Director of Tax Strategy / Advanced Planning
Location: Cleveland, OH (In-office)
Compensation: Starting base salary of $200,000+ (higher depending on experience) plus bonus
Relocation: Relocation allowance available
Company: Strategic Wealth Partners
Strategic Wealth Partners is building a true multi-family office for ultra-high-net-worth clients, including founders, CEOs, executives, business owners, and families navigating significant wealth creation, transition, and legacy planning.
As our firm continues moving up-market, we are expanding the depth of our advanced planning capabilities. One of the most important additions to our team will be a Director of Tax Strategy / Advanced Planning — an attorney who can help design proactive, sophisticated, and highly personalized strategies for our most important clients.
This is not a traditional law firm role.
There are no billable-hour requirements. You will not be grinding away on cookie-cutter documents or cranking out repetitive work. Instead, this role is about strategy, creativity, and impact.
We often compare the role to the homebuilding process. Our Director of Tax Strategy / Advanced Planning serves as the architect. You will help design the blueprint — identifying needle-moving strategies that can help clients mitigate income tax, capital gains tax, and estate tax while coordinating with the broader team to bring those strategies to life.
The right person will love solving complex problems, working directly with successful families and entrepreneurs, and seeing the real-world impact of their ideas.
About Strategic Wealth Partners
Strategic Wealth Partners is an independent wealth management firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. We serve high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth families with comprehensive wealth management, investment management, financial planning, estate planning coordination, tax strategy, business succession planning, risk management, and family office services.
Our clients are often founders, business owners, executives, and families who have accumulated meaningful wealth and need a coordinated team around them. As we continue to build out our multi-family office, we are looking for exceptional professionals who want to do more than provide traditional advice. We want people who want to help shape the future of the firm and materially improve client outcomes.
The Role
The Director of Tax Strategy / Advanced Planning will work closely with our advisors, investment team, planning team, CPAs, estate attorneys, and outside legal and tax professionals to identify, design, and coordinate advanced planning strategies for our highest-value client relationships.
This person will help clients think proactively about the issues that matter most: reducing income tax drag, preparing for business exits, transferring wealth efficiently, protecting family assets, coordinating charitable giving, and building long-term legacy plans.
The ideal candidate is an attorney with experience in tax, M&A, business succession, estate planning, or closely related areas. We are looking for someone who can understand complex legal and tax concepts, translate them into practical strategies, and communicate them clearly to clients and internal team members.
Key Responsibilities
Develop proactive tax and advanced planning strategies for high-income, high-net-worth, and ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Identify opportunities to mitigate income tax, capital gains tax, and estate tax through thoughtful planning.
Advise on strategies related to business sales, liquidity events, concentrated stock positions, equity compensation, charitable planning, estate planning, asset protection, business succession, and family wealth transfer.
Work directly with founders, CEOs, executives, business owners, and affluent families to understand their goals and planning opportunities.
Collaborate with SWP advisors and internal planning professionals to integrate tax strategy into broader wealth management plans.
Coordinate with clients’ outside CPAs, estate attorneys, corporate attorneys, and other professionals to ensure successful implementation.
Serve as an internal advanced planning resource for SWP’s advisor team.
Help educate clients and team members on sophisticated planning concepts in a clear, practical, and actionable way.
Contribute to the continued buildout of SWP’s multi-family office platform.
Stay current on tax law, estate planning developments, business succession strategies, and planning opportunities relevant to high-net-worth families.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is highly intelligent, strategic, curious, and impact-driven. You enjoy working on complex planning issues, but you also know how to explain sophisticated ideas in plain English.
You may currently be working at a law firm and looking for a role with more purpose, better work-life balance, and closer client impact. You may enjoy tax, estate, M&A, or business succession work, but not the traditional law firm model. You may be tired of billable hours and want to apply your technical knowledge in a more entrepreneurial, client-centered environment.
This role is built for someone who wants to be the architect — not the document factory.
Qualifications
J.D. required.
Approximately 3+ years of relevant experience at a law firm, accounting firm, family office, wealth management firm, or similar professional services environment.
Experience in one or more of the following areas: tax planning, estate planning, M&A, business succession, corporate transactions, executive compensation, charitable planning, or advanced wealth planning.
Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. state.
Ohio law license preferred but not required, provided the candidate is willing to become licensed in Ohio.
Strong understanding of income tax, capital gains tax, estate tax, and wealth transfer planning concepts.
Ability to work directly with high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Strong communication skills and ability to simplify complex strategies for clients and advisors.
Collaborative mindset and willingness to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Entrepreneurial, proactive, and intellectually curious.
High attention to detail, strong judgment, and the ability to handle confidential client matters with discretion.
Why This Role Is Different
This is not a billable-hours role.
This is not a document-production role.
This is not a traditional law firm track.
This is a strategic, in-house advanced planning role inside a growing multi-family office.
You will have the opportunity to work directly with highly successful clients on some of the most important financial decisions of their lives. You will help design strategies that may save families millions of dollars in taxes, improve business exit outcomes, protect wealth, and create lasting legacies.
For the right person, this is a rare opportunity to use your legal and tax background in a more rewarding, more balanced, and more impactful way.
Compensation and Benefits
Starting base salary of $200,000 plus bonus.
Relocation allowance available.
Opportunity to play a key role in building SWP’s multi-family office platform.
Direct exposure to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Collaborative team environment.
Better work-life balance than a traditional law firm environment.
Long-term growth opportunity within a fast-growing wealth management firm.
How to Apply
If you are an attorney with a strong background in tax, estate planning, M&A, business succession, or advanced wealth planning — and you are looking for a role where you can make a meaningful impact without the billable-hour grind — we would love to hear from you.
Please submit your resume and a brief note explaining why this opportunity is of interest.
Pay: $200,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Continuing education credits
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Opportunities for advancement
- Paid time off
- Relocation assistance
- Stock options
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
