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With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.\nWe're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.\nWhy Kikoff:\nThis is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a Growth Marketer to own and scale our influencer and podcast channels. This person will be responsible for driving measurable customer acquisition through creator partnerships as well as collaborate with the Paid Social team on paid amplification. \nYou’ll own the channels end-to-end-including sourcing, negotiations, measurement & performance analysis, creative briefing, and developing strategies to improve efficiency and scale. This is a highly cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of growth marketing, partnerships, media buying, analytics, and creative.\nThe ideal candidate is highly analytical and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment. You should be excited by the challenge of turning creator partnerships into predictable, scalable acquisition channels.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn Influencer & Podcast Growth\nOwn the day-to-day execution and growth of the influencer and podcast programs, including sourcing, vetting, negotiations, briefings, contracting, measurement, and performance tracking.\nBuild and maintain the operational infrastructure needed to scale the programs, including creator databases, rate benchmarks, contracting templates, and briefing processes.\nDevelop channel strategies and testing roadmaps that balance CAC efficiency, acquisition volume, and scalability.\nIdentify gaps and opportunities across creator mix, content formats, and distribution partners, and recommend ways to evolve the programs.\nManage Partnerships\nSource, evaluate, negotiate, and launch partnerships with influencers & creator agencies, podcast hosts & podcast networks\nNegotiate CPM, CPA, and hybrid deals to drive efficient customer acquisition.\nDevelop frameworks for evaluating new partners based on audience, economics, historical performance, and strategic fit.\nBuild and maintain strong partner relationships and ensure campaigns launch and operate smoothly.\nDrive Performance & Optimization\nMonitor and analyze campaign performance, identifying trends and drivers to determine where to scale, optimize, or cut spend.\nDevelop frameworks for evaluating new partners when historical performance data is limited.\nIdentify opportunities to improve performance through pricing, creative, targeting, offers, and partner selection.\nTest new sponsorship structures, creative approaches, CTAs, landing experiences, and promotional strategies.\nPartner with Data Science to improve measurement and understand incrementality and brand impact.\nDevelop strategies to scale high-performing partners while maintaining target CACs.\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nPartner with Creative team to develop campaign briefs and creative assets. \nCollaborate with Paid Social team on paid amplification opportunities.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n2+ years of experience in growth marketing, performance marketing, influencer marketing, podcast advertising, partnerships, or a related field\nExperience managing performance-oriented influencer and/or podcast marketing programs\nStrong understanding of direct-response marketing and customer acquisition economics\nProven ability to manage media budgets and make data-driven investment decisions\nStrong analytical skills and comfort working with CAC, ROAS, conversion rates, attribution, and other performance metrics\nStrong negotiation and relationship-management skills\nExcellent project management and organizational skills-you can manage many partners, campaigns, and deadlines simultaneously\nComfortable working with ambiguity and independently driving projects from strategy through execution\nStrong written and verbal communication skills\nA bias toward testing, learning, and iteration\nNice to Have\nExperience with both influencer and podcast advertising\nExperience buying media directly from creators, podcast hosts, or networks/agencies\nExperience with performance-based compensation structures such as CPA, hybrid CPA/CPM, or revenue-share deals\nFamiliarity with podcast measurement and attribution platforms such as Podscribe\nExperience with influencer attribution and tracking platforms\nExperience working in fintech, consumer apps, subscriptions, or other performance-driven businesses\nExperience scaling a channel from early testing into a meaningful acquisition program\nBase Range\n$110,000—$145,000 USD\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nKikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. 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