Kikoff
Video People Lead
San Francisco
H1B sponsorship available$145k-$184kDetected 30 days ago
Product StrategyPerformance MarketingValuationVideo ProductionLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- This role sits at the intersection of creative leadership, operational excellence, and business impact.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing video team by setting clear expectations, building career paths, fostering a high-trust performance culture, and partnering cross-functionally on hiring and org design.
- Performance & Creative Outcomes: Ensure our video output consistently drives measurable business results, keeping performance insights, testing velocity, and winning creative at the center of how the team operates.
- Video Operations, Structure & Process: Own video resourcing, prioritization, and end-to-end production workflows by building scalable intake, tracking, and visibility systems that drive efficiency across internal production, creators/UGC, AI video, and external vendors.
- Strong operational thinker - you naturally build structure, process, and clarity.
- 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.
- Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
- We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships.
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing video team by setting clear expectations, building career paths, fostering a high-trust performance culture, and partnering cross-functionally on hiring and org design.
- Own video resourcing, prioritization, and end-to-end production workflows by building scalable intake, tracking, and visibility systems that drive efficiency across internal production, creators/UGC, AI video, and external vendors.
- Experience building AI-assisted video production workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years in video production/post-production roles.
- 3+ years of leading and scaling video creative teams
- Proven ability to scale creative output while improving efficiency and team clarity.
- Experience supporting performance marketing teams and working against measurable KPIs.
- Experience in high-growth startups or performance marketing environments.
- Familiarity with direct response creative and paid social production at scale.
Skills
- A FinTech Unicorn Powering Financial Progress with AI
Compensation
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Kikoff will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- $145,000 - $184,000 USD
- Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
- Please reference the following for more information.
Benefits
- 🏥 Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
- 📈 Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
- 🏝️ 20 days of paid time off per year - we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work
- 💰 Competitive pay based on experience consisting of base + equity + benefits
Company info
- Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security.
- Our core product, the Kikoff Credit Account, has helped over 1 million customers build better credit.
Equal opportunity
- 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 for more information.
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.
This listing is sourced directly from Kikoff's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.