Product Manager

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Look deeply at the data and talk to users to find what engages them and create engagement loops using content and experiences that leverage product, comms and alert touch points.
• Constantly develop and experiment on experiences and types of content that will keep users hooked.
• Drive strategic insights that shape roadmaps for engineering, design and marketing using data and user stories to build conviction.
• Explore our data and users to create interesting segments and relevant insights and content to drive a virtuous loop of engagement.
• Take direction from leadership regarding the key objectives your team needs to drive, but outline a roadmap with your product team to achieve successful outcomes, together.
• Drive the discovery process to form a deep understanding of our users and to uncover the products and features that will best empower those consumers.
• Reach beyond instinct alone to capture and analyze the right data to allow you to make the most informed decisions as you continue to evolve your approach.
• Champion your products within your team, across the company, and with consumers.

Requirements

• Excellent writing and communication skills to communicate both with users and internally to drive strategy, learning and iteration.
• Readiness to roll up your sleeves in all parts of the content journey from copy to setting up comms and product touch points to measuring and interpreting results.
• Extremely data driven and constantly looking for the “why” behind the data to understand what drives user behaviors and explains metric patterns. Pulling the data yourself is a strong plus.
• You have empathy for consumers and a passion for solving consumer problems in new and innovative ways.
• You feel comfortable in the driver's seat and have a natural way of knowing how to get to the destination, but also know when it's time for others to drive.
• You've worked on successful digital consumer products for at least 2 years, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment.
• You can wear as many hats as necessary including marketer, researcher, interface designer, analyst, and friend.
• An interest in and/or history working on modern consumer financial tools and products, with your own perspective on how best to innovate in this space.

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate and master students or early career professionals with high potential such as from consulting or investment banking.
• A passion for solving problems derived from data-driven thinking and user needs.
• A futurist who can collaboratively lead a team to build towards a vision.
• 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.
• Technical background a big plus such as being able to pull data with SQL and read code.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
• 20 days of paid time off per year — we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work.
• 401(k) plan with a meaningful employer match to help you invest in your future.
• Competitive pay based on experience consisting of base + equity + benefits.

Pay

$160,000 - $200,000 USD

Schedule

Hybrid, 3 days onsite in San Francisco, CA.

Application Instructions

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