Reliever is the back office for youth sports. Backed and co-founded by Rally Ventures, we are building a purpose-built financial operating system for the volunteer-run nonprofit associations that power community sports across America. These organizations move hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year through dues, fundraisers, sponsorships, and charitable gambling, all managed by volunteers on nights and weekends. These associations carry real financial complexity: dozens of team bank accounts, contractor payments, Form 990 and UBIT obligations, state gambling compliance, and board-level fiduciary duty. Yet they are too small to afford professional financial staff, and the tools they use today were never designed for them: spreadsheets, personal QuickBooks files, email chains, and paper checks. Reliever replaces that patchwork with one platform that combines modern software, embedded banking, and professional accounting services, so every board can prove every dollar reached the kids. We are a funded, pre-seed-stage company launching with anchor design partners in the Minnesota hockey market in the second half of 2026. You would join as one of the first hires on the founding team, working directly with the CEO and leadership. This is a hybrid role based in Minnesota, working from our Minneapolis office. Candidates must currently reside in, or be relocating to, Minnesota. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. **THE ROLE** You will be Reliever’s first engineering hire and the future owner of its codebase. The initial product build is underway with our development partner, Blank Metal, using a harness architecture in which AI agents do much of the building inside a framework of specifications, tests, and human review. You will embed with the Blank Metal team from day one, contributing to the build, learning the architecture from the inside, and preparing for a clean handoff. Once the platform transitions in-house, you own it: the codebase, the architecture, the AI systems, and the development roadmap. This is AI/ML engineering in two senses. The product itself is AI-native, with intelligence in the daily close, transaction categorization, document processing, and compliance logic. And the way we build is AI-native too: Reliever is an AI-first company where every engineer works with agents, and the harness is the development environment, not an experiment. The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer who has shipped production AI systems and wants to own an entire fintech platform, not one service within it. **WHAT YOU’LL DO** **Build with Blank Metal, then own the platform** - Embed with Blank Metal during the initial product build, contributing production code and working fluently within the harness architecture of agent-driven development, specifications, automated tests, and human review - Lead the technical handoff: absorb the architecture, the harness, and the operational runbooks so that ownership transfers to Reliever without losing velocity - Own post-handoff development end to end, including architecture decisions, the release process, code quality, and the engineering roadmap - Hold the platform to fintech-grade standards for reliability, security, and data protection. This system moves real money for real communities and supports SOC 2 readiness - Integrate and maintain our banking-as-a-service, card issuing, and accounting integrations as the platform grows **Build the AI core** - Design, ship, and improve the AI/ML systems at the heart of the product: transaction categorization, automated reconciliation, the AI daily close, document extraction for receipts and tax forms, and compliance logic for nonprofit filings - Build the evaluation, guardrail, and human-in-the-loop patterns that let AI operate safely in a financial system of record - Extend the harness itself: better agent workflows, better tests, better tooling, so the platform gets easier to build on over time - Orchestrate your own pod of AI agents for development support, consistent with Reliever’s AI-first operating model in which every human hire is amplified by agents - Partner with our founding Product Manager and founding CPA to turn accounting expertise and user stories into working software **WHAT YOU BRING** - **A strong software engineering foundation with production AI/ML experience.** You have shipped systems that use LLMs, agents, or ML models in production, and you can build the conventional software around them just as well - **Fluency in AI-native development practices.** You use AI agents and AI-assisted coding as a core part of how you work, and you are comfortable operating inside an agent harness with specs, evals, and automated tests - Experience collaborating with external or distributed engineering teams, and the judgment to take ownership of a codebase you did not start - Experience in a startup or early-stage environment. You are energized by ambiguity, comfortable creating process rather than inheriting it, and biased to ship - A pragmatic engineering sensibility. You choose boring technology where it belongs, apply AI where it earns its place, and write code others can maintain **NICE TO HAVE** - A genuine passion for youth sports, or experience volunteering with youth sports organizations. You understand the people this product serves - Experience improving professional services with AI, in fields such as accounting, legal, or tax - Fintech experience, especially banking-as-a-service platforms, card issuing, payments, or ledger systems - Familiarity with accounting data, bookkeeping automation, or document-heavy ML problems such as OCR and extraction **WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT** - Founding-team seat at a venture-backed company co-founded with Rally Ventures, with your fingerprints on the architecture, the product, and the company itself - Full ownership of an entire AI-native fintech platform, inherited at handoff and yours to grow, a scope most engineers wait a decade to reach - A mission that matters in your own community, giving volunteers their nights and weekends back and protecting the money families entrust to youth sports

