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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.
We're looking for a Junior Graphic Designer who's eager to grow their visual design skills within a performance marketing environment and help bring the Kikoff brand to life across every marketing touchpoint—paid social, email, paid, and web. This role is ideal for a designer who is hungry to learn, has a strong design foundation, and is excited to understand why great creative works—not just how to execute it.
You'll work closely with our Senior Designer, copywriters, marketers, and PMMs in a high-velocity creative environment—shipping, testing, and optimizing on-brand work that drives real results.
This is a full-time hybrid position at our San Francisco HQ. You'll be joining a fast-moving team where your work will have a visible impact and where you'll have real room to grow. Currently, the Creative team works in the SF office 3 times a week.
Please include a portfolio of your work.
What You’ll Do- Support the visual execution and evolution of the Kikoff brand across channels.
- Participate in creative ideation and concept development, contributing your creative perspective to help drive business objectives.
- Design creative assets across a wide range of channels—Paid Social, Emails, Website, and more
- Work within Kikoff's brand guidelines while exploring ways to push and refine our design language across touchpoints.
- Create static and motion assets for campaigns, ads, and content (short-form animations, product demos, UI flows, etc.).
- Explore and experiment with AI tools (Midjourney, Runway, Figma plugins, etc.) to accelerate and enhance your design workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to brainstorm, test, and iterate on creative concepts quickly and efficiently.
- Uphold brand and compliance standards across all design output.
- 0–2 years of design experience (agency, in-house, internship, or strong freelance work all count)
- A portfolio that demonstrates a solid design eye across at least a few channels (marketing, social, brand, or product).
- Foundational knowledge of visual hierarchy, typography, color, and layout for digital storytelling, especially in social media placements.
- Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; any exposure to motion tools like After Effects is a plus.
- Curious about AI-powered design tools and open to experimenting with them to enhance your work.
- Organized, communicative, and able to manage feedback and revisions across multiple projects.
- Collaborative and detail-oriented, with a genuine desire to learn and level up.
- Experience designing within fintech, SaaS, or other highly regulated industries.
- Familiarity with UX/UI design principles or web animation frameworks.
- Familiarity with social best practices
- Passion for data-informed design and rapid creative testing.
Location: Hybrid (3 days in our San Francisco office)
Short Term Employment: 40 hours per week
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of design experience
- Strong portfolio showcasing both static and motion work
- Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects
- Experience with AI-powered design tools
- Strong understanding of visual hierarchy, typography, color, and layout
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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