Director of Engineering, Product & AI
AI summary of the role
Director of Engineering leading all product engineering teams at an AI-native RIA platform, overseeing multiple product lines including an advisor-facing AI product.
What you’ll do
- Own engineering execution across product lines, partnering with Product and Design to turn business priorities into achievable plans.
- Shape the product engineering organization: team structure, ownership boundaries, staffing, and tradeoffs between established products, new capabilities, and technical debt.
- Set technical direction across teams, guiding architecture and shared capabilities with tech leads.
- Stay involved in consequential design and code reviews, using prototypes and debugging to resolve uncertainty.
What you’ll bring
- Experience managing multiple engineering teams simultaneously with accountability for delivery, staffing, performance, and growth.
- Track record of delivering complex customer-facing products with measurable business results.
- Strong engineering depth and current system-design judgment (data models, service boundaries, integrations, failure modes).
- Technical fluency with applied AI: evaluate LLM-based approaches, understand quality and failure modes.
Technologies
AI · LLM · agentic workflows · Claude · system design · data models · integrations · observability · security · prototyping
About Savvy
AI-native RIA platform giving independent financial advisors proprietary software, investment/tax/planning infrastructure, marketing, compliance, and back-office support while they keep client ownership.
Series B · 100–200 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
Newsweek's America's Greatest Startup Workplaces (2026) Fortune Best Workplaces in New York™ (2026) Great Place to Work Certified™ The role Savvy is hiring an Engineering Director, Product & AI to lead all engineering teams building our products. You’ll oversee multiple product lines, including our advisor-facing AI product, each with its own Engineering, Product, and Design team. You’ll own engineering strategy, execution, and organizational development across those teams, partnering with Product and Design leaders to decide where to invest and what to build next. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll guide architecture, work through difficult decisions with tech leads, and show what good looks like in both the systems we build and how we deliver them. You should be comfortable reviewing a consequential change, challenging an implementation plan, or building a
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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 tea [... source excerpt omitted ...] Based at our NYC headquarters, you’ll work alongside Product, Design, and business stakeholders while leading multiple engineering teams focused on Savvy's growing product lines. Responsibilities Own engineering execution across product lines. Partner with Product and Design to turn business priorities into achievable plans. Set clear commitments, resolve cross-team dependencies, and intervene when scope, staffing, or technical decisions put delivery at risk. Navigate the world of engineering leadership and teams as AI changes everything. Everyone can do so much more now, lines between roles are blurring. Drive this change across your teams. Shape the product engineering organizat [... source excerpt omitted ...] reviews. Use prototypes, debugging, and direct technical guidance to resolve uncertainty, demonstrate better approaches, and help teams execute. Connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes. Understand how advisors use our products, challenge work that does not solve the underlying problem, and help teams assess whether shipped capabilities deliver the intended value. Hold teams accountable for production quality. Set expectations for testing, security, observability, and reliability. Ensure teams own what they ship and address recurring problems rather than repeatedly working around them. Build out your teams, driving for the best talent and skills. Beyond
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