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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’s Rotational Associate Manager Program
Program Overview:
The Rotational Associate Manager Program at Kikoff is designed to accelerate the development of high-potential individuals by providing comprehensive exposure across critical business functions, including Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, Business Development and Product Operations. Associates will participate in multiple rotations, gaining hands-on experience, mentorship from senior leaders, and specialized training designed to fast-track their careers.
Inspired by successful leadership journeys—including our current Head of Product and our current Head of Operations who both began their career through a similar rotational program at Google—this program is built on mentorship, practical experience, and accelerated professional growth.
Please see more details on our ramp program here.
About Kikoff: Kikoff is a fintech unicorn offering credit-building solutions that are radically affordable, accessible, and effective. Our core product, the Kikoff Credit Account, is helping over a million customers build better credit. Kikoff has been featured by CNN, Nerdwallet, Forbes, Buzzfeed, Business Insider, CNBC, Bloomberg, and others; and our app has a 4.9 rating amongst hundreds of thousands of reviews. But Kikoff is more than just a credit builder: we are a long-term financial partner for our customers, and we have an exciting product roadmap of solutions to help our customers reach their financial goals.
Program Structure:
Initial Training (2-4 weeks): Associates will experience hands-on training across multiple teams, including Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, Business Development and Product Operations. This period focuses on foundational training, business acumen, and industry-specific knowledge.
Focused Rotations: Following the training period, associates will be matched to specific teams based on their skills, interests, and business needs. Associates will then complete two rotations (approximately 12 months each), allowing deeper exposure, responsibility, and impactful contributions within each area.
Potential Rotational Areas:
Product Marketing: Learn how we position, message, and launch products to customers, gain insights into our users and shape the product roadmap.
Growth Marketing: Drive user acquisition or increase user retention and monetization through data-driven marketing strategies and experimentation.
Business Development: Build partnerships, negotiate deals, and identify new growth opportunities for Kikoff.
Product Operations: Learn how to build and scale critical operational processes. Work closely with product teams as you identify, diagnose, and find solutions for product bugs.
What You’ll Gain:
Comprehensive training across essential business disciplines
Mentorship from senior leaders and industry experts
Hands-on experience managing impactful projects
Clarity in career direction with pathways to future leadership roles
A supportive, dynamic work environment in an innovative fintech company
Ideal Candidates:
Early career professionals with 1+ years of experience from consulting or investment banking backgrounds
Highly motivated, curious, and adaptable individuals
Demonstrated leadership potential and eagerness to learn
Strategic thinker able to break down and organize problems, assess opportunity areas, and develop and communicate long-term strategy and ideas to move the business forward.
Strong project management skills and the ability to align internal and external stakeholders effectively.
If you're eager to accelerate your career, learn across diverse business functions, and become part of a dynamic team shaping financial futures, we invite you to apply!
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
- 1+ years of experience in consulting or investment banking
- Strong project management skills
- Leadership potential
- Ability to think strategically and communicate effectively
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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