Kimkim was created by experienced travel entrepreneurs. Our mission is to help independent travelers have unforgettable travel experiences by creating custom trips that perfectly match the unique requirements and desires of each traveler. We do this by combining cutting-edge technology with a global network of travel specialists. This combination of humans and technology creates magical experiences that can’t be achieved through technology alone.
We have helped tens of thousands of couples, families, groups, and individuals plan trips of a lifetime to over 90 destinations. Whether you and your loved ones want to dive into Italy's rich culinary culture, explore Costa Rica's jungles, or challenge yourself with a trek in the Himalayas, we can help turn your dream into the perfect trip.
Fullstack Rails Engineer (A few roles, Mid - Senior Level)
Senior Accounting Manager
Travel Sales Specialist
Fullstack Rails Engineer (A few roles, Mid - Senior Level)
We are looking for driven, curious, self-motivated engineers to join us and grow with us. You’ll join our growing team with many opportunities to design new product features, improve code structure and best practices, strengthen development processes, and take on additional ownership and responsibilities.
We are hiring for a few roles to build up the engineering team and we are looking for a variety of experience levels from Mid to Senior levels.
You should expect to work on all layers of the system, from designing the DB structure, business logic, views, UI, interactions, analytics, AB Tests, internal dashboards & tools, and more. This is a great opportunity to learn more about each of these areas.
We are a small distributed company looking for people who are comfortable balancing several responsibilities.
Our product and engineering team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and meet in San Francisco 2 times a week for more collaborative discussions and working the other days remotely. You're welcome to work in-office more than that if you like.
About kimkim
Kimkim helps travelers have unforgettable authentic travel experiences. We do this by connecting independent travelers with local specialists who design personalized itineraries including activities, accommodations, and transportation.
We partner with passionate travel specialists in 90+ destinations around the world who work with top local activity operators, guides, and accommodations. All trips are 100% climate neutral.
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We have a long, focused product roadmap to improve our travel planning tools for both our specialists and travelers.
The kimkim team is currently based in a few hubs:
- Our headquarters is in Boulder with our CEO and head of Destination Development and Customer support teams.
- The Product and Engineering teams are based in the San Francisco Bay Area
- The Destination Development Team is based in our Amsterdam office.
About the Engineering & Product Team
Kimkim is a marketplace, and the product and engineering teams are building products to help our specialists, travelers, and our internal support team—in essence, 3 distinct products to drive the growth of the overall marketplace.
For example:
- For our specialists: we are building tools to quickly create beautiful itineraries and price them effectively. We build tools to help our specialists manage many concurrent ongoing traveler trips and tools to help prioritize their time for the most likely trips to book.
- For our travelers: we want to create a fun and engaging onboarding experience, where travelers can tell us what they are looking for on their trip. This also helps us match them to the best available specialist. We are also experimenting with ways to increase brand loyalty as well as creating “6-star experiences” during the trip.
- For our internal team: we want to build tools and metrics to help our team grow our specialist network in a “quality guaranteed” way. We identify best practices and try to train and encourage the rest of the partner network to adopt them. We want to be able to share metrics that help pinpoint specific areas for growth and improvement for each partner company.
As an early member of our team, you will have the opportunity to shape these three distinct products.
We work in a flexible way distributed across multiple time zones, with most communication asynchronous. Daily communication is over Slack and Zoom, and we rely on shared Google Docs, Jira, Figma, and Loom videos to communicate asynchronously.
No specs are 100% final. We encourage and expect everyone on the team to share their perspectives and feel comfortable sharing different viewpoints to help us understand the tradeoffs between certain implementation decisions/designs from a technical perspective.
We break projects into smaller chunks, with each typically taking 0-3 days from start to launch. We have no scheduled releases and push code several times a week or day as projects are ready. We try to design and code for flexibility, as we typically make changes once we see things live and in use.
We are looking for people who communicate clearly, set good expectations, and deliver consistently.
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About the Full-stack Position
This is a growth-focused role: We are looking for people who are looking to grow in their skills and responsibilities to become a leader on the team as we continue to hire more engineers. We are looking for people who are comfortable with changing product roadmaps as we want to stay flexible and adapt to new challenges and opportunities.
Tech Stack, Tools, Key Services
Heroku • Rails • Postgres • Bootstrap • Redis • AWS (RDS, S3, CloudFront)
SendGrid • Mapbox • Stripe • Twilio
Jira • Bitbucket • Figma • Rollbar • Looker • Google Analytics
Have other suggestions, improvements? Great, let us know!
Growth Goals & Expectations
As a small but lean startup, we have many opportunities to take on ownership and responsibility. As travel comes back in 2022 we expect to re-grow quickly and sustainably.
Hiring Process & Expectations
- Interested? Email us at [email protected] with your resume (or apply on Angel.co) and some information about why you think you are a great fit for kimkim and this role.
- Interviews will include technical discussions as well as meeting with others on the team, such as the Head of Product and CEO/Founder.
- Technical Interview
- We want the process to reflect daily work as closely as we can.
- We will share background info on a mock project before the interview so that you can familiarize yourself with the scope, requirements, and think about how you would approach the project.
- During the interview, you should be able to react to new requirements that come in scope and be comfortable discussing different solutions and tradeoffs.
- You'll be asked to write code in some form in a shared editor. But, we don't get caught up in semantics. It's great if you have Rails experience. If not, code in whatever language you think makes the most sense for your skills and the situation. Make up a language as long as it’s not too abstract. We are more interested in the process and your approach.
