Relay is a digital banking platform that gives self-made business owners the tools and know-how to be great with money—bringing clarity, confidence, and control to every dollar earned, so they can turn hard work into lasting success. We do this by replacing financial guesswork with real visibility, transforming cash flow from a constant source of stress into a clear signal owners can use to run stronger, more resilient businesses.

Our mission is to increase the success rate of small businesses. Traditional banking has been a growth limiter rather than a growth enabler for business owners, and we're changing that. Relay is the all-in-one, collaborative money management platform. We're building for employer SMBs and their finance function, and we're focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience.

Relay processes millions of dollars in deposits, wires, checks, and card transactions every business day, and 321,000+ small business owners trust us with their money. The Transaction Monitoring team is why that trust is warranted. Every transaction we review is a decision: hold or release, investigate or clear. Good decisions mean legitimate business owners get their money fast and bad actors get stopped before they succeed.

We're looking for someone with real transaction monitoring experience who is curious, decisive, and excited to build with AI, not just work a queue.

What You'll Be Doing

Own the risk strategy and operating model for new products, beginning with credit and payroll

Build and manage day-to-day risk operations, ensuring reviews and decisions are timely, consistent, and high quality as volumes scale

Lead and develop the team through clear expectations, coaching, training, and ongoing feedback

Manage staffing, capacity, service levels, and operational performance across the portfolio

Partner with Product, Engineering, and other teams early in product development to identify risks and design appropriate controls

Analyze product, customer, and transaction data to understand performance, investigate issues, and uncover emerging risks

Develop, test, and optimize risk rules and strategies while balancing loss prevention, customer experience, and operational impact

Define and monitor metrics across losses, customer friction, decision quality, review volumes, and operational efficiency

Build scalable procedures, review workflows, tooling, quality controls, and escalation paths

Investigate operational and control failures, identify root causes, and translate findings into lasting improvements

Evaluate external tools, vendors, and data sources that can strengthen our risk capabilities

Communicate strategies, decisions, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Transition mature products into their long-term operating models and take on new areas as Relay grows

Use AI tools to improve analysis, investigations, documentation, and how the team works

Who You Are

You have 4+ years of experience in fraud risk, credit risk, risk strategy, transaction monitoring, or risk operations, preferably in fintech, banking, or payments

You have 2+ years of experience leading people or complex cross-functional initiatives

You have meaningful credit risk experience and understand how risk decisions affect losses, growth, operations, and customer experience

You’re proficient in SQL and can independently retrieve and analyze data using joins, aggregations, CTEs, subqueries, and window functions

You’ve built a new product, risk program, or operating model from zero to one

You combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution and can turn ideas into measurable outcomes

You understand transaction and money-movement risks across channels such as ACH, cards, wires, or checks

You’re analytical and curious, digging into the “why” and using data to make better decisions

You’re a strong communicator who can translate complex insights into clear, actionable direction

You’re highly collaborative and can navigate work across Risk, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Customer Experience