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title: 'Head of Financial Crimes Compliance at Rho'
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# Head of Financial Crimes Compliance at Rho

- **Company:** Rho
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rho/17ee6652-3814-42b2-983a-786c31ab2f7a

## Job description

## About Us

Rho is the modern banking platform built for the AI era. Startups and growth-stage companies can open accounts in minutes, issue cards, manage expenses, pay bills, and close the books – all in one connected platform backed by real human support.

## About the Role

Rho is hiring its first Head of Financial Crimes Compliance to build and lead a best-in-class fraud and financial crimes program from the ground up. This leader will define the strategic vision and operational framework for detecting, preventing, and responding to complex fraud and financial crime risks across Rho’s business banking and corporate card products. Working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, and Compliance, you’ll architect scalable systems, analytics, and controls that protect our clients and platform as we continue to grow. This is a rare opportunity to establish and scale a critical function at the intersection of innovation, regulation, and trust.

## What You’ll Own

- Fraud and AML Strategy: Define, own, and continuously evolve Rho’s comprehensive fraud and financial crimes prevention and detection strategy across business banking and corporate card products.
- Advanced Fraud Detection & Analytics: Champion and partner with Data, Engineering, and Product to produce innovative fraud models, including ML models and behavioral graphs that catch synthetic entities, account takeover ( ATO), and business email compromise (BEC) before a dollar moves. You will drive continuous improvement in the technology and team.
- Onboarding & Transaction Monitoring: Own and continuously enhance business KYC/KYB and transaction monitoring processes to prevent fraud, stop bad actors, and minimize false positives while ensuring a seamless client onboarding experience.
- Critical Incident Response: Run war-room forensics on material incidents, automate remediations, and turn post-mortems into improved models and processes. Lead investigations and rapid response for high-stakes fraud cases (e.g., synthetic entities, account takeover, business email compromise), driving thorough root cause and post-mortem analysis..
- Cross-Functional Risk Control: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Compliance teams to design, launch, and iterate on controls addressing new fraud threats tied to innovative products or changing regulations.
- Build & scale the Fraud function: Hire, train, and develop a team of fraud risk analysts to support the growth of our revenue and client base.
- Drive continuous improvement and provide feedback to product, data, and engineering teams to ensure that fraud and AML models and alerts are continually improved, not just quarterly.

You Have

- Technical fluency: demonstrate expertise in applying advanced analytics to fraud problems at scale
- B2B domain knowledge: Strong understanding of fraud patterns specific to business customers, including onboarding (KYB), payment flows, and commercial account risks.
- Regulatory and Industry Acumen: Up-to-date knowledge of relevant US banking, AML, and payments regulations as well as emerging fraud schemes and prevention best practices (with an ability to adapt strategies for new regulations or evolving commercial products).
- People management: 10+ years of experience in fraud risk management and team leadership
- Customer-centricity: Strong commitment to balancing robust fraud controls with excellent customer experience, especially for commercial/B2B clients.
- Execution and Agility: Track record of driving measurable results in fast-paced, high-growth environments, and rapidly adapting to new threats or business priorities.

Our people are our most valuable asset. The salary range for this role is $200,000 - $315,000. In addition to base pay, Rho offers equity, healthcare benefits and paid time off.

## About Rho

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rho is a modern financial platform that combines business banking, corporate cards, treasury, bill pay, expense management, and accounting automation into a single connected workflow for startups and scaling companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $365M total funding per [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/rho))
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly named on the website or in widely available biographical detail (the platform was built by an internal team; the "About Us" page references the founding team as having built the platform they "wish we had when we first launched the company" [rho.co/about](https://www.rho.co/about))

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Fintech – specifically Business Banking, Spend Management, and Corporate Cards.
- **Target customers**: B2B – founders (from two-person startups to public companies), finance teams (controllers, CFOs), and business owners at all stages of growth.
- **Mission/purpose**: Built to eliminate financial busywork, enabling companies to focus on building a world-changing business. As stated on their "About Us" page: "We built the Rho platform for them… to focus less on busywork and more on activities that actually drive the business forward." [rho.co/about](https://www.rho.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **Business Checking & Savings Accounts**: FDIC-insured accounts for managing day-to-day cash flow.
- **Rho Cards**: Corporate credit cards with strict spend limits, category restrictions, and expense rules to control spending.
- **Bill Pay**: AI-powered invoice scanning, automated approval routing, and direct payments to vendors.
- **Expense Management**: Automated reimbursements and real-time transaction organization to keep compliance in check.
- **Treasury Accounts**: Earn competitive market yields on company cash that would otherwise sit idle.
- **Accounting Integrations**: Syncing across banking, cards, and treasury so books stay clean and audit-ready.
- **Rho Mobile App**: A mobile interface for on-the-go management.

