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Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. 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.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
Why Kikoff:
This 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.
About Kikoff
Kikoff is a high growth consumer fintech startup offering credit-building solutions that are affordable, accessible, and educational. Our core product, the Kikoff Credit Account, has helped over 1 million customers build better credit. Kikoff has been featured by Nerdwallet, Forbes, Buzzfeed, Business Insider, CNBC, and others; and our app has a 4.9 rating amongst thousands of reviews. But Kikoff is more than just a credit builder: we are a long-term financial partner for our customers, and we have an exciting product roadmap of solutions to help our customers reach their financial goals.
This role sits at the intersection of creative leadership, operational excellence, and business impact. You will lead and grow a performance video team to produce creative assets that drive user acquisition on paid social and other marketing channels while building structure, systems, and workflows that evolve alongside business needs. You'll continuously refine how we work to support shifting growth priorities, new channels, and emerging production models.
You bring a strong video production background and deep experience leading creative teams. You know how to create clarity across resourcing, prioritization, and execution while staying agile and performance-oriented. You are not a rigid process owner, you are a business-minded operator who uses structure strategically to unlock speed, performance, and team effectiveness.
Please include a portfolio of your work and/or by the teams you led.
What You'll Do

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing video team by setting clear expectations, building career paths, fostering a high-trust performance culture, and partnering cross-functionally on hiring and org design.
• Performance & Creative Outcomes: Ensure our video output consistently drives measurable business results, keeping performance insights, testing velocity, and winning creative at the center of how the team operates.
• Video Operations, Structure & Process: Own video resourcing, prioritization, and end-to-end production workflows by building scalable intake, tracking, and visibility systems that drive efficiency across internal production, creators/UGC, AI video, and external vendors.
• Production Excellence: Oversee high-quality video execution across all channels while guiding production strategy across in-house video production for various marketing channels, creator/UGC pipelines, and AI-generated video, balancing creative quality with rapid iteration.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as the bridge between creative vision and execution by aligning Creative, Growth, Brand, and Product Marketing and partnering with leadership to make smart tradeoffs across speed, cost, creative quality and performance.

Who You Are

• 8+ years in video production/post-production roles.
• 3+ years of leading and scaling video creative teams
• Strong hands-on background in video production, editing, and post workflows.
• Proven ability to scale creative output while improving efficiency and team clarity.
• Experience supporting performance marketing teams and working against measurable KPIs.
• Strong operational thinker - you naturally build structure, process, and clarity.
• Comfortable balancing people leadership, creative quality, and business outcomes.
• Strong communicator who can align creative, growth, and executive stakeholders.

Bonus Points

• Experience in high-growth startups or performance marketing environments.
• Experience building AI-assisted video production workflows.
• Familiarity with direct response creative and paid social production at scale.
• Experience managing hybrid production models (in-house + creators + vendors).

Kikoff: A FinTech Unicorn Powering Financial Progress with AI
At 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.
Why Kikoff:
This 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.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
20 days of paid time off per year - we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work
401(k) plan with a generous employer match to help you invest in your future
Competitive pay based on experience consisting of base + equity + benefits
Location: Hybrid, 3 days onsite in San Francisco, CA.
Visa sponsorship available: Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Kikoff 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.
Please reference the following for more information.
If you need reasonable accommodation for a job opening please connect with us at talent@kikoff.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Kikoff will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Base Range
$145,000-$184,000 USD
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Kikoff 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.
Please reference the following for more information.