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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.\nAn ideal member of the product team likes to roll their sleeves up and dive in. You might conduct user interviews, dig in the database, wireframe in Miro, and dogfood the latest mobile app release, all before lunch. Because you're passionate about solving deeply personal financial problems for consumers, you will do whatever it takes to find the right solutions. You'll also work collaboratively within your dedicated product team that includes design and engineering, as well as cross-functionally with marketing, legal, operations, leadership and whoever else you need to get it done. You won't stop until the data tells you it's right.\nThis is a full-time position in our San Francisco HQ with benefits and equity in a fast-moving and fast-growing environment that will help you grow your abilities and career as you help build a better ecosystem of credit for our customers.\nWhat you can expect in this role:\nLook deeply at the data and talk to users to find what engages them and create engagement loops using content and experiences that leverage product, comms and alert touch points.\n\nConstantly develop and experiment on experiences and types of content that will keep users hooked.\n\nDrive strategic insights that shape roadmaps for engineering, design and marketing using data and user stories to build conviction.\n\nExplore our data and users to create interesting segments and relevant insights and content to drive a virtuous loop of engagement.\n\nTake direction from leadership regarding the key objectives your team needs to drive, but outline a roadmap with your product team to achieve successful outcomes, together.\n\nDrive the discovery process to form a deep understanding of our users and to uncover the products and features that will best empower those consumers.\n\nReach beyond instinct alone to capture and analyze the right data to allow you to make the most informed decisions as you continue to evolve your approach.\n\nChampion your products within your team, across the company, and with consumers.\n\nWhat will help make you successful:\nExcellent writing and communication skills to communicate both with users and internally to drive strategy, learning and iteration.\n\nReadiness to roll up your sleeves in all parts of the content journey from copy to setting up comms and product touch points to measuring and interpreting results.\n\nExtremely data driven and constantly looking for the “why” behind the data to understand what drives user behaviors and explains metric patterns. Pulling the data yourself is a strong plus.\n\nYou have empathy for consumers and a passion for solving consumer problems in new and innovative ways.\n\nYou feel comfortable in the driver's seat and have a natural way of knowing how to get to the destination, but also know when it's time for others to drive.\n\nYou've worked on successful digital consumer products for at least 2 years, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment.\n\nYou can wear as many hats as necessary including marketer, researcher, interface designer, analyst, and friend.\n\nAn interest in and/or history working on modern consumer financial tools and products, with your own perspective on how best to innovate in this space\n\nIdeal Candidates:\nCurrent undergraduate and master students or early career professionals with high potential such as from consulting or investment banking.\n\nA passion for solving problems derived from data-driven thinking and user needs.\n\nA futurist who can collaboratively lead a team to build towards a vision.\n\nHighly motivated, curious, and adaptable individuals.\n\nExcellent communication, analytical, and first principles problem-solving skills\n\nDemonstrated leadership potential and eagerness to learn.\n\nStrategic thinker able to breakdown and organize problems, assess opportunity areas, and develop big ideas and priorities to move the business forward.\n\nHave strong bias to action and hunger to move fast and flexibly.\n\nTechnical background a big plus such as being able to pull data with SQL and read code.\n\nKikoff: A FinTech Unicorn Powering Financial Progress with AI\nAt Kikoff, our mission is to provide radically affordable financial tools to help consumers achieve financial security. We're a profitable, high growth FinTech unicorn serving millions of people, many of whom are building credit or navigating life paycheck to paycheck. With innovative technology and AI, we simplify credit building, reduce debt, and expand access to financial opportunities to those who need them the most. Founded in 2019, Kikoff is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by top-tier VC investors and NBA star Stephen Curry.\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.\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!\nMeaningful equity in the form of RSU's\n20 days of paid time off per year - we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work\n401(k) plan with a meaningful employer match to help you invest in your future\nCompetitive pay based on experience consisting of base + equity + benefits\nLocation: Hybrid, 3 days onsite in San Francisco, CA.\nVisa sponsorship available: Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nKikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.\nPlease reference the following for more information.\nBase Range\n$160,000—$200,000 USD\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nKikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. 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