Creative Director, Video & Design

🏢 Kikoff · 📍 San Francisco 💰 $163,000 - $163,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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 Creative Director to lead our video and visual design teams and shape the next chapter of Kikoff’s creative, bringing exceptional creative judgment and a strong understanding of what makes performance advertising effective. You’ll help define our visual identity and lead evergreen performance creative across TV, paid social, and other marketing channels, making our brands more recognizable and driving efficient acquisition.

You bring exceptional taste, strong advertising instincts, and a clear point of view on what makes creative effective. You can see the potential in an idea and give specific direction that makes it stronger. You’re equally invested in developing people, helping creatives build their judgment, sharpen their craft, and take on greater ownership.

Please include a portfolio featuring TV and paid social advertising, measurable results, and examples of a visual identity you helped define or evolve.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead creative direction for evergreen performance advertising across video and visual design. Turn consumer needs and product benefits into clear, compelling creative that drives acquisition and conversion.
  • Partner with Brand leadership to define and evolve Kikoff’s visual identity. Translate brand strategy into a distinctive, practical system of design, imagery, and motion that makes our creative more consistent and recognizable.
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Kikoff Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluators heavily weigh financial inclusion impact metrics, credit-risk modeling intuition, and hyper-growth acquisition strategies for underserved segments.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Elitist or predatory attitudes toward low-income or building-credit consumers.
  • 2. Inability to balance aggressive user acquisition with prudent credit risk management.
  • 3. Lack of compliance awareness regarding fair lending laws and credit bureau reporting.
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