Accelerator Partnerships Lead

Join Rho, a fast-growing financial platform for startups. As the Accelerator Partnerships Lead, you will own relationships with top accelerator programs in your market, drive Rho adoption among founders, and represent Rho at key industry events. You will work closely with sales, marketing, and product teams to ensure the success of Rho in the startup ecosystem. This role is based in either New York City or San Francisco.

• Establish and maintain primary relationships with Managing Directors, Group Partners, and program leads at high-signal accelerators, ensuring Rho is the first call for financial platform needs.
• Drive Rho adoption within each cohort from first conversation through activation, with clear conversion targets and a structured follow-up cadence.
• Build and run founder-facing programming—office hours, workshops, fireside chats, roundtables—that delivers genuine value, not marketing disguised as content.
• You are hungry to own a market category, not manage a program, and you are motivated by outsized, compounding impact
• You have built or operated programs, events, workshops, or office hours that founders actually wanted to attend
• Founders trust you. You add value before asking for anything, and you know the difference between being a vendor and being a resource
• You are fluent in early-stage startup finance, fundraising dynamics, and the operational realities of early-stage companies—founders don't have to explain their world to you
• You have 2–4 years of experience in VC partnerships, channel partnerships, or founder-facing GTM roles at a high-growth startup or venture-backed company—or you are a founder yourself
• You are embedded in the startup ecosystem in your target market—you know the accelerators, the programs, the operators, and the MDs, and they know you. You have direct, existing relationships inside the top programs in your geo; not peripheral familiarity, but real credibility with the people who run them
• You balance long-term relationship depth with short-term pipeline accountability. You can manage a 12-month partner relationship arc and a quarterly acquisition target simultaneously