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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 The Role
As the Executive Assistant you will play a critical role in keeping Kikoff's leadership team operating effectively. You will serve as a trusted partner to the CEO and broader Executive Team, managing the logistics, communications, and coordination that allow senior leaders to focus on the company's most important priorities. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, exercise strong judgment and discretion, and thrive in a fast-moving, high-growth, pre-IPO environment where priorities shift quickly and no two days look the same.
The Executive Assistant will support the CEO as the primary principal, with meaningful support responsibilities across the broader Executive Team. The role will be located in our San Francisco office, with an expectation to be in office all five days.
What You Will Do:
- Manage complex, ever-changing calendars for the CEO and Executive Team, including prioritization of meetings, proactive conflict resolution, and protection of focused work time
- Ensure day-to-day calendars are coordinated across CEO and Executive team and strive to keep the CEO and Executive team on schedule daily
- Serve as a first point of contact for inbound communications to the CEO, triaging emails and requests with sound judgment and appropriate urgency
- Own logistical planning and organize materials for board meetings, investor updates, executive offsites, company all-hands, and leadership events from end to end
- Serve as a welcoming face for executive guests and help maintain a professional, well-run office environment for the leadership team.
- Partner with the People and Finance teams on expense reporting, vendor coordination, and administrative processes
- Handle sensitive and confidential information with the highest degree of discretion and professionalism
- Coordinate domestic and occasional international travel arrangements, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and itineraries
- Anticipate needs before they arise and proactively fill gaps without being asked
About You:
- 5+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant supporting C-suite leaders, ideally at a high-growth technology company
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple senior stakeholders simultaneously without losing sight of details
- Has supported a CEO or founder through a period of meaningful company growth or organizational change
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — comfortable drafting correspondence on behalf of senior leaders
- Strong judgment about when to act independently and when to escalate
- Highly proficient with modern productivity tools (Google Workspace, Slack, and calendar management tools at minimum), with an interest in utilizing AI
- Able to translate ambiguous requests into clear, well-organized outcomes
- Strong and effective communications skill
- Discretion and integrity are non-negotiable
This role will be 5 days onsite in SOMA.
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
- 5+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant supporting C-suite leaders
- Experience supporting a CEO or founder through meaningful company growth or organizational change
- Proven ability to manage multiple senior stakeholders simultaneously without losing sight of details
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable drafting correspondence on behalf of senior leaders
- Strong judgment about when to act independently and when to escalate
- Handle sensitive and confidential information with the highest degree of discretion and professionalism
- Highly proficient with modern productivity tools (Google Workspace, Slack, calendar management tools)
- Coordinate domestic and occasional international travel arrangements (flights, accommodations, ground transportation, itineraries)
- Experience with expense reporting, vendor coordination, and administrative processes (partnering with People and Finance)
- Able to translate ambiguous requests into clear, well-organized outcomes and anticipate needs proactively
- Willingness and ability to be onsite five days per week in SOMA, San Francisco
- Interest in utilizing AI to improve productivity and workflows
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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