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 built the fastest-growing consumer credit-building product in history - over 1M active members and an average +86 point score lift in year one. Kikoff Enterprise takes that same engine and turns it into credit infrastructure other companies build on: white-label embedded credit-building and financial-wellness products, plus productized bureau operations (furnishing-as-a-service, AI-automated FCRA dispute management, decline recovery, decisioning, IDV/KYC). Our customers are gig-economy employers, embedded-finance providers, credit unions and CDFIs, neobanks, and lenders serving the underserved economy. This role is leading one of our newest and most exciting business areas.
This is a business-builder role for someone with deep product instincts and commercial range. You will define what Kikoff Enterprise becomes and be accountable for getting it there. Concretely, you will:
- Find or strengthen product-market fit and know it when you see it. Form a clear, evidence-based point of view on what PMF looks like for which ICPs for embedded credit infrastructure, define the leading indicators that tell us we're approaching it, and relentlessly close the gap between where we are and where fit lives.
- Define the ICP and how to find it. Cut through the buyer types we could serve to the one or two we should win first, build the thesis for why, and design the fastest path to reach and convert them.
- Decide what we build and why. Own the product strategy and roadmap across both surfaces - the Credit Progression Suite and the Credit Infrastructure stack - grounded in customer evidence, sequencing bets so each release compounds into a defensible platform rather than a pile of features.
- Set pricing and distribution. Design packaging and pricing that map to the value partners actually get, and figure out the distribution motion - direct, partner-led, channel, or self-serve API - that lets this scale beyond founder-led sales.
- Understand what customers care about and drive high NRR. Get deep on why partners buy, stay, and expand; build the product and program that makes them successful; and own retention and expansion as first-class outcomes, not afterthoughts.
- Grow the opportunity and measure progress early and often. Define the metrics that show real progress at this stage (not vanity) and instrument the business so we can tell signal from noise even when numbers are still small.
- You have taken a B2B product or business from 0-1 and into scale and can speak concretely to what PMF felt like before and after you found it.
- You think in bets and evidence. You reach past instinct to the data and customer truth that build conviction, and you're comfortable pulling and interrogating data yourself.
- You have commercial range: you can sit in a sales call, shape a pricing model, and read a cohort retention curve in the same day, and you're energized by owning outcomes rather than just shipping.
- You've worked in or sold to financial services, embedded finance, fintech infrastructure, or a regulated API business - and you're fluent (or fast to become fluent) in the realities of bureaus, furnishing, and compliance (FCRA/ECOA).
- You're an excellent communicator and writer who can build alignment across engineering, GTM, and the C-suite, and earn the trust of sophisticated enterprise buyers.
- You operate with extreme ownership in ambiguity. When something is undefined, you define it; when something is broken, you fix it; when it's time to hand off the wheel, you do.
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
- Proven experience taking a B2B product or business from 0-1 to scale
- Ability to pull, interrogate, and analyze customer and cohort data directly
- Commercial range: experience in sales calls, pricing models, retention and expansion ownership
- Experience in or selling to financial services, embedded finance, fintech infrastructure, or regulated API businesses
- Fluency with credit bureaus, furnishing, and compliance (FCRA/ECOA)
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to align engineering, GTM, and C-suite and persuade enterprise buyers
- Ability to operate with extreme ownership and define solutions in ambiguous situations
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.
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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.






