Associate, Platform Engagement

New York, NY | Austin, TX | King of Prussia, PA | Phoenix, AZ

Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States.

Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.

Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third‑party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers. To learn more, visit

The Platform Engagement Associate will play a crucial role in ensuring both newly onboarded and existing clients fully realize the value of the Vestwell platform. The role focuses on reviewing client adoption and engagement metrics to identify and remediate gaps in platform utilization—particularly opportunities to increase employee participation in workplace retirement savings plans—and then work with individual clients as well as roll out programmatic strategies to increase utilization.

This position requires a proactive, data‑driven problem solver who understands client engagement, operational strategy, and platform adoption tactics. You should be adept at identifying challenges and creating tailored solutions to achieve agreed‑upon KPIs. You need to be willing and able to analyze data as well as engage directly with our clients.

A person who would thrive in this role is a structured problem solver who can quickly get to the heart of an issue, is facile with a spreadsheet, and is scrappy, self‑starter, determined, logical, and analytical. You must have the interpersonal skills, tenacity, and common sense to be an agent of change, both internally and with our clients. In this role, you will be given agency to devise a strategy and approach for achieving your goals, requiring you to exercise good judgment and independently drive results.

• Client Engagement Analysis:
  Monitor and analyze client adoption of the Vestwell platform, with a focus on employee participation and contribution rates.
• Opportunity Identification:
  Identify clients with suboptimal platform engagement and assess the underlying causes, such as plan configuration issues, employer support gaps, or employee awareness challenges.
• Remediation Strategies:
  Develop and execute action plans to address low adoption rates, owning communication campaigns end‑to‑end, platform features, or operational adjustments.
• Data‑Driven Insights:
  Track, analyze, and report key utilization metrics, creating dashboards and presentations for internal stakeholders and leadership.
• Client Advisory:
  Consult with clients on best practices for driving employee participation and optimizing plan configurations. Providing resources, toolkits, and offering enrollment meeting. Creating playbooks from learned practices to allow for scalability across our platform.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Recommend and program manage scalable improvements to processes, technology, and engagement strategies based on client feedback and data insights.
• Client Profitability Remediation: Work through the sponsor revenue and expense model to validate loss leaders. Identify and present remediation steps to improve profitability including payroll or operational changes, fee increases or termination of the relationship.
• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Demonstrated ability and flexibility to seamlessly transition between projects and workflows, contributing to various teams as needed to meet evolving business needs and priorities.

• 2‑4 years of experience in client engagement, business operations, product adoption, or strategic consulting.
• Strong understanding of retirement savings platforms, SaaS solutions, or financial services technology.
• Proven track record…