Kikoff
Lifecycle Marketing Operations Manager
Kikoff, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
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. We are a long-term financial partner for our customers with an exciting product roadmap of solutions to help customers reach their financial goals. We’re looking for a Lifecycle Marketing Operations Manager to serve as the technical link between marketing strategy and execution. This role is responsible for building, automating, and optimizing end-to-end customer lifecycle campaigns across channels including email, push notifications, SMS, and in‑app messaging. We seek data-driven problem solvers with a growth mindset who can evolve best practices, move quickly with attention to detail, and help us achieve big results. This is a full-time position in our San Francisco HQ with benefits and equity in a fast-moving environment that will help you grow your abilities and career as you help build a better ecosystem of credit for our customers.
Responsibilities
Campaign Execution: Set up, execute, and manage lifecycle campaigns across multiple channels, ensuring accurate delivery and effective engagement.
Marketing Technology: Master and manage CRM and marketing automation platforms such as Iterable, Sendgrid, Twilio, Telnyx, and Appsflyer to build journeys and automate processes.
Audience Management: Build and maintain dynamic customer audiences and data integrations from analytics platforms (Amplitude and Metabase), data warehouses (Snowflake), and attribution platforms (Appsflyer) to power personalized experiences at scale.
Template & Content Creation: Develop and maintain modular, reusable campaign templates and scalable content frameworks for different channels.
Quality Assurance (QA): Lead QA for all lifecycle touchpoints to ensure personalization, dynamic content, and journey triggers function as intended.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and BI teams to implement updates, troubleshoot issues, and ensure long-term platform scalability.
Testing & Optimization: Implement testing strategies and data integrations to drive continuous performance measurement using CRM (Iterable) and experimentation tools (Statsig).
Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive experimentation documentation, data schemas, and martech stack integrations.
Who you are
Technical Skills: Strong understanding of templating languages (Handlebars, HTML/CSS) for campaign asset and audience segmentation creation.
Marketing Automation Platforms: Hands-on experience with enterprise-level marketing automation and CRM platforms like Iterable, Braze, Iterable, or Customer.io. (Note: remove any external links.)
Data & Analytics: Data-savvy with strong command of audience segmentation, cohort analysis, and reporting. Experience with SQL for data extraction is a major plus.
Project Management: Exceptional communication, project management, and a bias for action. Experience using project management tools like Jira and Notion is helpful.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate marketing strategy into technical execution and align it with business goals.
Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy in campaign setup, personalization logic, and quality standards.
About Kikoff
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 are a profitable, high growth FinTech unicorn serving millions of people, many of whom are building credit or navigating life paycheck to paycheck. Founded in 2019, Kikoff is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by top-tier VC investors and 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 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
Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and consider 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: EEOC posters and OFCCP compliance resources are available on the U.S. government and EEOC websites. 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.
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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. We are a long-term financial partner for our customers with an exciting product roadmap of solutions to help customers reach their financial goals. We’re looking for a Lifecycle Marketing Operations Manager to serve as the technical link between marketing strategy and execution. This role is responsible for building, automating, and optimizing end-to-end customer lifecycle campaigns across channels including email, push notifications, SMS, and in‑app messaging. We seek data-driven problem solvers with a growth mindset who can evolve best practices, move quickly with attention to detail, and help us achieve big results. This is a full-time position in our San Francisco HQ with benefits and equity in a fast-moving environment that will help you grow your abilities and career as you help build a better ecosystem of credit for our customers.
Responsibilities
Campaign Execution: Set up, execute, and manage lifecycle campaigns across multiple channels, ensuring accurate delivery and effective engagement.
Marketing Technology: Master and manage CRM and marketing automation platforms such as Iterable, Sendgrid, Twilio, Telnyx, and Appsflyer to build journeys and automate processes.
Audience Management: Build and maintain dynamic customer audiences and data integrations from analytics platforms (Amplitude and Metabase), data warehouses (Snowflake), and attribution platforms (Appsflyer) to power personalized experiences at scale.
Template & Content Creation: Develop and maintain modular, reusable campaign templates and scalable content frameworks for different channels.
Quality Assurance (QA): Lead QA for all lifecycle touchpoints to ensure personalization, dynamic content, and journey triggers function as intended.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and BI teams to implement updates, troubleshoot issues, and ensure long-term platform scalability.
Testing & Optimization: Implement testing strategies and data integrations to drive continuous performance measurement using CRM (Iterable) and experimentation tools (Statsig).
Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive experimentation documentation, data schemas, and martech stack integrations.
Who you are
Technical Skills: Strong understanding of templating languages (Handlebars, HTML/CSS) for campaign asset and audience segmentation creation.
Marketing Automation Platforms: Hands-on experience with enterprise-level marketing automation and CRM platforms like Iterable, Braze, Iterable, or Customer.io. (Note: remove any external links.)
Data & Analytics: Data-savvy with strong command of audience segmentation, cohort analysis, and reporting. Experience with SQL for data extraction is a major plus.
Project Management: Exceptional communication, project management, and a bias for action. Experience using project management tools like Jira and Notion is helpful.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate marketing strategy into technical execution and align it with business goals.
Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy in campaign setup, personalization logic, and quality standards.
About Kikoff
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 are a profitable, high growth FinTech unicorn serving millions of people, many of whom are building credit or navigating life paycheck to paycheck. Founded in 2019, Kikoff is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by top-tier VC investors and 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 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
Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and consider 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: EEOC posters and OFCCP compliance resources are available on the U.S. government and EEOC websites. 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.
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