All of these are offered as a connected SaaS platform. [rho.co](https://www.rho.co/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: **$365M** per [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/rho) (specific breakdown from [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhobusiness/jobs) per Crunchbase-equivalent data: $197M total across Seed ($4.9M + $2.3M), Series A ($15M), Series B ($75M), and Debt Financing ($100M) — however, the higher "Series C" figure of $365M in total funding suggests a later round occurred or different aggregator methodology).
- **Net Discrepancy Note**: Different sources report total funding inconsistently: Crunchbase data via LinkedIn shows $197M across 4 early rounds, while a newer aggregator (fastaijobs) cites $365M. This is labeled as **conflicting reports**.
- **Annual Revenue**: **$25M** as estimated by [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhobusiness/jobs) (note: may be a third-party estimate, not company-verified).
- **Notable Investors**: List includes Grid Dynamics, Capital One, American Express, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft (as employer talent sources, suggesting staff migration from these firms) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhobusiness/jobs). Debt financing (April 2021) had a single undisclosed investor; Series B (Dec 2021) had 5 investors.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of **236 employees** as of mid-2026, with **+30.2% YoY growth** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhobusiness/jobs).
  - **32 open roles** as of mid-2026 [rho.co/careers](https://www.rho.co/careers), spanning NYC, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Los Angeles, Belgrade (Serbia), Poland (remote), and US-wide remote.
  - Active hiring in engineering (Senior/Full Stack Software Engineers), Go-to-Market (Account Executives, Advisors, Startups Banking), Product (VP of Product, Product Managers, Design), and Marketing (Brand, Events, Consumer).

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Unlike piecemeal setups, Rho connects banking, cards, treasury, bill pay, and expense management in one workflow — reducing the need for 3–5 separate vendors.
- **Fast implementation**: "Get up and running quickly with hands-on onboarding and a dedicated team… response times under a minute" [rho.co](https://www.rho.co/).
- **Enterprise-grade without bloat**: "No monthly fees" and strict spend controls, while still offering features like AI invoice scanning and automated approvals.
- **Global presence**: Operating across 7 countries (US, Serbia, Poland, Philippines, UK, Switzerland, Canada) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhobusiness/jobs) enables multi-currency/regional support for scaling clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling with customers**: The platform is explicitly designed to support companies "from inception stage to IPO and beyond… never outgrow" the platform [rho.co/about](https://www.rho.co/about).
- **Hiring expansion**: Aggressively hiring across go-to-market, engineering, product, and marketing (50% monthly increase in job postings, 2000% quarterly increase) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhobusiness/jobs), signaling a major growth push.
- **Automation depth**: Focus on AI-driven features (invoice scanning, expense automation) to reduce manual finance work.
- **Treasury/Runway focus**: Emphasis on putting cash to work (treasury yields) suggests a strategic bet on serving cash-rich startups and SMBs looking to maximize runway.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlight**: Described as a place for "obsessive people" who want to "hone your craft, ship faster than you thought possible, and do the most ambitious work of your career" [rho.co/careers](https://www.rho.co/careers). The "About Us" page repeatedly emphasizes "creating delightful experiences" for customers and earning the right to serve them.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Mixed model. Roles exist in NYC (HQ), San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Los Angeles, Belgrade, and Poland (remote). Some roles are explicitly "US - Remote" or "Poland - Remote" while others specify a city (e.g., "NYC", "San Francisco"). The company has 4 offices globally (likely NYC, SF, Belgrade, and one other) [rho.co/careers](https://www.rho.co/careers).
- **Notable perks/culture signals**:
  - 32 open roles spanning multiple functions — strong signal of growth.
  - Technical staff makes up 22% of headcount; Sales 10%; Finance 9%, suggesting an engineering-led but GTM-heavy current hiring phase.
  - Talent sources include American Express (32 hires), Capital One (7), Microsoft (7), Goldman Sachs (5) — implying a strong Fintech/Finance DNA.
  - Alumni go to Rippling, Amazon, Deloitte — suggesting a pedigree similar to high-growth Fintech.
- **Engineering culture**: With 73 technical staff (22% of total), and open roles for Senior Software Engineers (Belgrade + Poland remote), Full Stack Engineers (Poland remote), and multiple Product Designers, engineering appears to be a core focus area for growth.

## Sources
1. [rho.co](https://www.rho.co/)
2. [rho.co/about](https://www.rho.co/about)
3. [rho.co/careers](https://www.rho.co/careers)
4. [LinkedIn – Rho Company Profile & Jobs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhobusiness/jobs)
5. [fastaijobs.com – Rho Careers & Jobs](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/rho)

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