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Creative Operations Short Term Employee

Join Kikoff as a Creative Operations Manager to optimize video workflows and drive AI-native creative processes.

Location
San Francisco
Compensation
$112k–$112k/yr
Level
mid
Type
contract

Posted by employer 1 month ago

First seen on Joblaze 4 days ago

Last verified on the company career page 21 hours ago

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What you'll build

  • Optimize the Video Creative Engine
  • Drive the Shift to AI-Native Creative Workflows
  • Drive Creative Reviews
  • Make Reviews Faster & Smarter
  • Improve Resourcing & Capacity

Must have

  • 5+ years in creative operations
  • Strong experience with performance video creative

Nice to have

  • Experience working closely with paid acquisition teams
  • Experience with AI-assisted creative workflows
  • Experience managing a mix of internal teams, freelancers, agencies, and creators
  • Experience in fintech or another highly regulated category

AI in the day-to-day

Lead the transition from traditional creative processes to AI-native ways of working across ideation, scripting, video production, and more.

Requirements

Experience
5+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.

Joblaze summary

The Creative Operations Manager at Kikoff focuses on optimizing the video creative process, ensuring efficient production from concept to launch while integrating AI to enhance workflows. This role requires expertise in performance video across platforms like Meta and TikTok, along with a strong background in creative operations and marketing. Ideal candidates are experienced professionals who thrive in fast-paced environments and can navigate complex operational challenges. Kikoff's emphasis on innovation and efficiency reflects its growth as a pre-IPO fintech company.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed 4 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 28, 2026. Last confirmed on Kikoff's careers page October 2, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for Management roles (median ~$170,000).
  • Starts above 23% of 31 comparable mid management roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $155,488 across 20 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
  • AI/ML appears in 14.7% of 436 comparable mid management roles in United States.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?
Kikoff lists $112,000–$112,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Creative Operations Short Term Employee role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Creative Operations, Video, performance video.
What seniority level is this role?
Kikoff targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Contract for this Creative Operations Short Term Employee role at Kikoff.

From the original posting

Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.

We’re looking for a Creative Operations Manager to join us for a 3–6 month engagement with a specific mission: help us build a faster, smarter, more AI-enabled creative operation, with a heavy focus on performance video.

Video is a major part of our creative engine, spanning paid social, creators, UGC, and other performance channels. You’ll work alongside Creative and Growth leadership to understand how that engine works today, identify where time and resources are being lost, and build better ways of working.

A major part of your role will be exploring how AI, automation, and new creative tools can fundamentally improve our workflows, from production to reviews, versioning, analysis, and creative learnings. We’re not looking to layer AI onto existing processes for the sake of it. We want someone who can ask: Why are we doing this manually at all?

This is not a traditional project management role focused on moving tasks from one stage to the next. You’ll be expected to get into the weeds of how creative gets made, especially video, understand what drives performance, and redesign the systems around it.

What You’ll Do

  • Optimize the Video Creative Engine: Get deep into how performance video moves from concept to script, production, editing, review, iteration, trafficking, and launch. Identify bottlenecks and build systems that help us produce more high-quality video, faster.
  • Drive the Shift to AI-Native Creative Workflows: Lead the transition from traditional creative processes to AI-native ways of working across ideation, scripting, video production, editing, versioning, localization, QA, reviews, and creative analysis. Identify where AI can replace, compress, or fundamentally redesign existing workflows, implement the right tools and processes, and drive adoption across the team.
  • Drive Creative Reviews: Own and run the day-to-day creative review process, with a heavy focus on performance video. Keep reviews moving, consolidate feedback, ensure the right stakeholders are involved, and push work toward clear decisions and launch.
  • Make Reviews Faster & Smarter: Identify where reviews are creating unnecessary work or bottlenecks, then use clearer standards, better processes, AI, and automation to reduce manual review without sacrificing creative quality or compliance.
  • Improve Resourcing & Capacity: Maintain a holistic view of demand and capacity across editors, creators, designers, agencies, freelancers, and AI-enabled production. Surface tradeoffs early and identify where new workflows can unlock additional capacity.
  • Build Better Visibility: Create lightweight systems that give Creative and Growth leadership a clear view into what’s being made, what’s blocked, where resources are going, and what is actually driving results.
  • Solve High-Impact Operational Problems: Jump into messy, ambiguous problems, diagnose the root cause, and implement practical solutions that make the Creative organization faster and more effective.

Who You Are

  • 5+ years in creative operations, creative production, performance creative, integrated production, marketing operations.
  • You thrive at high volume and high speed. You’ve operated in environments shipping a large volume of creative every week, where priorities shift quickly and processes need to enable speed rather than slow it down.
  • Strong experience with performance video creative, ideally across paid social channels such as Meta, TikTok, YouTube, or similar platforms..
  • Highly AI-curious and hands-on. You actively experiment with AI tools and are excited about using them to rethink how creative work gets done, not just incrementally speed up existing processes.
  • Highly systems-oriented. You can solve the immediate problem while also asking what needs to change so the problem doesn’t happen again.
  • Excellent communicator who can move fluidly between detailed execution and higher-level operational recommendations.

Bonus Points

  • Experience working closely with paid acquisition teams and creative performance data.
  • Experience with AI-assisted creative workflows and automation.
  • Experience managing a mix of internal teams, freelancers, agencies, and creators.
  • Experience in fintech or another highly regulated category.
Base Range
$112,000—$112,000 USD

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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