While we do not require previous experience in any particular language, strong candidates will have some experience in full-stack development (DB to UI), ideally on some web-based, consumer-facing product.
We are looking for people with a well-rounded skill set who are looking to learn and help us grow the team and the company.
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Senior Accounting Manager
We are looking for a self-motivated and ambitious Senior Accounting Manager to be responsible for all aspects of the company's financial and accounting operations.
About kimkim
Kimkim is a fast-growing, profitable technology company that helps travelers have unforgettable authentic travel experiences. We do this by connecting independent travelers with local specialists who design personalized itineraries, including activities, accommodations, and transportation.
We partner with passionate travel specialists in 90+ destinations worldwide who work with top local activity operators, guides, and accommodations. A portion of every kimkim trip goes toward removing carbon from the atmosphere.
The kimkim team is currently based in a few hubs: Boulder, Colorado (headquarters), San Francisco, CA, and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
About the Role
As our Senior Accounting Manager, you will be the first in-house hire in the finance and accounting team and will be responsible for all aspects of the company's financial and accounting operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and financial reporting. You will also be working closely with an outsourced accounting team and internal teams to implement the right financial processes.
Additionally, you will work closely with the executive team to provide financial analysis and modeling for key business decisions. This will include preparing presentations and reports to help the team understand the company's financial performance and identify areas for improvement.
As an ideal candidate, you will be curious, and analytical, with a natural drive to exceed expectations, resonating with kimkim’s core principles. Your organizational, communication and team collaboration skills are second to none, you enjoy helping to implement solutions that push operational efficiencies to the next level.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the month-end close process by working closely with internal teams and any outsourced accounting support
- Work cross-functionally to develop, implement and manage key metrics & analytics reporting
- Assist in the preparation and maintenance of the financial and cash management model, including the preparation of monthly budget vs actual analyses
- Regularly assist in Board meeting preparation and reporting
- Manage payments and accounts payable to our specialist partners and contractors to ensure a high degree of accuracy & timeliness
- Work to ensure accurate payroll for our full time, part time and variable hours teams
- Establish and maintain effective working relations with all functions
- Attends and actively participates in staff meetings
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
- CPA certification preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience in accounting, with experience in a start-up environment preferred
- Strong knowledge of GAAP and relevant laws and regulations.
- Keen analytic, organization and problem-solving skills which allows for strategic data interpretation versus. simple reporting
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
If you are a highly organized and detail-oriented professional with a passion for accounting and finance, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity at kimkim.com.
Travel Sales Specialist
As a kimkim Sales Specialist, you will assist travelers from initial inquiries to booking. Your goal is to maximize your conversion rate and sales volume through great communication and sales skills, and make sure you understand each traveler's unique requirements and preferences. Based on your destination knowledge, your sales chops, and Kimkim's advanced suite of AI tools, you will be empowered to be a “superhuman" travel specialist who delights travelers and ensures they will have 6-star travel experiences.
We are always looking for specialists for many destinations!
Key Responsibilities
- Maximize conversion and sales volume
- Understand detailed trip requirements to ensure a highly positive experience for kimkim travelers throughout the planning and booking process
- Communicating with travelers through kimkim chat and over the phone about:
- Sharing destination insights
- General travel tips
- Accommodations and activities kimkim offers
- How to use kimkim
- Crafting a trip plan that meets the traveler’s needs and preferences
- Preparation for their trip departure
- Handle a steady stream of new trip inquiries and stay on top of ongoing trip planning chats with assistance from kimkim’s AI.
- Verifying that the components of each itinerary are up-to-date and accurate
About You
You are a great travel sales professional with a proven track record of exceeding targets. You excel at helping consumers make sense of complex travel products from mid-range boutique to luxury trips. You are excited about working in a performance-oriented environment where you achieve and exceed your goals, and get compensated accordingly. You are passionate about travel, have visited your focus destination at least once, and ideally, have visited many countries.
Your resume and background show many of the following elements:
- A passion for travel planning and a proven track record in a travel sales role
- In-depth destination knowledge
- Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Highly organized and able to prioritize and track multiple projects at once
- Strong customer service skills and a passion for helping others
- Demonstrated ability to understand customer needs
- Excited to build strong relationships with travelers and colleagues
- An entrepreneurial mindset and an eagerness to learn, experiment, and continuously strive to improve
- Highly adaptable and able to operate effectively in a rapidly changing startup environment
- Able to work independently, with support from a global team
- Eager to take on new projects and more responsibility
Compensation & Benefits
- $56,000 + commission, OTE of $80,000
- Flexible PTO and federal holidays off
- 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k)
- Optional remote work on Mondays and Fridays
- Macbook Pro and Cell Phone
- Company-sponsored happy hours, lunches, and team-building events
- Casual, fun office environment
- International team committed to our values
- Ample growth and professional development opportunities
- Opportunities for travel credit/team travel
Position Details
This position is preferably based out of kimkim's Boulder, Colorado office, but we are open to other remote locations in the US. The Boulder team works in-office Tuesday - Thursday, and has the option to work remotely or in office on Mondays and Fridays.
While your working hours are somewhat flexible, the goals and pace of the work will require consistent availability during business hours.
To apply for this position, please email [email protected] with your resume, along with a quick explanation of why you feel this role is the right fit for you, along with the destination you're interested in.