Growth Marketing Manager

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$133K/yr – $157K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Kikoff is seeking a Growth Marketing Manager to drive user acquisition while maintaining CAC/ROAS, owning multi-channel campaigns, and collaborating with data/engineering to ensure proper attribution. The role emphasizes hands-on optimization, AB testing, cross-functional collaboration, and identifying new growth opportunities. Requirements include 3+ years of growth-oriented experience, budget management, and deep paid-channel expertise, with benefits and equity offered.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Grow the number of users who join our program while keeping constant or improving our CAC/ROAS
  • Own campaigns hand-on-keyboard across multiple online channels, strategize and develop creative with our in-house creative agency, hypothesize and prioritize tests through the funnel and autonomously drive growth for the business
  • Work closely with data/engineering to ensure proper attribution (AppsFlyer/Firebase/GA4)
  • Drive, optimize, and measure KPIs for each campaign.
  • Continually design and execute AB tests to make the most effective campaigns.
  • Work cross-functionally to bring campaigns to life: working with designers, copywriters, product team, data analysts, and more.
  • Proactively identifies, evaluates, and executes new growth opportunities to accelerate adoption of early-stage products.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of a proven track record of driving towards growth goals under set CAC/ROAS or volume targets, timelines and budgets or a strong track record in an analytical academic discipline or structured and data-driven job.
  • Experience managing meaningful monthly budgets (at least $200K+/month)
  • Deep hands-on experience on digital paid channels such as Facebook, TikTok, SEM, Google UAC, or others.
  • Strong understanding of:
  • Attribution (MMPs like AppsFlyer)
  • iOS vs Android differences
  • Creative testing frameworks
  • Scaling vs efficiency trade-offs
  • Ability to move fast and flexibly, juggling multiple projects with the trustworthiness to execute on schedule at high-velocity and attention-to-detail.
  • Understanding of hypothesis driven A/B, MVT and incrementality testing with the ability to analyze test result data to tease out learnings and insights to inform future testing.
  • Experience in a fintech business, or a D2C industry is a bonus.

Benefits

  • This is a full-time position with benefits and equity in a fast-moving and fast-growing environment that will help you grow your abilities and career as you help build a better ecosystem of credit for our customers.
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Kikoff

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Kikoff was founded in 2019 with a not-so-simple goal: make it easier for people to build credit. And it’s working. With 2 million customers, we’re helping people achieve their credit goals, so they can build the life they deserve. And we’re just getting started. We’re profitable, growing fast, and we’ve achieved Unicorn status. Our team is made up of data scientists, engineers, AI developers, product designers, & financial gurus. Credit is key to big milestones — from opening a credit card to getting better rates on loans. But there’s a catch: it’s easier to build credit, when you already have it.Co-founders Cynthia Chen and Christophe Chong understood this first hand, so they built a solution. Kikoff’s main product is our Credit Account, a reported tradeline exclusively focused on building credit. But we didn’t stop there. We’ve added accessible features like Rent & Bill Reporting and our AI-powered Debt Negotiation tool to take the time and headaches out of leveling up your financial health. AI is a game changer—and we’re using it to make our products future-proof. Check out our career site to see how you can help credit builders score.

Founded in 2019
San Francisco, California, USA
191 employees (42 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$94.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24%
Direct
66.8%
Referral
5.7%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~191

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
32 (17% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
1.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$42.5M
Last Raise
$30M
Series B, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Series B • $30M
  • Jul 2020
    Series A • $10M
  • Nov 2019
    Seed • $2.5M

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