Reliever is the back office for youth sports. Backed and co-founded by Rally Ventures, we are building a purpose-built financial operating system for the volunteer-run nonprofit associations that power community sports across America. These organizations move hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year through dues, fundraisers, sponsorships, and charitable gambling, all managed by volunteers on nights and weekends. These associations carry real financial complexity: dozens of team bank accounts, contractor payments, Form 990 and UBIT obligations, state gambling compliance, and board-level fiduciary duty. Yet they are too small to afford professional financial staff, and the tools they use today were never designed for them: spreadsheets, personal QuickBooks files, email chains, and paper checks. Reliever replaces that patchwork with one platform that combines modern software, embedded banking, and professional accounting services, so every board can prove every dollar reached the kids. We are a funded, pre-seed-stage company launching with anchor design partners in the Minnesota hockey market in the second half of 2026. You would join as one of the first hires on the founding team, working directly with the CEO and leadership. **THE ROLE** This is not a backlog-administration seat. You will be Reliever’s first product hire, and you will own the product lifecycle end to end: from discovery with real volunteer treasurers, through definition and prioritization, to delivery with our engineering team and iteration after launch. The platform you will shape spans bookkeeping and reporting, team card programs, embedded banking, and nonprofit tax and compliance. It is a genuinely deep product surface for a founding PM. Reliever is an AI-first company, and this role is AI-first product management. You will run a modern, AI-assisted product development practice, using AI best practices to convert epics into clear, developable user stories, generate and refine specifications, and keep a small engineering team moving at an uncommon pace. The ideal candidate has done this inside a startup before, staying close to engineers, close to customers, and comfortable building the process rather than inheriting it. **WHAT YOU’LL DO** **Own the product lifecycle** - Own the product roadmap end to end, from discovery and requirements through design collaboration, prioritization, agile delivery, launch, and post-launch iteration, across the full Reliever platform - Translate company strategy and design-partner feedback into well-formed epics, and drive them to shipped software with clear success metrics for every release - Apply AI best practices and tooling to decompose epics into developable, testable user stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases, and compliance logic that engineers can build from without rework - Run the delivery cadence hand in hand with our engineering team and external development partner, covering sprint planning, backlog health, story acceptance, and release management - Sit in design-partner sessions with real association treasurers and board members, translating their pain into requirements and their workflows into product **Build the AI-native product practice** - Establish the specs, templates, prompt libraries, and AI-assisted workflows that let one PM do the work of a product team - Orchestrate your own pod of AI agents for research, documentation, story generation, and QA support, consistent with Reliever’s AI-first operating model in which every human hire is amplified by agents - Partner with our founding CPA to encode accounting workflows, internal controls, and compliance logic into product requirements, turning professional expertise into software - Help shape pricing, packaging, and the product roadmap as an early voice on the founding team **WHAT YOU BRING** - **Demonstrated skill across all aspects of the software product lifecycle**, from discovery and definition through design, delivery, launch, and iteration, with shipped products to show for it - **Hands-on experience using AI best practices to convert epics into developable user stories.** You have made AI-assisted requirements writing a working part of a real delivery process, not an experiment - A track record of working closely with engineering teams. You are embedded in the sprint cadence, trusted by engineers, and fluent in technical trade-off conversations - Experience in a startup or early-stage environment. You are energized by ambiguity, comfortable creating process rather than inheriting it, and biased to ship - Exceptional written communication. Your specs, stories, and decision docs are clear enough to build from **NICE TO HAVE** - A genuine passion for youth sports, or experience volunteering with youth sports organizations. You understand the people this product serves - Experience improving professional services with AI, in fields such as accounting, legal, or tax - Fintech, embedded banking, payments, or accounting-workflow product experience - Familiarity with nonprofit operations, volunteer-run organizations, or association management **WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT** - Founding-team seat at a venture-backed company co-founded with Rally Ventures, with your fingerprints on the product, the process, and the company itself - A full-stack product surface spanning software, banking, cards, and compliance that most PMs wait a career to own - A mission that matters in your own community, giving volunteers their nights and weekends back and protecting the money families entrust to youth sports **LOCATION & HOW TO APPLY** This is a hybrid role based in Minnesota, working from our Minneapolis and Stillwater, Minnesota offices up to three days per week. Candidates must currently reside in, or be relocating to, Minnesota.

