HR Business Partner, Kikoff
$160-180k
+ Equity
Personal finance & credit building platform
Job no longer available
Personal finance & credit building platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$160-180k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to achieve financial security, no matter where they're starting from.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for someone who can bring the analytical rigor and performance optimization mindset of elite sports teams to every aspect of our employee lifecycle
- A data-driven HR expert with 3+ years of progressive experience, including at least 2 years in an HRBP role at a venture capital backed tech company
- You have an advanced degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, HR, Business Analytics, or a related field
- An analytical powerhouse who goes beyond basic HR metrics to build sophisticated models and derive actionable insights
- You have strong statistical analysis skills and experience with HR analytics tools and data visualization beyond calculating averages on an employee engagement survey
- A first-principles thinker who can break down complex personnel challenges to their fundamental elements and build innovative solutions that scale
- You're comfortable challenging traditional HR “best practices” when data suggests better approaches
- A proven builder who has either created or significantly improved performance management systems
- You have a track record of using data to drive meaningful improvements in talent outcomes
- A strategic partner who deeply understands how HR practices impact business performance and can connect people initiatives to quantifiable business results
- You're able to influence across all levels of the organization through data-driven insights
- A values-aligned leader who can act with urgency, build transparently, take extreme ownership of outcomes, and balance playful creativity with serious goal orientation in your approach to HR challenges
What the job involves
- As our Senior HR Business Partner, you'll be the driving force behind transforming Kikoff's approach to talent management and development
- This role goes beyond traditional HR - you'll help develop and implement data analytics and benchmarking to drive decision-making, shape our high-performance culture, and build scalable people systems that support our rapid growth
- Working directly with leadership, you'll have significant impact on how we develop, engage, and retain top talent while embodying our core values: act with urgency, build in public, extreme ownership, and work playfully but goal seriously
- Your success will be measured through quantifiable improvements in performance metrics, talent outcomes, and organizational effectiveness
- Partner with functional leads to architect foundational talent systems to organize how people grow and get rewarded, including: job architecture, compensation bands, career ladders, and promotion criteria
- Work closely with engineering, product, and other department heads to define clear technical and behavioral expectations for each level, calibrate compensation against market data, and create transparent growth paths aligned with business needs
- Collaborate with team leads to build and maintain active performance measurement systems that improve how people and teams perform
- Partner with each function to develop relevant KPIs, implement regular performance measurement cadence, and create predictive analytics that identify high-potential talent and retention risks within their specific domains
- Build automated dashboards and reporting systems that enable leadership to make evidence-based decisions about talent strategy, tracking everything from engagement metrics, the relationship (if any) between office attendance and performance, to the ROI of learning initiatives and the effectiveness of company policies
- Lead the evolution of our performance-driven culture by using data to shape policies around remote work, time off, professional development, and other key aspects of the employee experience
- Your approach should balance quantitative insights with our company values
- Create and implement targeted development programs based on skill gap analysis and performance data, ensuring we're investing in our talent in ways that drive measurable business outcomes
Our take
Having a solid credit history is a fundamental building block for financial health and there is a large market of people looking to build or rebuild their credit scores. Roughly half of all American adults have subprime credit or no credit whatsoever, and it’s safe to say there is a demand for credit products tailored to beginners and builders.
Kikoff is a credit-building platform aimed at Millennials and GenZ. Their signature product helps consumers without a credit history to positively influence several key aspects of their credit score. This includes their payment history, how much they owe, and the length of their account history.
Kikoff's goal is to help customers across their entire financial journeys and create a simple and positive banking relationship: from stabilizing cash flows to accumulating savings, and building towards long-term goals such as a mortgage. The company plans to build out its technology and team, across all function areas, to bring new products to market in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42.5m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits
- Flexible PTO Policy
- Kickoff Paid Holidays
- Office Lunch & Dinners
- Commuter Benefits
- Commuter Flexible Savings
- 401k Matching
- Fitness Benefit Policy
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Cynthia Chen
(Co-Founder & CEO)An experienced Chief Revenue/Risk Officer, Cynthia has worked at OnDeck, LendingHome and Figure. Co-founded Figure in 2018, and Kikoff in 2019.
Christophe Chong
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as a Software Engineer at Facebook from 2016-2019, and Head of Growth at Lime between 2018-2019. Co-founded Kikoff in 2019.
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