Senior HRBP

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 is looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to support Engineering and Data — a 50+ person team at the center of a profitable, pre-IPO consumer fintech — and to lead the AI-driven evolution of how we run the People function. This is not a traditional HRBP role. You will operate as a product manager for the employee experience, designing, building, and maintaining AI-powered workflows and agents across the full employee lifecycle.

You will also be the embedded People partner to the CTO's Chief of Staff, engineering and data leaders, and the managers who run our day-to-day delivery.

Your success will be measured through quantifiable improvements in talent outcomes, the quality and reliability of the AI workflows and agents you build, and your ability to influence culture and organizational effectiveness through data-driven insights. This role reports to the VP of People and works in close partnership with CTO and his Chief of Staff. You'll also collaborate with Recruiting, People Analytics, and People Operations on the systems that run underneath this work.

This is a senior individual contributor role — no direct reports — with significant ownership over how Engineering and Data operate as a team.

• Operate as a product manager for the employee experience. Own the build, launch, and maintenance of AI-powered workflows and agents across the lifecycle moving us from multi-week HR cycles to fast, automated ones.
• Architect the foundational talent systems for Engineering and Data: career ladders, and promotion criteria, including the technical and behavioral expectations at each level.
• Drive comp planning end-to-end (merit, equity refresh, promotion increases, out-of-cycle adjustments) and coach managers through the full performance lifecycle, including the harder calibration and feedback conversations.
• Build automated dashboards and predictive analytics that let leadership make evidence-based decisions on engagement, attendance, learning ROI, retention risk, and high-potential identification.
• Own employee relations for the Eng and Data populations — investigations, performance management, accommodations, and sensitive transitions — coordinating with Legal and the VP of People.
• Partner with Recruiting on workforce planning, role architecture, leveling decisions, and offer construction for senior technical roles, and support immigration cases (H-1B, green card, wage-weighted lottery) with our external counsel.
• Use data to shape policies on remote work, time off, and professional development, and build manager development and skill-gap-driven programs for Eng and Data leaders.
• Support IPO readiness work streams that touch the Eng and Data populations, including workforce compliance, equity education, and SEC-required disclosures.

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 3 years in an HRBP role at a venture-backed tech company, with deep experience partnering with technical functions — ideally Engineering, Data, or Product. An advanced degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, HR, Business Analytics, or a related field is a plus.
• A builder with a product mindset — comfortable writing PRDs, managing a backlog, and iterating on tools and agents. You ship, learn, and improve rather than…