Regional Director—Recruiting & Growth (Remote)

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Health insurance

401k plan

Pension

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Thrivent is seeking a Regional Director – Recruiting and Business Development to lead experienced advisor recruiting and growth in the assigned region. This role develops a disciplined regional plan to attract, engage, evaluate, and recruit experienced financial advisors and advisory teams who align with Thrivent’s purpose and values.

This senior, market-facing role represents Thrivent and requires travel within the US to partner with leaders, events, and candidate meetings, while delivering a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in financial services, recruiting, business development, sales leadership, or related relationship-based roles.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing regional recruiting, business development, or market growth strategies with measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to source, engage, evaluate, and influence experienced financial advisor or comparable professional talent through long-cycle recruiting or business development processes.
• Strong understanding of financial advisor practices, including production, assets under management, book composition, client relationships, practice growth, transition considerations, and affiliation decision factors.
• Knowledge of financial services affiliation models, including 1099, W-2/statutory, team-based, and RIA-related structures.
• Clean compliance record and satisfactory background check.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly within the assigned region and for candidate meetings, recruiting events, conferences, and internal meetings as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develops and owns a regional experienced advisor recruiting plan aligned to Thrivent’s Distribution strategy, regional capacity growth goals, market opportunities, and field leader priorities.
• Leads targeted regional sourcing strategies to identify, attract, and engage experienced financial advisors and advisory teams aligned to Thrivent’s recruiting profile, including advisors who value purpose-based advice, advisor community, practice growth support, and Thrivent’s brand and resources.
• Builds and maintains a robust regional recruiting pipeline through referrals, field leader partnerships, professional networks, centers of influence, industry relationships, external partners, events, and targeted outreach.
• Partners with market leaders to identify priority markets, advisor prospects, succession opportunities, team recruiting targets, and capacity gaps that can be addressed through experienced advisor recruiting.
• Conducts senior-level discovery and selection conversations with experienced advisors and teams to understand practice goals, production, assets under management, book composition, client profile, affiliation preferences, transition needs, cultural alignment, and long-term growth potential.
• Presents Thrivent’s advisor value proposition in a way that is relevant to each candidate’s practice, including Thrivent’s purpose and generosity orientation, advisor community, practice solutions, wealth management capabilities, transition support, and affiliation options.

Skills

Regional recruiting strategy

Sourcing and engagement

Stakeholder coordination

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM tools

Recruiting platforms

Job description

Thrivent is seeking a Regional Director – Recruiting and Business Development to lead experienced advisor recruiting and growth in the assigned region. This role develops a disciplined regional plan to attract, engage, evaluate, and recruit experienced financial advisors and advisory teams who align with Thrivent’s purpose and values.

This senior, market-facing role represents Thrivent and requires travel within the US to partner with leaders, events, and candidate meetings, while delivering a