding and transactions. There are also restrictions on trading certain securities. Candidates are encouraged to request further information regarding these policies.