Growth Marketer: Data-Driven, -Impact, Equity

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.

We’re looking for a Growth Marketer to own and scale our influencer and podcast channels. This person will be responsible for driving measurable customer acquisition through creator partnerships as well as collaborate with the Paid Social team on paid amplification.

You’ll own the channels end-to-end—including sourcing, negotiations, measurement & performance analysis, creative briefing, and developing strategies to improve efficiency and scale. This is a highly cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of growth marketing, partnerships, media buying, analytics, and creative.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment. You should be excited by the challenge of turning creator partnerships into predictable, scalable acquisition channels.

• Own the day-to-day execution and growth of the influencer and podcast programs, including sourcing, vetting, negotiations, briefings, contracting, measurement, and performance tracking.
• Build and maintain the operational infrastructure needed to scale the programs, including creator databases, rate benchmarks, contracting templates, and briefing processes.
• Develop channel strategies and testing roadmaps that balance CAC efficiency, acquisition volume, and scalability.
• Identify gaps and opportunities across creator mix, content formats, and distribution partners, and recommend ways to evolve the programs.

• Source, evaluate, negotiate, and launch partnerships with influencers & creator agencies, podcast hosts & podcast networks
• Negotiate CPM, CPA, and hybrid deals to drive efficient customer acquisition.
• Develop frameworks for evaluating new partners based on audience, economics, historical performance, and strategic fit.
• Build and maintain strong partner relationships and ensure campaigns launch and operate smoothly.

• Monitor and analyze campaign performance, identifying trends and drivers to determine where to scale, optimize, or cut spend.
• Develop frameworks for evaluating new partners when historical performance data is limited.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance through pricing, creative, targeting, offers, and partner selection.
• Test new sponsorship structures, creative approaches, CTAs, landing experiences, and promotional strategies.
• Partner with Data Science to improve measurement and understand incrementality and brand impact.
• Develop strategies to scale high-performing partners while maintaining target CACs.

• Partner with Creative team to develop campaign briefs and creative assets.
• Collaborate with Paid Social team on paid amplification opportunities.

• 2+ years of experience in growth marketing, performance marketing, influencer marketing, podcast advertising, partnerships, or a related field
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