Director, Relationship Management - Family Office Services

Position: DIRECTOR, RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - FAMILY OFFICE SERVICES
About Cresset Cresset is a firm built by clients, for clients. As an independent, award-winning multi-family office and private investment firm, we are reimagining the way wealth is experienced. Our purpose is to help ensure that both wealth and life are fully optimized—integrated, intentional, and aligned with each client’s vision of success.

We provide access to the caliber of talent, ideas, and investment opportunities typically available to the largest single-family offices and institutions. Our approach is personalized, entrepreneurial, and client-first.

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Key Responsibilities The Family Office Relationship Manager serves as the primary relationship lead and trusted advisor for Ultra-High Net Worth (UHNW) individuals and families, overseeing the coordination of complex personal, financial, insurance, operational, governance and education, and lifestyle matters across the family office environment. This role is responsible for developing and executing the overall relationship strategy for assigned families while cultivating deep, long-term relationships built on trust, responsiveness, discretion, and exceptional service delivery.

The Relationship Manager ensures the seamless execution of highly customized services aligned with each family’s unique objectives, values, governance structures, and legacy priorities, while maintaining accountability for client satisfaction, relationship retention, and opportunities for service expansion and growth.

Acting as the central point of orchestration across the family office ecosystem, the Family Office Relationship Manager partners closely with internal teams, external advisors, and specialized service providers to coordinate integrated service delivery and ensure continuity, accountability, and a consistently elevated client experience. This role oversees the customization and implementation of family office service models based on evolving client needs and serves as the primary escalation point for complex or sensitive client matters, exercising sound judgment, professionalism, and problem-solving capabilities to resolve issues effectively and maintain client trust.

The ideal candidate combines exceptional relationship management skills, operational leadership, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, discretion, and organizational excellence with the ability to navigate sophisticated family dynamics, manage competing priorities, and lead through complexity. This individual is expected to provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior team members while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, responsiveness, and client-first service excellence.

Relationship Management Serve as the primary relationship lead and trusted point of contact for UHNW individuals and families.

Develop a deep understanding of each client’s personal preferences, family dynamics, governance structures, philanthropic interests, and long-term priorities.

Build and maintain trusted, multigenerational relationships through proactive communication, responsiveness, transparency, and exceptional service delivery.

Anticipate client needs and proactively coordinate solutions that simplify complexity and enhance the overall family office experience.

Develop customized relationship plans, meeting agendas, presentations, and follow-up action items to support evolving family objectives.

Serve as a central strategic liaison across family stakeholders and advisory networks as needed.

Maintain the highest standards of confidentiality, professionalism, and discretion in all client interactions.

Utilize Salesforce as the system of record for client data and activity.

Family Office Coordination & Oversight Coordinate the…