Senior Product Designer

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Own your product area like a business owner .
Track the key metrics that matter for your surface – conversion, engagement, retention, revenue impact – and treat them as your own scorecard, not just your PM's.
Own design end-to-end for your product area – from problem framing and early exploration through pixel-perfect delivery – in close partnership with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing.
Build interactive prototypes, functional demos, and testable mockups fast – using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex – so decisions get made on real artifacts instead of static mocks.
Design highly polished, visually compelling interfaces with a strong point of view on typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, and motion – across mobile and responsive web.
Run rigorous multi-directional explorations before converging, and know how to sell a direction with a well-constructed rationale grounded in user outcomes and business impact – not just aesthetics.
Drive design system evolution for your surface area – contributing new patterns, documenting usage, and coordinating with engineering to validate before shipping.
Lead and participate in design critiques , giving specific, principled feedback tied to design principles and user outcomes.
A track record of finding problems before they're assigned .
A demonstrated design systems contributor – someone who thinks in reusable patterns and has added meaningfully to a shared component library.

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.
Use AI tools to compress the distance between idea and alignment .
Hands-on fluency with AI design, prototyping, and coding tools .
You've used AI tools like to build functional demos or production-adjacent prototypes.
A strong eye for typography, color, layout, and motion, with the ability to articulate why each decision serves the user and the product. •
Experience designing consumer-facing mobile and web products ; comfort moving fluidly across fidelity levels without losing quality at any stage.
Proficiency in Figma; strong prototyping instincts, especially for interaction and motion concepts that are hard to communicate statically.
The ability to build cross-functional buy-in using evidence and clear rationale – not just preference or aesthetics.

We're a profitable, high growth FinTech unicorn serving millions of people, many of whom are building credit or navigating life paycheck to paycheck.
Bonus points if the portfolio shows how your design work moved a metric or changed a product strategy.
A low-ego collaborator who raises the bar through critique, mentorship, and shared craft standards. Base Range $190,000 — $223,000 USD
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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. What you'll do
Proactively surface product gaps and opportunities before they're on the roadmap, and come with a POV on what to build next and why.
Regularly challenge PRDs before executing : reframe problems, propose alternative solution directions, and push back when the initial framing isn't right.
Bring your own data, user insight, or competitive context when you do – not just instinct.
Shipping a working demo in a day should feel normal.
Hold the detail bar : every interaction, state, edge case, and visual decision is considered before handoff. What we're looking for
experience , with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and evidence of problem-framing – not just execution.