Product Manager

Summary

Kikoff is a FinTech unicorn on a mission to provide affordable financial tools for consumers. The Product Manager will work collaboratively to engage users, analyze data, and drive strategic insights that shape product roadmaps and empower users in achieving financial security.

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

Skills

• 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'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
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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'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

Nice to Haves

• 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

• Visa sponsorship available: Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.
• 🏥 Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
• 📈 Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
• 🏝️ 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