Jobs at Kikoff

Lead end-to-end, data-driven user retention and cross-app integration initiatives affecting millions of users. Own major product areas involving credit reports, disputes, offboarding, and ecosystem integration. Improve service reliability, observability, and operational excellence while collaborating with product, data, design, legal, and engineering teams.

Own and grow Kikoff’s affiliate partner channel by managing relationships, sourcing and onboarding partners, negotiating performance deals, developing acquisition campaigns, and optimizing traffic, conversions, revenue, and quality KPIs. The role combines affiliate marketing strategy, account management, forecasting, data analysis, campaign optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with User Acquisition. It also represents Kikoff at partner conferences and helps develop scalable partner-support systems.

Lead data science for a core fintech product area, defining metrics, experimentation strategies, causal analyses, and models. Partner with product, engineering, design, and marketing to guide roadmap decisions. Build AI product evaluations, automated scorers, regression tests, and model monitoring practices. Contribute to company-wide data science standards, AI-enabled workflows, and measurement frameworks while mentoring teammates and communicating recommendations to senior audiences.

Design polished consumer-facing mobile and web experiences from wireframes through final assets. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to define user journeys, build scalable design-system components, and maintain visual consistency across platforms. Participate in design critiques, communicate decisions clearly, and deliver pixel-perfect interfaces with strong visual and interaction design.

Lead data science for a Grant product area, defining metrics, experiments, causal analyses, and decision-making models. Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and business leaders on strategy and roadmaps. Establish data science best practices across Kikoff and help shape AI-agent-enabled analytical workflows. Build production-quality SQL and Python pipelines, analyses, and models while guiding experimentation, monitoring, and policy decisions.

Perform revenue accounting and monthly close activities, including revenue recognition under ASC 606, account reconciliations, journal entries, variance analysis, disclosures, and audit support. Maintain revenue schedules and workpapers, review sales tax filings, investigate data discrepancies, and partner with cross-functional teams on new products. Support process improvements, automation, internal controls, and system enhancements across a high-volume fintech environment.

Own and resolve the most complex customer escalations via email, conduct QA and audits of Tier 1/2 ticketing, perform root-cause analysis, maintain SOPs and documentation, and act as a subject-matter expert to reduce escalations and improve processes.

Conduct high-volume outbound prospecting to identify and engage small-business affiliate partners. Build targeted lead lists, personalize outreach across email, phone, and LinkedIn, pitch Kikoff’s program, guide qualified prospects through compliance and onboarding, maintain CRM records, track sales metrics, and help develop sales playbooks and processes.

Conduct high-volume outbound prospecting to identify small-business affiliate partners, using email, phone, and LinkedIn. Research prospects, build targeted lead lists, pitch Kikoff’s affiliate program, manage vetting and compliance, and guide qualified businesses through onboarding. Maintain CRM records, track outreach and partner metrics, meet activity and onboarding targets, refine sales processes, and help establish the Phoenix sales development function.

Lead end-to-end performance creative strategy across paid social, YouTube, CTV, and other digital channels. Translate growth goals and audience insights into concepts, scripts, test plans, and high-performing advertising. Analyze creative performance, iterate based on results, and develop AI-assisted and traditional production workflows. Collaborate with Growth, Brand, Product Marketing, production, and post-production teams while guiding experimentation and emerging creative formats.

Manage and coach approximately six SDRs across Enterprise and Ambassador teams. Own activity, meeting, partner onboarding, and pipeline metrics; conduct coaching, call and outreach quality reviews; refine scripts, cadences, and playbooks; maintain CRM hygiene; coordinate with Business Development and Partnerships; and lead hiring, onboarding, training, compliance, and team-scaling initiatives in a fast-growing Phoenix office.

Build and improve Kikoff’s flagship credit-building product as a senior frontend engineer. Develop features that increase retention, engagement, and revenue while collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists. Explore and scope new opportunities, analyze data for business decisions, solve problems beyond your expertise, and deliver measurable customer impact using SolidJS or React.

Own Kikoff’s detection and response program for a fintech environment. Responsibilities include setting the security telemetry and detection roadmap, building detection-as-code coverage across AWS, endpoints, identity, SaaS, and CI/CD, improving alert quality, managing incident response, leading investigations, creating runbooks and on-call processes, and automating safe response actions. The role also includes audit logging, insider-risk investigations, incident postmortems, and detection of AI or agentic system abuse.

Drive user acquisition across digital and offline channels while optimizing customer acquisition costs. Define campaign KPIs, run A/B and multivariate tests, analyze performance data, develop direct-response creative strategies, and collaborate with design, copywriting, product, and analytics teams. The role offers increasing ownership of campaigns and strategic growth initiatives.

Owns multi-entity accounting, monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, general ledger accuracy, operating expenses, accruals, fixed assets, payroll, equity, AP oversight, audits, and variance analysis. Leads a team of two, partners cross-functionally, and improves accounting systems, controls, and processes to support IPO readiness and company scale.

Build and scale Kikoff’s Flutter credit-building app across growth, onboarding, identity verification, subscriptions, payments, billing, and monetization. Improve mobile architecture, performance, observability, CI/CD, testing, releases, and design systems. Partner with product, design, marketing, data science, and engineering teams to optimize acquisition, retention, and revenue through experiments and measurable outcomes.

Own Kikoff’s data security roadmap across AWS, Snowflake, RDS, and internal pipelines. Design and implement encryption, tokenization, least-privilege access, access brokering, row- and column-level controls, audit logging, secure data flows, and AI agent permissions. Partner with Legal and Compliance on privacy and regulatory requirements, threat-model new systems, and create reusable secure engineering patterns. Support data mapping, retention, deletion, and cross-border data controls in a regulated fintech environment.

Set the technical direction for machine learning across underwriting, fraud, risk, and personalization. Own the ML platform and modeling roadmap, including feature stores, pipelines, serving, monitoring, governance, and experimentation. Lead high-impact credit and cash-advance models through deployment and iteration, establish model-risk standards, partner with business and compliance leaders, and mentor engineers. This is a hands-on staff role with company-wide technical influence.

Build and maintain consumer fintech products across backend, frontend, and mobile platforms. The role uses Ruby on Rails, AWS, ReactJS, Vercel, and Flutter, with opportunities for rapid growth in an early-stage startup environment. Candidates should have strong computer science fundamentals, relevant software engineering experience or equivalent, and enthusiasm for startup products and collaborative professional relationships.

Own the technical strategy, architecture, performance, and infrastructure of company-wide web frontend systems. Lead frontend tooling, CI/CD, observability, testing, shared component libraries, and developer experience. Drive cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, responsiveness, quality, and performance across high-traffic consumer applications. Mentor engineers, establish standards, influence technical direction, and collaborate with product, design, data science, and engineering teams.