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Creative Marketing Manager roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as a specialty occupation requiring a bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field. Employers file a Labor Condition Application before sponsoring, and the annual cap means timing your job search around the selection process matters.
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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.
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. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Kikoff is looking for a Marketing & Creative Operations Manager to help our creative team deliver more impactful work through better resourcing, workflow improvements, and automation.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Brand & Creative, you’ll own day-to-day creative operations across our internal team, agencies, and freelancers. You’ll build on an established operating process, identifying opportunities to increase output, reduce manual coordination, and make better use of our creative resources.
An early priority will be leading our transition away from Jira, translating established workflows into a new platform. You’ll also identify opportunities to improve connectivity with Growth, streamlining asset delivery and the flow of performance feedback into creative development.
You’re a hands-on operator who understands creative work, makes thoughtful resource decisions, and knows how to improve processes without adding unnecessary complexity.
Creative resourcing and delivery
- Own resource allocation and capacity planning across internal creatives, agencies, and freelancers, matching assignments to skills, availability, and business priorities.
- Partner with creative leaders to prioritize work, resolve resource conflicts, and identify opportunities to increase creative volume within existing capacity.
- Manage intake, assignments, timelines, and dependencies across video, design, copy, and creator content.
- Keep projects moving through feedback and approvals, coordinating with creative stakeholders, Legal, and Compliance as review requirements evolve.
- Maintain visibility into workloads, project status, and delivery risks, resolving blockers and bringing clear recommendations when tradeoffs are needed.
- Manage external creative resources, tracking capacity, deliverables, and costs to inform resourcing decisions.
Process improvement and automation
- Evaluate existing workflows and identify targeted improvements that reduce friction, shorten turnaround times, and improve resource utilization.
- Lead the transition from Jira, translating our established intake, tracking, and review workflows into a new platform while identifying opportunities to simplify and automate.
- Identify and implement automation and AI tools that reduce repetitive coordination, status updates, review routing, and reporting.
- Improve how we track creative volume, turnaround times, review cycles, and capacity, using operational data to guide decisions and measure progress.
- Maintain clear documentation and practical working standards, ensuring tools and processes remain useful as the team’s needs change.
Cross-functional connectivity
- Partner with Growth to improve asset handoffs and performance feedback workflows, helping creative teams access and apply learnings more efficiently.
- Explore opportunities to automate asset delivery, uploads, and connections between creative workflow tools and marketing systems.
- Apply successful workflow improvements to adjacent marketing processes as needs and opportunities emerge.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years of experience in creative operations, marketing operations, or creative program management within an in-house team or agency.
- Hands-on experience resourcing creative teams across video, design, and copy.
- A track record of improving output, turnaround times, or costs within an established operation.
- Experience migrating established workflows between platforms and driving team adoption.
- Practical experience building automations that reduce manual work.
- Strong analytical judgment and confidence making resource recommendations and challenging assumptions constructively.
- Clear communication and the ability to coordinate priorities across teams without direct reporting authority.
- Willingness to own daily execution while continuously improving how work gets done.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience supporting high-volume performance creative.
- Familiarity with AI tools, no-code automation, and integrations between creative and marketing systems.
- Experience coordinating legal or compliance reviews in a regulated industry.
- Familiarity with asset management, paid media delivery, and creative performance feedback processes.
BENEFITS
- Medical, dental, vision — Kikoff covers the full cost for employees, 50% for dependents
- Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
- ️ 20 days of paid time off per year — we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work
- 401(k) plan with an employer match to help you invest in your future
- Competitive pay based on experience consisting of base + equity + benefits
Base Range
$119,000 - $145,000 USD
A note on applying: We know great candidates sometimes hold back if they don’t meet every qualification listed. If you’re excited about this role and believe you can do the work, we encourage you to apply. We’re looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
INTRODUCTION
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.
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. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Kikoff is looking for a Marketing & Creative Operations Manager to help our creative team deliver more impactful work through better resourcing, workflow improvements, and automation.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Brand & Creative, you’ll own day-to-day creative operations across our internal team, agencies, and freelancers. You’ll build on an established operating process, identifying opportunities to increase output, reduce manual coordination, and make better use of our creative resources.
An early priority will be leading our transition away from Jira, translating established workflows into a new platform. You’ll also identify opportunities to improve connectivity with Growth, streamlining asset delivery and the flow of performance feedback into creative development.
You’re a hands-on operator who understands creative work, makes thoughtful resource decisions, and knows how to improve processes without adding unnecessary complexity.
Creative resourcing and delivery
- Own resource allocation and capacity planning across internal creatives, agencies, and freelancers, matching assignments to skills, availability, and business priorities.
- Partner with creative leaders to prioritize work, resolve resource conflicts, and identify opportunities to increase creative volume within existing capacity.
- Manage intake, assignments, timelines, and dependencies across video, design, copy, and creator content.
- Keep projects moving through feedback and approvals, coordinating with creative stakeholders, Legal, and Compliance as review requirements evolve.
- Maintain visibility into workloads, project status, and delivery risks, resolving blockers and bringing clear recommendations when tradeoffs are needed.
- Manage external creative resources, tracking capacity, deliverables, and costs to inform resourcing decisions.
