Product Manager

Kikoff

$160K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in digital consumer products, ideally in a startup
  • Strong analytical skills, especially in data interpretation and user behavior
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders
  • Empathy for consumers and a passion for solving their problems
  • Comfortable with hands-on involvement in various aspects of product development
  • Technical skills, such as SQL and coding knowledge are a plus

Responsibilities

  • Analyze data and user feedback to enhance engagement and create content loops
  • Develop and test new user experiences to maintain user interest
  • Generate strategic insights to inform product roadmaps and decision-making
  • Segment users and identify relevant data to drive engagement
  • Collaborate with your team to set objectives and outline actionable roadmaps
  • Lead discovery processes to understand consumer needs and product potential
  • Advocate for your products across teams and with users

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with full employee cost coverage
  • Meaningful equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 20 days of paid time off annually to promote employee well-being
  • 401(k) plan with significant employer matching contributions
  • Flexible hybrid work environment with 3 days on-site in San Francisco
  • Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates including H1-B and green cards
Full Job Description


What you can expect in this role:
  • 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.

What will help make you successful:
  • 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

Ideal Candidates:
  • 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.


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

Location: Hybrid, 3 days onsite in San Francisco, CA.

Visa sponsorship available: Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.

Base Range

$160,000-$200,000 USD

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