# **ABOUT RELIEVER** Reliever is the back office for youth sports. Backed and co-founded by Rally Ventures, we are building a purpose-built financial operating system for the volunteer-run nonprofit associations that power community sports across America - organizations that move hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year through dues, fundraisers, sponsorships, and charitable gambling, all managed by volunteers on nights and weekends. These associations carry real financial complexity, with dozens of team bank accounts, contractor payments, Form 990 and UBIT obligations, state gambling compliance, and board-level fiduciary duty, but they are too small to afford professional financial staff.  The tools they use today were never designed for them: spreadsheets, personal QuickBooks files, email chains, and paper checks.  Reliever replaces that patchwork with one platform that combines modern software, embedded banking, and professional accounting services - so every board can prove every dollar reached the kids. We are a funded, pre-seed-stage company launching with anchor design partners in the Minnesota hockey market in the second half of 2026. You would join as one of the first hires on the founding team, working directly with the CEO and leadership. This is a hybrid role based in the Twin Cities metro, working from our Minneapolis, Minnesota office. Candidates must currently reside in, or be relocating to, the Twin Cities metro area. # **THE ROLE** This is not a traditional staff accountant seat at a firm. You will be the credentialed professional at the center of Reliever’s service delivery and will be personally delivering accounting, bookkeeping, audit-readiness, and tax preparation and filing to our youth sports association clients. Just as importantly, you will help us reimagine what the back office for youth sports should look like: your judgment, your workflows, and your treasurer’s instincts will be built directly into the product. The ideal candidate has lived both sides of this problem, as a practicing CPA and as a treasurer or board officer of a youth sports organization. You know what the monthly close feels like at 11pm on a school night, and you want to fix it for everyone. # **WHAT YOU’LL DO** **Client delivery** - Own monthly bookkeeping, reconciliation, and financial reporting for a portfolio of youth sports association clients, including organization and team-level accounts - Prepare and file federal and state returns for nonprofit clients — Form 990, 990-EZ, and 990-T (UBIT) — and manage the full contractor lifecycle from W-9 collection through 1099 filing - Support state compliance obligations, including charitable gambling reporting and sales tax filings - Prepare clients for board-directed and state-mandated audits with clean workpapers, documentation, and internal controls, working alongside independent audit firms (Reliever prepares books; we do not audit them) - Deliver board-ready monthly treasurer’s reports and advise volunteer boards on budgets, internal controls, and fiduciary best practices **Building the future of the back office** - Work with product and engineering to encode accounting workflows, controls, and compliance logic into the Reliever platform — turning your expertise into software that simplifies and automates workflows using AI - Define the service playbooks, chart-of-accounts standards, and close processes that will let Reliever serve hundreds of associations - Sit in on design-partner sessions with real treasurers; translate their pain into product requirements - Help shape pricing, packaging, and the professional-services roadmap as an early voice on the founding team # **WHAT YOU BRING** - **Active, registered CPA license** in good standing (Minnesota licensure or ability to obtain promptly) - Hands-on experience delivering bookkeeping, accounting, tax preparation and filing, and audit-prep support.  Nonprofit experience strongly preferred - **Direct experience as a treasurer or financially responsible board officer of a youth sports organization** — you have lived this customer’s reality - A genuine passion for sports and community organizations that make them possible - A builder’s mindset: strong innovator and problem solver, energized by ambiguity, comfortable creating processes rather than inheriting them - Comfort in an early-stage, entrepreneurial environment — with the stability of secured venture funding behind it - Based in the Twin Cities metro and able to work in a hybrid setting across our Minneapolis and Stillwater offices # **NICE TO HAVE** - Experience with Form 990-T / UBIT positions, Minnesota Gambling Control Board reporting, or multi-account nonprofit environments - Familiarity with QuickBooks Online and modern fintech / accounting automation tools - Experience serving or advising volunteer-run organizations, associations, or clubs # **WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT** - Founding-team seat at a venture-backed company co-founded with Rally Ventures — your fingerprints on the product, the service, and the company itself - Your work compounds: every process you design gets encoded into software that serves the next hundred associations - A mission that matters in your own community — giving volunteers their nights and weekends back and protecting the money families entrust to youth sports