Pinnacle is the No. 1 Best Place to Work in Birmingham

Pinnacle Financial Partners is the No. 1 Best Place to Work in Birmingham in the medium sized category evaluated by Best Places to Work® and announced by the Birmingham Business Journal. This is the first year Pinnacle has been nominated for the list.

“We’re just overjoyed about this honor,” said Mark Imig, Pinnacle Regional President in Birmingham. “Every single person on our team won this award for us by putting teamwork above individual performance. We win together and lose together. That’s more than a motto. Everybody on the team chooses to show up and give their all to each other first so we can do our best together for clients.”

Pinnacle associates in Birmingham gave the workplace culture high marks on the anonymous Best Places to Work survey:

“A lot of banks say they care about their employees and clients, but it's just lip service. Pinnacle Financial Partners is very different from those banks. I am consistently surprised by the thoughtfulness and generosity of everyone that works here and the high level of customer service we are able to offer. Pinnacle has created and maintained a culture of belonging, and to be honest I didn't really think it was possible for a corporation to put people first. I'm so glad I work here. My life is better for it, and I really see the difference I can make helping others.”

“The team here is like family. We genuinely care about each other, and I have been a personal beneficiary of that. Our senior leaders have successfully been able to relay their cultural vision to market leaders throughout the organization such that employees are well taken care of and respected.”

The Best Places to Work winners are determined exclusively on the basis of employees' responses to standard scaled survey questions on the Best Places to Work Survey, administered and calculated by third-party employee engagement firm Quantum Workplace. The survey consists of closed and open-ended questions on culture, camaraderie, leadership transparency and other criteria.

For 20 years, Birmingham Business Journal has been honoring local businesses that have a strong commitment to creating a positive work environment that “fosters respect, comfort and engagement of its employees.”

Pinnacle entered Alabama in the summer of 2021 by hiring a team of local financial services professionals to open offices in Huntsville and Birmingham.