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# Rotational Associate Manager 2027 at Kikoff

- **Company:** Kikoff
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$125k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kikoff/jobs/4449006009

## Job description

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](https://about.kikoff.com/ramp)

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: 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 (1 year 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.
- Product Operations – Creating the systems and processes that help teams move faster, stay aligned, and ship high-impact work efficiently.

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!

Base Range $100,000—$125,000 USD

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.

Please reference the following for [more information](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights_10_20.pdf).

## About Kikoff

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kikoff is a personal financial technology company that builds credit, manages debt, and unlocks financial opportunity for underserved consumers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Cynthia Chen (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Consumer Fintech, Credit Building, Personal Finance
- **Target customers**: B2C – individuals seeking to build or improve credit scores, manage debt, and access affordable financial services.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Empowering everyone to achieve financial security, no matter where they’re starting from.

## Products & Services
- **Credit Building ($5/month)**: A credit-builder loan that reports to major credit bureaus with no interest and no hidden fees.
- **Rent & Bill Reporting**: Reports on-time rent and utility payments to credit bureaus to help users build credit from everyday bills.
- **Secured Credit Card**: A card designed to help users establish or rebuild credit responsibly.
- **AI-Powered Debt Negotiation**: Complimentary service that uses AI to negotiate debt reductions for users (over $8M in debt relief since 2024).
- **Identity Theft Protection**: Monitoring and alerts for identity fraud.
- **Fynn (AI Credit Coach)**: Launched in 2026, an AI-powered coach providing personalised financial guidance.
- **Grant & Catch**: Additional products in the ecosystem (likely focused on grants and savings/catch-up features).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (unicorn status inferred from growth and investor profile).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue surpassed **$300M** in 2025, more than doubling year over year while maintaining profitability since 2023.
- **Total Raised**: $42.5M (Series C)
- **Notable Investors**: Core Innovation Capital, Coatue, Lightspeed, Portage, Notable Capital (and 12+ others)
- **Growth Signals**: Profitable since 2023; reached $300M+ revenue in <7 years; 1M+ customers; 80M+ credit points boosted; 30K+ mortgages and 433K+ auto loans opened after using Kikoff; appointed CFO John Kaelle and CLO Robert Mahnke in 2026, signalling public-market readiness.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Radically affordable pricing** ($5/month for credit building vs. industry $300+) removes barriers for low-income users.
- **AI-first approach** for debt negotiation and credit coaching creates scalable, personalised solutions.
- **Proprietary technology** builds the entire stack in-house, lowering costs and enabling faster iteration.
- **Strong unit economics** and profitability demonstrate operational discipline uncommon at this growth stage.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued product expansion** – adding new financial tools (Grant, Catch, Fynn) to create a one-tap financial security platform.
- **Deepening leadership bench** with IPO-experienced executives to prepare for future public listing.
- **Investing in AI and automation** to replace legacy systems and deliver faster, more accessible outcomes.
- **Scaling customer impact** – targeting underserved millions through low-cost, high-access offerings.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture** with real impact: 1M+ customers helped, $8M in debt relief, 80M+ points boosted.
- **Financial stability** – profitable since 2023 with rapid revenue growth, reducing risk of layoffs.
- **Strong values in action**: "Company First, Ego Last", "Act Like an Owner", "Customer Obsessed", "Think in Years, Act Today", "Be Candid & Kind".
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Health benefits, flexible PTO, 401k matching, commuter benefits, fitness benefit, office lunches & dinners.
- **Hybrid/Office setting** in San Francisco (132 Hawthorne Street) – likely a collaborative in-office culture with team meals.
- **Growth trajectory** – team is "growing rapidly" (as stated on careers page), offering ample career advancement opportunities.
- **Engineering and AI focus** – investing heavily in technology, making it an exciting environment for engineers and product builders.

## Sources
1. [about.kikoff.com/careers](https://about.kikoff.com/careers)
2. [about.kikoff.com/company](https://about.kikoff.com/company)
3. [cbinsights.com/company/kikoff](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/kikoff)
4. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260421425245/en/)

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