Branch Manager​/Head Coach - UNR Campus

Location: 87 S Stadium Way

Remote Status: On‑Site

Job : 226

# of Openings: 1

This Is Not a Typical Branch Manager Job If you've spent your career running a teller line, hitting weekly product goals, and managing schedules in a beige lobby — this isn't the role for you, and we mean that with respect. We have those roles. This isn't one of them.

We are opening something different at the University of Nevada, Reno
: a campus space designed to graduate financially fluent adults who happen to bank with Rize for life. The person who leads this place will be part teacher, part coach, part talent developer, part community organizer, and part business builder.
They will also oversee a traditional Reno community branch (off campus) — but the campus branch is the headline, and the model we build here will eventually live on campuses across our footprint.

We are not looking for the most polished banker. We are looking for the person who can stand in front of 40 first‑year students at a residence hall workshop and make them care about a credit score — and then turn around and develop a team of student employees into the next generation of financial professionals.

Develop young people. This is the job. You will lead a team of Peer Financial Guides — undergraduates from across UNR — and your most important output is who they become. You will coach them on how to have a real conversation about money. You will teach them to read a paystub, explain APR without jargon, and recognize when a peer is in financial distress.

You will create career pathways from peer guide to senior guide to summer intern to full‑time Rize team member. Several of them will go on to careers in financial services because of you. Some won’t — and that’s a win too. They’ll carry what they learned for life.

Teach. A lot. You will personally deliver workshops on first paychecks, first credit cards, first apartments, predatory lending, NIL banking for athletes, and senior send-offs for graduating students. You will train your team to deliver them too. You will partner with UNR faculty to embed financial content into existing courses and help shape a future for‑credit financial life skills course. If teaching energizes you, this role will feel like home.

If it drains you, please don’t apply.

Live on campus, not in the lobby. Sitting behind a desk waiting for foot traffic is not the strategy. You and your team will be at orientation, move‑in week, Greek chapter meetings, multicultural org events, athletics functions, career fairs, late‑night finals study sessions, and faculty office hours. You will know the Dean of Students, the head of residence life, the athletics compliance officer, the career center director, and the business school department chairs by first name within 90 days.

Build the UNR partnership into something real. Most bank‑university partnerships are a logo on a card and a kiosk in the student union. You will push past that — research collaborations, emergency micro‑grant programs, scholarship initiatives, academic integration, NIL infrastructure. You will be the working‑level face of Rize to UNR, and you will know when to elevate to executive sponsors on both sides.

Coach, don’t sell. We measure this place differently. Yes, you will be accountable for member growth, branded card adoption, and product engagement — but the deeper scoreboard is behaviors changed. Students who built emergency funds. Students who avoided predatory credit. Students who graduated with a 700+ score and a Rize relationship intact. You will be expected to defend this longer arc when pressure mounts to optimize for short‑term branch metrics.

Run a real branch, too. You will also oversee a Reno community branch with traditional operations, compliance, risk, scheduling, audits, and member service standards. The two branches are different animals, and you will need to switch contexts fluently between them. This is not a campus‑only role.

Hold the line on the model. Internal pressure will come — from peers, from corporate, occasionally from yourself — to make the campus branch look more…