Associate Product Manager

Rho•New York, NY

7d•$133,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Rho is a modern banking platform for startups and growth-stage companies, offering accounts, cards, expense management, bill payment, and bookkeeping with human support. The Associate Product Manager joins a senior Product Manager’s team and owns a defined part of a banking product, with the opportunity to ship to customers in the first quarter. The role includes a direct mentor, regular feedback, and a goal of progressing to ownership of a product surface as a full Product Manager within 18 months. The APM learns how regulated financial products work and helps build products customers can trust with their money. The role collaborates closely with Design and Engineering and brings Compliance and Operations into product work early. It also involves regular customer conversations, data-informed decisions, and using AI tools to test ideas, prototype, analyze feedback, and draft specifications.

Requirements

1–3 years of experience in product, engineering, data, consulting, banking, at a startup, or in a customer-facing role; alternatively, experience starting something independently.
Comfort with SQL, spreadsheets, and numbers, with care in checking one’s own work.
Clear writing and the ability to explain a complex problem in one page.
Ability to receive feedback and act on it quickly.
A strong sense of ownership and willingness to fix problems or find the person who can.
Regular use of AI and an ability to demonstrate something built with it.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of ACH, card networks, KYC/KYB, or reconciliation.
A technical background or coding experience.
Experience working at a bank or fintech.
Startup experience.

Responsibilities

Own a defined feature area end to end, from framing the problem and writing specifications through launch and measuring results.
Use data to evaluate outcomes and recommend improvements or a better direction.
Work closely with Design and Engineering from initial concepts through launch; provide clear feedback on user flows and edge cases, unblock the team, and run launches end to end.
Involve Compliance and Operations early in product development and launch planning.
Speak with founders and finance teams every week, read support tickets, and bring customer insights to the team.
Define success measures before building, pull data, and clearly report what worked and what did not.
Use frontier AI models to test ideas, create prototypes, analyze customer feedback, draft specifications, and identify new ways to help customers.