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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
Kikoff’s Rotational Associate Manager Program Recent Grad 2027
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, and Business Development. 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 Marketing who began their career through a similar rotational program at Google—this program is built on mentorship, practical experience, and accelerated professional growth.
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 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 Rotation (~1 month): Associates will experience hands-on training across multiple teams, including Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, and Business Development. 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 6 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 increased user retention and monetization through data-driven marketing strategies and experimentation.
- Business Development: Build partnerships, negotiate deals, and identify new growth opportunities for Kikoff.
- Lifecycle Marketing: Analyze customer data, map journey touchpoints, and execute personalized messaging campaigns to drive growth for Kikoff.
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:
- Current undergraduate and master's students or early career professionals with high potential, such as those from consulting or investment banking
- Highly motivated, curious, and adaptable individuals
- Excellent communication, analytical, and first principles problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated leadership potential and eagerness to learn
- Strategic thinker able to break down and organize problems, assess opportunity areas, and develop big ideas and priorities to move the business forward.
- Have strong bias to action and hunger to move fast and flexibly
- 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!
A note on applying: We know great candidates sometimes hold back if they don’t meet every qualification listed. If you’re excited about this role and believe you can do the work, we encourage you to apply. We’re looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.
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
- Current undergraduate or master's student, or early-career professional
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong analytical and first-principles problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated leadership potential
- Strategic thinking and ability to organize problems, assess opportunities, and establish priorities
- Adaptability, curiosity, motivation, and eagerness to learn
- Strong bias to action and ability to work quickly and flexibly
- Consulting or investment banking experience
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 — Health coverage is presented as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision included and the full premium cost covered for employees in recent postings. Employer materials and listings consistently cite health insurance as a core benefit.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as 20 days of accrued PTO plus company‑paid holidays. This provides a clear baseline of paid leave beyond standard holidays.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Everyday perks include commuter benefits, catered office meals, and a fitness benefit policy. These additions contribute to daily convenience and lifestyle support.
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What We Do
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 Work With Us
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.
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