Careers

Associate Advisor (Wealth Management)

Career Path to Financial Advisor

Career Progression: Associate Advisor → Financial Advisor → Senior Financial Advisor → Senior Wealth Manager

About the Role

Peak American Investment Advisors is seeking an ambitious Associate Advisor looking to build a long-term career in wealth management. This role is designed for financial professionals who want to become a lead Financial Advisor while learning directly from experienced advisors and working with affluent clients.

Unlike traditional sales roles focused primarily on outbound prospecting, the majority of your time will be spent speaking with individuals who have already expressed interest in our services and scheduled meetings with our team. Your role is to conduct brief qualification conversations, understand each prospective client’s situation, and ensure they are routed to the appropriate Financial Advisor for a productive consultation.

In addition, you will have access to thousands of prospective client records and opportunities to proactively generate additional appointments for our advisory team.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct qualification calls with prospective clients who have already scheduled appointments
• Evaluate client fit, financial complexity, and service needs
• Route qualified prospects to the appropriate Financial Advisor based on client profile and needs
• Confirm appointment readiness and improve advisor meeting quality
• Identify opportunities to schedule additional consultations from existing prospect databases
• Maintain accurate client notes and records within CRM systems
• Collaborate closely with Financial Advisors to maximize client conversion rates
• Consistently achieve appointment-setting and qualification KPIs
• Deliver a professional, consultative client experience throughout the discovery process
• Help drive firm growth through efficient lead management and client engagement

Compensation

• Base Salary: $60,000 annually (guaranteed and does not decrease)
• Bonus paid for every qualified appointment that is set and held
• Additional bonus paid for appointments that convert into clients
• Strong earning potential tied directly to performance and client outcomes

Career Path

This role is intentionally designed as a feeder system into our Financial Advisor career track.

Successful Associate Advisors who consistently achieve performance metrics and demonstrate advisory aptitude will have the opportunity to advance into:

1. Financial Advisor
2. Senior Financial Advisor
3. Senior Wealth Advisor

This position offers a clear and structured path toward a long-term advisory career within a growing wealth management organization.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as:
  • Associate Advisor or Account Executive within financial services
  • Internal Wholesaler
  • Financial Advisor
  • Related financial sales or client-facing role
• Active Series 65 license required
• Strong consultative communication and discovery skills
• Ability to quickly assess client needs and qualification criteria
• Experience working with CRM systems and managing prospect pipelines
• Self-motivated, organized, and goal-oriented
• Desire to build a long-term career as a Financial Advisor

Ideal Candidate

• Enjoys client conversations and relationship building
• Thrives in a fast-paced, KPI-driven environment
• Wants a defined path into wealth management and financial planning
• Comfortable balancing inbound qualification calls with proactive appointment generation
• Excited to contribute to a high-growth advisory firm

You’ve already proven you can win business. Now you’re ready to own the client relationship. 

If you’ve built a strong track record in financial or consultative sales but are still waiting for the opportunity to fully lead client relationships, this is your chance to make that move. 

At Peak American, you’ll have the autonomy to advise clients, build comprehensive financial strategies, and grow a long-term book of business—without having to build everything from scratch. 

We provide qualified leads, appointment setting, marketing support, modern planning technology, ongoing coaching, and a strong back-office infrastructure. You bring the drive, judgment, and ability to build trust. 

The result is a career where you can grow your income, your client impact, and your ownership in what you’re helping build. 

What You Can Expect

• $85,000 Year 1 base salary + commission 

• $165,000–$200,000 expected Year 1 compensation 

• Uncapped compensation 

• Qualified Leads 

• Full marketing support at no cost to the advisor, including branding, social media, and appointment-setting tools 

• Modern financial planning software, CRM, and technology 

• Ongoing sales, planning, and advisor-development coaching 

• Back-office support that lets you spend more time with clients and growing your business 

About Peak American

Peak American is one of the fastest-growing Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) in the country. We’re building a modern advisory firm around a simple idea: give talented advisors the support, resources, and opportunity to do their best work for clients. 

We believe financial advice should be personal—not transactional. 

Our advisors act as fiduciaries, taking the time to understand what matters most to each client and developing strategies designed around their goals, families, and financial lives. 

That also means we do things differently for advisors. 

We expect our advisors to grow, but growth comes from earning trust, creating value, developing relationships, and delivering an exceptional client experience. 

You’ll have meaningful autonomy without being left on your own. 

What You’ll Do

As a Financial Advisor at Peak, you’ll own the client relationship from the initial conversation through ongoing planning and advice: 

• Lead discovery conversations to understand each client’s goals, values, priorities, and financial challenges 

• Develop comprehensive strategies across investments, retirement, insurance, tax, and estate planning 

• Guide clients through important financial decisions with clarity and confidence 

• Grow your business through qualified opportunities provided by Peak, referrals, and proactive relationship development 

• Deliver a high-touch, white-glove experience from the first meeting through long-term relationship management 

• Build lasting relationships that create opportunities for referrals and additional growth 

• Participate in ongoing sales and financial-planning training to continuously improve your craft 

• Operate with autonomy while leveraging Peak’s marketing, technology, coaching, and back-office infrastructure 

Who Thrives at Peak

This opportunity is designed for someone who is commercially driven but wants to build a career around advice and relationships—not transactional selling.  You’ll likely thrive here if you are: 

• A Trusted Relationship Builder – You know how to earn trust, ask thoughtful questions, listen carefully, and lead people toward decisions 

• Commercially Driven – You’re comfortable developing new business and understand that great advisors create opportunities rather than wait for them 

• High Ownership – You take responsibility for your results and follow through on what you commit to 

• Coachable – You actively seek feedback and are willing to practice, adjust, and improve 

• Competitive – You set ambitious goals and enjoy measuring yourself against a high standard 

• Intellectually Curious – You want to understand the “why” behind a strategy, not simply follow a script 

Your Background

We’re less interested in checking every box than we are in finding people with a demonstrated ability to build trust, generate business, and perform at a high level. Strong candidates will typically have: 

• 2+ years of success in financial services, consultative sales, or another high-performance relationship-driven environment 

• A proven track record of developing new business or growing client relationships 

• Strong communication skills and confidence presenting in person, virtually, and over the phone 

• The ability to navigate sophisticated financial conversations with professionalism and good judgment 

• Comfort using technology, including CRMs, Microsoft Office, and financial planning tools such as eMoney 

• Series 65 or 66 

• Life & Health license, or the ability to obtain it within 60 days 

• Authorization to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship 

Why Make the Move?

Maybe you’ve already proven you can sell. 

But you want more than being handed a product, a quota, or one small piece of the client relationship. 

You want to become the person clients call when the decision really matters. 

At Peak, you’ll have the opportunity to build those relationships while developing a business with meaningful earning potential. 

If you’re ready to move from winning business to owning relationships, we’d like to meet you. 

Apply today or reach out directly to start the conversation.