Growth Marketer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Marketing
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 2+ years of experience in growth marketing, performance marketing, influencer marketing, podcast advertising, partnerships, or a related field
- Experience managing performance-oriented influencer and/or podcast marketing programs
- Strong understanding of direct-response marketing and customer acquisition economics
- Proven ability to manage media budgets and make data-driven investment decisions
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with CAC, ROAS, conversion rates, attribution, and other performance metrics
- Strong negotiation and relationship-management skills
- Excellent project management and organizational skills—you can manage many partners, campaigns, and deadlines simultaneously
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and independently driving projects from strategy through execution
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A bias toward testing, learning, and iteration
Nice to have
- Experience with both influencer and podcast advertising
- Experience buying media directly from creators, podcast hosts, or networks/agencies
- Experience with performance-based compensation structures such as CPA, hybrid CPA/CPM, or revenue-share deals
- Familiarity with podcast measurement and attribution platforms such as Podscribe
- Experience with influencer attribution and tracking platforms
- Experience working in fintech, consumer apps, subscriptions, or other performance-driven businesses
- Experience scaling a channel from early testing into a meaningful acquisition program
Full description
Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. 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.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
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.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Growth Marketer to own and scale our influencer and podcast channels. This person will be responsible for driving measurable customer acquisition through creator partnerships as well as collaborate with the Paid Social team on paid amplification.
You’ll own the channels end-to-end—including sourcing, negotiations, measurement & performance analysis, creative briefing, and developing strategies to improve efficiency and scale. This is a highly cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of growth marketing, partnerships, media buying, analytics, and creative.
The ideal candidate is highly analytical and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment. You should be excited by the challenge of turning creator partnerships into predictable, scalable acquisition channels.
What You’ll Do
Own Influencer & Podcast Growth
- Own the day-to-day execution and growth of the influencer and podcast programs, including sourcing, vetting, negotiations, briefings, contracting, measurement, and performance tracking.
- Build and maintain the operational infrastructure needed to scale the programs, including creator databases, rate benchmarks, contracting templates, and briefing processes.
- Develop channel strategies and testing roadmaps that balance CAC efficiency, acquisition volume, and scalability.
- Identify gaps and opportunities across creator mix, content formats, and distribution partners, and recommend ways to evolve the programs.
Manage Partnerships
- Source, evaluate, negotiate, and launch partnerships with influencers & creator agencies, podcast hosts & podcast networks
- Negotiate CPM, CPA, and hybrid deals to drive efficient customer acquisition.
- Develop frameworks for evaluating new partners based on audience, economics, historical performance, and strategic fit.