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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.
Short Term Employee
Duration: 3-6 months
About This Role
We’re looking for an Ad Copywriter to support the creation and scaling of performance marketing creative at Kikoff. This is a highly execution-focused role centered on producing high-quality ad copy and scripts at speed across paid social, TV and other channels.
You’ll work closely with Creative, Growth, and Production teams to turn briefs, insights, and winning patterns into new ad concepts quickly and consistently. You enjoy thinking about ad strategy at the execution level — understanding why certain hooks, angles, and formats perform, and applying those learnings across new creative. Success in this role means shipping a high volume of strong ad concepts, iterating fast, and helping the team scale what performs well.
What You’ll DoLead the ideation, scripting, and creative development of high-performing creatives across digital and paid channels.
Monitor creative performance, analyze results, and iterate quickly based on learnings to surface insights and optimize creative direction.
Write high-performing ad copy and scripts across paid social, video, display, and emerging formats
Translate creative briefs, performance data, audience insights, and winning hooks into new ad variants effectively and efficiently.
Support ongoing creative testing by producing multiple versions of concepts, hooks, and messaging angles.
Partner with designers, video editors, and content creators to bring ads from script to final asset.
Use AI tools to accelerate copy generation, concept expansion, and variant creation.
Maintain strong organization across multiple concurrent campaigns and deliverables.
Contribute to brainstorms and concept development while primarily focusing on execution and output.
Who You Are
4+ years of experience in advertising, performance marketing, social content, or copywriting roles.
Strong creative writing skills and a passion for storytelling, the creative process, and solving puzzles.
Proven track record of concepting, writing, and producing ads that convert.
Familiar in using AI tools for creative production (e.g., VEO 3, Sora 2, Higgsfield, Midjourney, etc.).
Understanding of social and performance marketing channels, from TikTok and YouTube to Meta and CTV.
Creative and analytical in equal measure—you can identify what works and why, then scale it.
Obsessed with culture, trends, and storytelling that connects with real people.
Bonus Points
Experience with direct response creative, user acquisition campaigns, or B2C brands.
Experience writing for fintech, financial services, or highly-regulated industries.
Experience briefing content creators.
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.
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in advertising, performance marketing, social content, or copywriting roles.
- Strong creative writing skills and a passion for storytelling and the creative process.
- Proven track record of concepting, writing, and producing ads that convert.
- Familiarity with AI creative tools (e.g., VEO 3, Sora 2, Higgsfield, Midjourney).
- Understanding of social and performance marketing channels (TikTok, YouTube, Meta, CTV).
- Ability to write high-performing ad copy and scripts across paid social, video, display, and emerging formats.
- Comfort analyzing creative performance data and iterating quickly to optimize creative direction.
- Strong organization managing multiple concurrent campaigns and deliverables.
- Experience with direct response creative, user acquisition campaigns, or B2C brands.
- Experience writing for fintech or highly regulated industries.
- Experience briefing content creators.
Kikoff Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kikoff and has not been reviewed or approved by Kikoff.
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Healthcare Strength — Employer-paid employee medical, dental, and vision premiums are highlighted across postings and benefits pages. This materially lowers out-of-pocket costs and signals strong core coverage.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily meals, snacks, fitness benefits, and substantial commuter support are prominently offered. These perks can meaningfully enhance day-to-day experience, especially for in-office or hybrid roles.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching is included in the package. The presence of matching adds long-term financial value even as specific formulas are not publicly detailed.
Kikoff Insights
What We Do
Kikoff is a personal finance platform that offers the simplest credit-building solution out there: $0 fees, 0% interest, and no credit pull. Your credit score is the foundation of your financial health – yet most people don’t have the credit score they deserve. That’s why Kikoff built the most accessible and affordable credit-building solution – it’s also the fastest growing and the top-rated credit building mobile app. Kikoff works whether you’re new to credit or looking for an extra boost. Building credit is just the start; Kikoff is building a personal finance platform designed to help consumers achieve financial wellness. Driven by the co-founders’ and team’s personal experiences, Kikoff’s mission is to provide refreshingly fair, effective, and simple pathways to meet your financial goals. Kikoff is a Series B company and has raised over $42 million in total funding. Investors include Portage Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV, Coatue, Core Innovation Capital, and basketball star Stephen Curry. Kikoff was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Why Work With Us
We are building an organization that maximizes growth and learning; we are invested in helping you grow and achieve what you want in your career. Our principles include a bias towards action, work in public, first principles thinking, intellectual honesty and extreme ownership.
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