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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.
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.
Kikoff is looking for a Content Editor (Contractor) to support our growing blog operations and ensure our content is accurate, authoritative, and genuinely useful to readers. This is a contract role with the opportunity to make a real impact on how millions of consumers discover and trust Kikoff through search.
Responsibilities include:- Content Review: Review blog posts for accuracy, tone, clarity, and quality before publication - editing for voice and ensuring posts meet our editorial standards.
- Expert Perspective: Add personal anecdotes, real-world examples, and subject matter insight to content where relevant, and serve as the listed reviewer across the Kikoff blog.
- Content Briefing: Help shape content direction and communicate feedback and priorities to our content partners.
- Partner Communication: Serve as the day-to-day point of contact with our content partners - relaying edits, flagging issues, and keeping production running smoothly.
- CMS Publishing: Publish finalized posts directly in the Webflow CMS editor, ensuring formatting and structure are consistent across the blog.
- Experience writing or editing personal finance content for major financial institutions, fintech companies, or personal finance publishers (NerdWallet, Experian, Bankrate, or similar) - with strong working knowledge of credit, lending, or consumer finance topics.
- Strong editorial instincts - you can quickly identify what’s missing from a post and improve it without a lengthy rewrite.
- Familiarity with YMYL content standards and the expectations around financial accuracy, tone, and compliance-awareness.
- Comfortable with high-volume, fast-turnaround editorial work while maintaining consistent quality.
- Clear, responsive communicator - able to manage content partner relationships and relay feedback efficiently.
- Hands-on with a CMS - Webflow experience preferred, but any modern CMS is fine.
Contract Rate: $40-$60 per hour
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
- Experience writing or editing personal finance content for major financial institutions, fintech companies, or personal finance publishers
- Strong working knowledge of credit, lending, or consumer finance topics
- Strong editorial instincts and ability to improve content quickly without lengthy rewrites
- Familiarity with YMYL content standards and financial accuracy/compliance expectations
- Ability to handle high-volume, fast-turnaround editorial work while maintaining quality
- Clear, responsive communicator able to manage content partner relationships and relay feedback efficiently
- Hands-on CMS publishing experience (Webflow experience preferred; any modern CMS acceptable)
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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