Head of Growth Marketing

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$295K/yr – $380K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the marketing budget and CAC/ROAS across acquisition, while guiding a high-performing growth engine that blends paid, organic, and B2B2C channels.

  • Lead and grow the performance marketing and creative teams to hit CAC/ROAS targets.
  • Stand up new distribution channels beyond paid media, including organic growth and B2B2C.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and data to land campaigns and drive results.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Directly responsible for our marketing budget and growing the number of users who join our program while keeping constant or improving our CAC/ROAS
  • Lead, mentor and grow the performance marketing and creative teams
  • Stand up new distribution channels and strategies beyond paid media including organic growth and b2b2c
  • Work cross-functionally to bring campaigns and results to life: working with designers, copywriters, product team, data analysts, and more.
  • Lead the team through various stages of marketing maturity for a mix of apps through launching and cracking new products and markets as well as growing acquisition for our mature products and programs

Requirements

  • 15+ years of a proven track record of driving towards new user acquisition growth goals under set CAC/ROAS or volume targets, timelines and budgets at scale.
  • 5+ years as a proven people leader able to guide, influence and motivate teams and organizations with a track record of managing performance and driving towards measurable goals and outcomes.
  • Deep knowledge of paid media, measurement, and performance marketing channels such as Facebook, TikTok, Google ads, mobile DSPs, TV, direct mail and more.
  • Mastery of hypothesis driven A/B, MVT and incrementality testing with the ability to lead a team through analyzing test result data to tease out learnings and insights to inform future testing.
  • Strategic thinker and leader, able to breakdown and organize problems, assess opportunity areas, and develop big ideas and priorities, and mobilize teams and resources to move the business forward.

Preferred

  • Fintech or D2C experience; SQL proficiency bonus.
  • SQL proficiency to pull your own data and cross-validate results.

Benefits

  • Benefits and equity in a fast-moving and fast-growing environment that will help you grow your abilities and career.
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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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