Kick

Kick

Automated bookkeeping and tax optimization platform

Chief of Staff

Full-TimePosted on 9/25/2026
$170k - $220k/yr

+ Equity + Health and commuter stipends

Mid
Palo Alto, CA, USA+2 more

More locations: Toronto, ON, Canada | New York, NY, USA

In Person

In-person work in Palo Alto is preferred; in-person work in New York City or Toronto may be considered.

About the job

Requirements
  • 3–7 years of post-graduate experience.
  • Experience in management consulting, investment banking, or a former chief of staff role.
  • Strong financial acumen, including building models from scratch and understanding how annual recurring revenue, net revenue retention, gross margin, and revenue recognition connect.
  • Ability to build and ship working dashboards, automations, and processes independently.
  • Daily use of artificial intelligence tools and experience building workflows with tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Clay, n8n, Zapier, or Claude Code.
  • Ability to run several projects simultaneously and make progress without a playbook.
  • Clear writing and communication skills, with credibility among the CEO, investors, and candidates.
Responsibilities
  • Optimize the finance technology stack, including billing, vendor evaluation, and payment processes.
  • Drive reporting efforts such as live annual recurring revenue tracking, margin analyses, and projections.
  • Support fundraising and investor relations, including the financial model, data room, and investor updates.
  • Build the revenue operations foundation by documenting the sales process, configuring the customer relationship management system, owning funnel reporting, and identifying conversion drivers as outbound sales scale.
  • Optimize customer support workflows and improve agent performance and service quality.
  • Build artificial intelligence agents and automations, including workflows that surface buying signals from LinkedIn and X.
  • Run key hires from sourcing through close, including designing work trials.
  • Upgrade human resources operations, including the technology stack and the first performance management framework.
  • Execute the company’s highest-priority projects with direct visibility into CEO priorities.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in venture capital, growth equity, or as an operator at a high-growth startup from Seed to Series B.
  • Experience starting new businesses or ventures.
  • Highly proficient use of artificial intelligence tools such as Claude.
  • Meaningful equity eligibility, including QSBS eligibility, early exercise, and extended exercise.

About the company

Kick.co is a fintech platform that helps small business owners, freelancers, and creators manage money with automated bookkeeping, tax-deduction optimization, and cash-back opportunities, using Blue Ridge Bank N.A. as its banking partner. Transactions are connected via users’ debit or credit cards, and the platform automatically categorizes income and expenses to save time and reduce audit risk, with AI guidance and human-assisted support. It stands out by blending automation with human help and community-sourced tax tips, focusing on tax savings and cash back while outsourcing banking. Its goal is to simplify financial management for its users, helping them save time and money through better bookkeeping and ongoing access to tax and cash-back opportunities.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$12M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Kick raised $20 million by November 3, 2025, backing product expansion.
  • Agent Builder Club launched August 10, 2026, deepening accountant adoption.
  • Kick says it serves thousands of U.S. businesses, signaling real market traction.

What critics are saying

  • FreshBooks partnership makes revenue concentration dangerous if channel economics deteriorate in 2026.
  • Bookkeeping automation faces Intuit, Xero, and FreshBooks bundling similar workflows quickly.
  • Negative trust issues from 2025 streamer-death investigation still threaten brand credibility.

What makes Kick unique

  • AI-native bookkeeping plus human review targets accountants, not just solo founders.
  • FreshBooks named Kick its official bookkeeping partner on January 7, 2026.
  • Kick’s accountant programs and community agents build distribution inside firm workflows.

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Medium
Nov 3rd, 2025
Kick has raised $20M to build the accounting firm of the future

Just 12 months since our launch last year, we’re excited to share more than 3,000 businesses have switched over to Kick.

VentureScout
Apr 14th, 2025
Kick - AI-Powered Accounting Software

Done-For-You Era Accounting

PYMNTS
Dec 30th, 2024
Online Bookkeeping Platform Bench Accounting Announces ‘Abrupt’ Shutdown

Canada-based online bookkeeping and tax filing platform Bench Accounting shut down its services and operations as of Friday (Dec. 27).“We regret to inform you that we have shut down Bench services,” the company said in a notice of service closure on its website. “As of December 27, 2024, the Bench platform is no longer accessible.”Bench’s bookkeeping services and tax advisory platform had more than 12,000 small business customers, according to a press release issued by Bench in September.When announcing a Series B-1 funding round in 2018, the company said it aimed to help small business owners and accountants build and grow their companies.In its Friday notice, Bench said customers will receive information about how to access their Bench records by Monday (Dec. 30) and that it recommends that customers contact modern accounting software provider Kick for support with their bookkeeping.“We know this news is abrupt and may cause disruption to our customers, so we’re committed to helping them navigate through the transition,” Bench said in the notice.The notice included a link to a Kick web page that described services to help customers migrate from Bench to Kick, including free Bench migration, daily live Q&As and a free 2024 bookkeeping review. With the code “BENCH,” customers can get 20% off the Kick Plus Plan and free Bench migration.Kick founder Conrad Wadowski wrote in a Friday post on LinkedIn that Kick is moving fast to offer these services so that Bench customers don’t have to start from scratch and so that Kick can “get your financials back in your hands.”“You may have just heard Bench has abruptly closed down,” Wadowski wrote in the post. “If you’re a customer, I can’t imagine the frustration you’re going through

US Connections
Dec 27th, 2024
Bench shuts down, leaving thousands of businesses without access to accounting and tax docs

The notice recommends customers migrate to Kick, a new accounting startup that announced its $9 million seed raise in October 2024 in a round led by OpenAI and General Catalyst.

MamStartup
Oct 28th, 2024
9 mln USD na „automatyzację nudnych rzeczy” w księgowoś...

Założony przez Conrada Wadowskiego startup zebrał 9 mln dolarów w rundzie seed. Pieniądze na automatyzację księgowości wyłożył OpenAI, General Catalyst oraz ponad 50 aniołów biznesu.