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Senior Design & Motion Creative

Kikoff Inc
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/3/2025

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.

The gist :

We're looking for a motivated and creative Marketing Designer to join our in-house creative team. This person will take pride in creating beautiful and compelling digital experiences, that drives engagement through all our marketing channels and beyond. You will help create assets that support go-to-market (GTM) strategies and integrated marketing campaigns, including but not limited to email, social media content, paid media and various landing pages, as well as assets for our affiliate partners. You will design eye-catching ads that captivate our audience and drive measurable engagement, ensuring all design elements align with our brand guidelines as they evolve.

Our team is young, hungry, and scaling fast-and as a data-driven company, we're big on numbers. If you're looking to play a key role in building out our ground-floor creative machine-and learn more in a year than most learn in five-you've come to the right place. Because our creative output is video-first, any interest or experience in motion graphics and animations are a huge bonus.

This is a full-time hybrid 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. Currently, the Creative team works in the SF office ~4 days / week.

What you'll do :

  • Develop and design graphics for digital media, including social media, websites, emails and marketing materials.
  • Work alongside the Senior Designer and Creative Director on the visual execution and evolution of the Kikoff Brand.
  • Help uphold and maintain a consistent brand guidelines across all deliverables.
  • Collaborate with Creative and cross-functional teams to deliver designs that are creative, enguaging, and align with brand standards and business goals..
  • Solicit and integrate design feedback from creative leaders while independently executing revisions.
  • Design high-quality deliverables. Generate high-resolution graphics, illustrations, and layouts that meet both creative and technical standards.
  • Demonstrate an excellent understanding of design principles and a commitment to consistently creating competitively engaging work.
  • Exhibit excellent time management skills and the ability to work concurrently on multiple projects.
  • Conceptualize and bring unique creative ideas from ideation to execution.
  • Stay updated on trends. Follow design trends and best practices to ensure that all graphics are creative and on-brand.

What we're looking for :

  • 4 years of experience in digital, graphic, brand, and / or marketing design & base level proficiency in animation / motion (AE)
  • Motion, GFX, or post-production experience (in addition to static design) is necessary, as you will work closely with both video editors and designers

  • Familiarity with generative AI creative tooling is a plus
  • Expertise in Figma, Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
  • An understanding for visual design, color, layout, typography, and information hierarchy.
  • Portfolio of beautiful, compelling digital graphic design work that spans multiple disciplines, placements, and / or channels
  • Pixel-perfect attention to detail.
  • Experience working on a range of digital projects including, social media, email designs, and banner ads.
  • Ability to take constructive criticism and adapt the work appropriately.
  • Empathetic. You take time to understand the audiences you design for-and speak directly to their needs and emotions.
  • Analytical. You're not afraid to dive into the data, using audience insights to help shape your copy.
  • Collaborative. You'll work side-by-side with designers, marketing managers, and more.
  • Articulate. You can express the intentions behind your words and ideas.
  • Open & hungry to learn. We've developed a proven strategy for high-performance creative-so an openness to learning how we do things is a must, coupled with a hunger to evolve, adapt, and build upon existing approaches.
  • Ability to take things on with agency, speed, and sometimes minimal direction (we run a lot of experiments!)
  • About Kikoff :

    Kikoff is the fastest consumer fintech to hit $100MM ARR and is reinventing the credit space, offering credit-building solutions that are affordable, accessible, and educational to address the catch 22 on improving credit. 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.

    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 are backed by some of Silicon Valley's top VCs. 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.

    US salary range for this full-time position consists of base equity benefits

    Our salary ranges are determined by role and experience :

    base equity

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

    Stock Options

    Visa sponsorship available : Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.

    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.

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    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.

    San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance : Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Kikoff will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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