🏛️RIA Operations Lead
You lead operations at a fast-growing RIA that has made three acquisitions in 18 months, integrating four separate tech
Sourced from 8 recent JDs · snapshot taken 2026-06-20
What this role pays — by city, years & skill stack
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Day-in-the-life (sourced from 8 recent JDs)
You lead operations at a fast-growing RIA that has made three acquisitions in 18 months, integrating four separate tech stacks onto a unified Salesforce + Orion + Schwab Custody spine and re-documenting all workflows in a central knowledge base.
Top skills for this role
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How this role evolves
As advisor-facing agents mature, the work splits into judgment humans keep and execution agents own.
- →Acquisition integration strategy
- →Advisor relationship
- →Operational risk ownership
- →Reconciliation bots
- →Workflow documentation drafts
- →Adoption dashboards
Decides what an RIA automates next, what stays human, and how the two hand off.
How to land — and survive — as a RIA Operations Lead
- Step 1 · Free · play nowRun the Skill DNA drill — see where you stand on Wealth Management Lifecycle & OperationsHands-on drill
A fast, scenario-based self-assessment. Replayable, no signup, 5–10 minutes. Different from the multiple-choice quizzes further down the page.
- Step 2 · Premium · full playbookRIA Operations Lead playbook (preview)
Hand-curated checklists, real templates, and the failure modes nobody documents — see the first 30% free.
Preview - Step 3 · 1:1 · operator sessionMock interview with an operator
30-minute 1:1: role-specific case prompts, portfolio review, and offer-negotiation talk-track.
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