Demo

Lifecycle Marketing Senior Associate

Kikoff
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/23/2026
Kikoff is a high growth consumer fintech startup offering credit-building solutions that are affordable, accessible, and educational. Our core product, the Kikoff Credit Account, has helped over 1 million customers build better credit. Kikoff has been featured by Nerdwallet, Forbes, Buzzfeed, Business Insider, CNBC, and others; and our app has a 4.9 rating amongst 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.

We’re looking for a Lifecycle Marketing Associate to accelerate our lifecycle marketing efforts by hands-on scaling and optimization of our user lifecycle, working with our in-house creative team to systematically improve our performance and identify and test a myriad of new ideas that will help drive greater user retention and monetization. We’re looking for data-driven problem solvers with a growth mindset, willing to stretch their comfort levels, evolve best practices within growth marketing, and move quickly with attention to detail to do big things. We're looking for thought leaders to guide lifecycle strategy and ideas who can execute quickly and methodically to shape our approach to testing and growth. We have an ambitious mission to educate folks about the importance of their credit scores encourage them to unlock their financial access.

This is a full-time position in our San Francisco HQ 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.

What You’ll Do

  • Be one of the early members of lifecycle marketing team - we’re a small but growing team with massive scope and impact
  • Build out brand new lifecycle programs for untouched segments and use cases for our user base and growing number of new products and features; helping to define the strategic focus of the team
  • Increase retention of our products and drive higher customer lifetime value
  • Rigorously test and improve our lifecycle campaigns with rapid split testing
  • Improve the segmentation, cadence, timing and touch point mix of our comms
  • Work cross-functionally to bring campaigns to life: working with designers, copywriters, product team, data analysts, and more.

Who You Are

  • 1-3 years of a proven track record of driving towards growth goals under set targets and timelines in a lifecycle or CRM role.
  • A fast moving, detail oriented and data-driven executor with an ownership mindset.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Iterable, Braze, Customer.io or similar CRM tools.
  • Robust experience working with customer data and user event data to marry together with well designed and targeted campaigns.
  • Ability to define key marketing KPIs and break them down into their underlying drivers to understand and influence performance from first principles.
  • Ability to move fast and flexibly, juggling multiple projects with the trustworthiness to execute on schedule at high-velocity and attention-to-detail.
  • Strategic thinker able to breakdown and organize problems, assess opportunity areas, and develop big ideas and priorities to move the business forward.
  • Understanding of hypothesis driven A/B, MVT and holdout testing with the ability to analyze test result data to tease out learnings and insights to inform future testing.
  • Understanding of what makes effective and strong direct response creative with a framework to keep adjusting and learning based on experimentation.
  • Experience in a fintech business, or a D2C industry is a bonus.
  • SQL proficient to be able to pull your own data and cross-validate results.

Kikoff: A FinTech Unicorn Powering Financial Progress with AI

At Kikoff, our mission is to provide radically affordable financial tools to help consumers achieve financial security. We're a profitable, high growth FinTech unicorn serving millions of people, many of whom are building credit or navigating life paycheck to paycheck. With innovative technology and AI, we simplify credit building, reduce debt, and expand access to financial opportunities to those who need them the most. Founded in 2019, Kikoff is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by top-tier VC investors and NBA star Stephen Curry.

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.

💰 Competitive pay based on experience

🏥 Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!

📈 Stock Options

🏝 Generous unlimited vacation policy to help you recharge

Regular team building events to help you get to know the Kikoff team and soo much more! Our last virtual cooking event had everyone's mouth on fire, but cooled down by home-mixed cocktails.

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 Information For More Information

https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf

https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf

If you need reasonable accommodation for a job opening please connect with us at talent@kikoff.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process.

Salary.com Estimation for Lifecycle Marketing Senior Associate in San Francisco, CA
$55,515 to $73,057
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Lifecycle Marketing Senior Associate?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Lifecycle Marketing Senior Associate career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$44,927 - $59,438
Income Estimation: 
$50,822 - $66,758
Income Estimation: 
$50,822 - $66,758
Income Estimation: 
$56,731 - $74,783
Income Estimation: 
$70,759 - $87,772
Income Estimation: 
$90,951 - $114,963
Income Estimation: 
$113,170 - $152,774
Income Estimation: 
$90,951 - $114,963
Income Estimation: 
$114,324 - $149,093
Income Estimation: 
$59,614 - $73,808
Income Estimation: 
$70,759 - $87,772
Income Estimation: 
$113,170 - $152,774
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Kikoff

  • Kikoff San Francisco, CA
  • What You’ll Do Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to deeply understand hiring needs across engineering, product, design, marketing, and operations... more
  • 13 Days Ago

  • Kikoff San Francisco, CA
  • Kikoff is a high growth consumer fintech startup offering credit-building solutions that are affordable, accessible, and educational. Our core product, the... more
  • 13 Days Ago

  • Kikoff San Francisco, CA
  • About The Role You'll be one of our first platform engineers building the foundation for our fintech engineering organization as we scale from startup to e... more
  • 14 Days Ago

  • Kikoff San Francisco, CA
  • About The Role We’re looking for a Manager, Business Development to help us scale and deepen our most important partnerships. This role builds on the found... more
  • 15 Days Ago


Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Lifecycle Marketing Senior Associate jobs in the San Francisco, CA area that may be a better fit.

  • Doctronic San Francisco, CA
  • Location: Remote (US-based preferred) Reports to: Head of Marketing / CMO Team: Growth Marketing Company: Doctronic.ai — The #1 AI Doctor About Doctronic D... more
  • 19 Days Ago

  • Samsara San Francisco, CA
  • Who we are Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical ope... more
  • 11 Days Ago

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!