Program Overview: The Rotational Associate Manager Program at Kikoff is designed to accelerate the development of high-potential individuals by providing comprehensive exposure across critical business functions, including Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, and Business Development. Associates will participate in multiple rotations, gaining hands-on experience, mentorship from senior leaders, and specialized training designed to fast-track their careers.
Inspired by successful leadership journeys—including our current Head of Marketing who began their career through a similar rotational program at Google—this program is built on mentorship, practical experience, and accelerated professional growth.
About Kikoff: Kikoff is a fintech unicorn offering credit-building solutions that are radically affordable, accessible, and effective. Our core product, the Kikoff Credit Account, is helping over a million customers build better credit. Kikoff has been featured by Nerdwallet, Forbes, Buzzfeed, Business Insider, CNBC, Bloomberg, and others; and our app has a 4.9 rating amongst hundreds of 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.
Program Structure:
- Initial Training Rotation (~1 month): Associates will experience hands-on training across multiple teams, including Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, and Business Development. This period focuses on foundational training, business acumen, and industry-specific knowledge.
- Focused Rotations: Following the training period, associates will be matched to specific teams based on their skills, interests, and business needs. Associates will then complete two rotations (approximately 6 months each), allowing deeper exposure, responsibility, and impactful contributions within each area.
Potential Rotational Areas:
- Product Marketing: Learn how we position, message, and launch products to customers, gain insights into our users and shape the product roadmap.
- Growth Marketing: Drive user acquisition or increased user retention and monetization through data-driven marketing strategies and experimentation.
- Business Development: Build partnerships, negotiate deals, and identify new growth opportunities for Kikoff.
What You’ll Gain:
- Comprehensive training across essential business disciplines
- Mentorship from senior leaders and industry experts
- Hands-on experience managing impactful projects
- Clarity in career direction with pathways to future leadership roles
- A supportive, dynamic work environment in an innovative fintech company
Ideal Candidates:
- Current undergraduate and master students or early career professionals with high potential such as from consulting or investment banking
- Highly motivated, curious, and adaptable individuals
- Excellent communication, analytical, and first principles problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated leadership potential and eagerness to learn
- Strategic thinker able to breakdown and organize problems, assess opportunity areas, and develop big ideas and priorities to move the business forward.
- Have strong bias to action and hunger to move fast and flexibly
If you're eager to accelerate your career, learn across diverse business functions, and become part of a dynamic team shaping financial futures, we invite you to apply!
