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Posted May 8Compensation Manager
at Kikoff
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Maintain Kikoff's salary structure end-to-end: Radford-benchmarked bands by job and level, geographic differentials, annual market refreshes, and the job matching that connects our roles to the underlying survey data
- Run the annual merit and promotion cycle — proration logic, manager allocation tools, calibration support, and final letter generation — and handle out-of-cycle adjustments through the year
- Execute the equity program day-to-day: new hire grant recommendations, refresh administration on our frontloaded vesting framework, grant table maintenance, and Carta operations
- Own pay transparency and compliance — pay range posting
- Drive IPO readiness work end-to-end in partnership with the VP of People — NEO benchmarking analysis, CD&A prep, ESPP and PSU plan design, and equity education for the broader team
- Build and maintain comp dashboards and reporting in partnership with People Analytics — burn rate, dilution, comp ratio against bands, pay equity, and refresh scenarios
Requirements
- Kikoff: A FinTech Unicorn Powering Financial Progress with AI
- With innovative technology and AI, we simplify credit building, reduce debt, and expand access to financial opportunities to those who need them the most.
- We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships.
- experience with Radford or another major tech comp survey, including job matching, market analysis, and band construction
- Strong analytical skills with deep Excel/Sheets fluency, comfort in HRIS comp modules, and ideally hands-on
- experience with Pave, Lattice, or comparable tooling
- Familiarity with pay transparency
- Kikoff is an AI-first fintech company on a mission to empower people to achieve financial security.
- Our products — including our top-rated credit builder, AI debt negotiator, and AI credit disputes tool — are the highest-rated in their categories on both iOS and Android.
Benefits
- We're a profitable, high growth FinTech unicorn serving millions of people, many of whom are building credit or navigating life paycheck to paycheck.
- Compensation Manager
- Kikoff is looking for a Compensation Manager to own our cash and equity programs end-to-end as we scale toward IPO.
- You'll be the in-house comp expert who turns our compensation philosophy into the systems that run underneath every offer, merit cycle, promotion, and equity refresh — making sure the bands hold up, the grants land where they should, and the data is clean enough to defend to a comp committee.
- Build comp materials and competitive intelligence for offer construction with Recruiting, including total compensation views for senior candidates
- requirements (CO, NY, CA, and other jurisdictions), FLSA classification, and pay equity audits
- 5+ years of compensation
- experience at a tech company, including direct ownership of merit cycle administration, salary band maintenance, and equity grant operations Hands-on
- Strong fluency with equity mechanics — vesting schedules, refresh design, grant tables, ISO/NSO/RSU treatment, and the Carta workflows that operationalize all of it Pre-IPO
- experience is a strong plus, particularly with equity refresh redesign, ESPP or PSU plan design, or supporting NEO disclosure prep
- 🏥 Medical, dental, vision — Kikoff covers the full cost for employees, 50% for dependents 📈 Stock options
- 🛃 Visa sponsorship available
- Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: At Kikoff, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees.
- Base Range $185,000 — $225,000 USD
- Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Additional details
- At Kikoff, our mission is to provide radically affordable financial tools to help consumers achieve financial security.
- Founded in 2019, Kikoff is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by top-tier VC investors and NBA star Stephen Curry. 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.
- Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
- This role reports to the VP of People and works closely with People Analytics, the stock admin team on Carta, Recruiting on offers, Finance on comp budgets, and HRBPs on individual cases.
- This is a senior individual contributor role — no direct reports today — with a path to build a team as the function scales. What You'll Do
- Serve as the comp expert on individual cases for HRBPs, recruiters, and managers — including the harder conversations where the framework has to drive the answer
- Partner with Finance on comp accruals, merit pool sizing, and budget reconciliation About You
- requirements across CO, NY, CA, and other jurisdictions
- A pragmatic communicator who can translate comp logic for non-comp audiences — managers building business cases, candidates negotiating offers, Managerership weighing trade-offs