Process improvement and automation
- Evaluate existing workflows and identify targeted improvements that reduce friction, shorten turnaround times, and improve resource utilization.
- Lead the transition from Jira, translating our established intake, tracking, and review workflows into a new platform while identifying opportunities to simplify and automate.
- Identify and implement automation and AI tools that reduce repetitive coordination, status updates, review routing, and reporting.
- Improve how we track creative volume, turnaround times, review cycles, and capacity, using operational data to guide decisions and measure progress.
- Maintain clear documentation and practical working standards, ensuring tools and processes remain useful as the team’s needs change.
Cross-functional connectivity
- Partner with Growth to improve asset handoffs and performance feedback workflows, helping creative teams access and apply learnings more efficiently.
- Explore opportunities to automate asset delivery, uploads, and connections between creative workflow tools and marketing systems.
- Apply successful workflow improvements to adjacent marketing processes as needs and opportunities emerge.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years of experience in creative operations, marketing operations, or creative program management within an in-house team or agency.
- Hands-on experience resourcing creative teams across video, design, and copy.
- A track record of improving output, turnaround times, or costs within an established operation.
- Experience migrating established workflows between platforms and driving team adoption.
- Practical experience building automations that reduce manual work.
- Strong analytical judgment and confidence making resource recommendations and challenging assumptions constructively.
- Clear communication and the ability to coordinate priorities across teams without direct reporting authority.
- Willingness to own daily execution while continuously improving how work gets done.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience supporting high-volume performance creative.
- Familiarity with AI tools, no-code automation, and integrations between creative and marketing systems.
- Experience coordinating legal or compliance reviews in a regulated industry.
- Familiarity with asset management, paid media delivery, and creative performance feedback processes.
BENEFITS
- Medical, dental, vision — Kikoff covers the full cost for employees, 50% for dependents
- Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
- ️ 20 days of paid time off per year — we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work
- 401(k) plan with an employer match to help you invest in your future
- Competitive pay based on experience consisting of base + equity + benefits
Base Range
$119,000 - $145,000 USD
A note on applying: We know great candidates sometimes hold back if they don’t meet every qualification listed. If you’re excited about this role and believe you can do the work, we encourage you to apply. We’re looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Creative Marketing Manager
Frame your portfolio as specialty occupation evidence
USCIS scrutinizes whether Creative Marketing Manager roles require a specific degree, not just any bachelor's. Build a portfolio narrative that ties your creative strategy work directly to your marketing or communications degree, not just your outputs.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Agencies, in-house brand teams at mid-size tech companies, and enterprise consumer goods firms file LCAs for creative marketing roles regularly. Cross-reference OFLC public disclosure data to confirm an employer has certified this job title before, not just engineering roles.
Clarify your degree field before applying
Employers sometimes reject creative candidates whose degrees are in fine arts or graphic design rather than marketing or business. Use O*NET to confirm which degree fields USCIS accepts for this occupation, then address any mismatch proactively in your application materials.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsors
Search Migrate Mate's job board to identify employers with verified LCA sponsorship history for creative marketing roles. This filters out companies that sponsor engineers exclusively and surfaces teams already set up to hire international marketing talent.
Ask about LCA timing before accepting an offer
Your employer must file a certified LCA with DOL before submitting your H-1B petition. Confirm the hiring team knows this sequence, since some creative agencies assume sponsorship starts at USCIS and skip the prevailing wage step, which delays your start date.
Document campaign ownership for specialty occupation RFEs
USCIS sometimes issues Requests for Evidence questioning whether creative marketing work requires a degree. Gather performance briefs, strategy documents, and cross-functional leadership records that show you're directing campaigns at a strategic level, not executing production tasks.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Creative Marketing Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, but only if the position requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as marketing, communications, or business. If the job description accepts any degree or lists the degree as preferred rather than required, USCIS may issue an RFE. Employers should write job postings that specify the degree requirement clearly to avoid this problem.
Which visa types are realistic for Creative Marketing Managers seeking sponsorship?
H-1B is the primary path for most nationalities. Australian citizens can apply for the E-3 visa, which has a separate annual cap of 10,500, has never been exhausted, and doesn't require a lottery. Chilean and Singaporean nationals may qualify for the H-1B1 visa. TN visa is not available for marketing managers since the occupation isn't on the USMCA profession list.
How do I find Creative Marketing Manager jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified sponsorship history for creative and marketing roles, so you can focus your search on companies already set up to hire international candidates rather than cold-applying and asking about sponsorship later in the process.
Can a Creative Marketing Manager use F-1 OPT or STEM OPT while looking for sponsored roles?
OPT lets you work for up to 12 months after graduation without employer sponsorship, as long as the role relates to your field of study. Marketing, communications, and business degrees generally support creative marketing work. STEM OPT doesn't apply here since marketing isn't a STEM-designated CIP code, so your window is 12 months unless you transition to H-1B sponsorship.
What degree does a Creative Marketing Manager need to get H-1B sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or business with a marketing concentration is the standard USCIS expects. Degrees in fine arts or graphic design may face scrutiny unless you can show the curriculum included marketing strategy coursework. Foreign degrees are accepted if they're evaluated as equivalent to a U.S. four-year bachelor's by a recognized credential evaluation service.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Creative Marketing Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.