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Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower millions to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, the company has built a suite of products helping people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
This is Kikoff's first dedicated securities and corporate counsel role. You will drive corporate and securities work, build the systems and discipline a public company requires, and serve as the in-house expert on financings, governance, and equity. You will work directly with the Chief Legal Officer, CFO, Finance team, executive team, and board. The legal team is small and deliberately senior, meaning real ownership and minimal hierarchy.
Key responsibilities include:
**Public-Company Readiness**: Build governance and disclosure infrastructure—disclosure controls and procedures, disclosure committee, reporting calendars, board support, insider trading policies, Section 16 and Reg FD frameworks, and 10b5-1 programs.
**IPO Execution**: If the company pursues an offering, lead the working group: registration statement drafting and diligence, underwriter and auditor coordination, quiet-period discipline, and exchange listing.
**Capital Markets & Financings**: Lead legal execution on equity and debt financings, warehouse and credit facilities, convertible instruments, secondary transactions, and accompanying diligence.
**M&A and Strategic Transactions**: Lead legal execution on acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions—structuring, diligence, drafting LOIs, purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, and post-closing support.
**Corporate Governance**: Handle board and committee mechanics, resolutions, minutes, charters, delegations of authority, D&O questionnaires, related-party reviews, and subsidiary governance.
**Equity Compensation**: Partner with Finance and People on option and RSU grants, 409A valuations, Rule 701 compliance, plan amendments, and public-company equity program design.
**SEC Reporting**: Own the periodic-reporting cycle—10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and proxy materials—in coordination with Finance, Investor Relations, and external counsel.
**General Corporate**: Handle commercial agreements, bank and vendor partnerships, intercompany arrangements, and miscellaneous corporate matters.
Required qualifications: J.D. and active bar membership in good standing (California or eligible for in-house counsel registration); 8–15 years post-J.D. experience with substantial securities and capital markets work at a leading law firm; fluency in Securities Act and Exchange Act frameworks; public company experience including hands-on SEC reporting and disclosure; proven ability to close complicated processes; and ability to explain legal requirements to non-lawyers and be credible with CFOs, audit partners, and bankers.
Preferred: In-house experience taking a company public or serving on an S-1 working group; fintech, consumer finance, or high-growth technology background; familiarity with bank partnership models, consumer lending, or earned-wage access products.
