Work on the slow, hard problem.
Wealth management runs on trust, regulation, and decades of relationship. We're hiring engineers and operators who see that as the interesting part.
We hire slowly. Five rounds. We talk to references. The bar is high because the customers are.
- We optimize for the advisor’s day, not the advisor’s clicks.
The right metric is hours of evening reading replaced by morning approval. Engagement is a vanity number; recovered time is the real one.
- Sources, not summaries.
Every claim Drift makes ties back to the document, the position, or the policy it came from. If we can’t cite it, we don’t say it.
- The boring part is the product.
Permissions, retention, audit logs, sub-processor lists. The work that nobody demos is the work that earns the seat.
- Slow software, fast cycles.
We ship every day to a small number of customers and listen carefully. Pace of learning is what matters, not pace of release notes.
- Hire on judgment.
Anyone we hire could be running their own thing in five years. Most of us have. The bar is high because the customers are.
- Write things down.
Decisions are documents. Documents survive. Slack threads do not. The advisor lives by the written record; so do we.