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Salary: USD 197,000 - 274,000 / annual
Checkr is a data platform powering safe and fair decisions through AI verification. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for background checks and verification across hiring, housing, rideshare, childcare, and dating. Major customers include Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Pennymac, and Anthropic. Checkr is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Reporting to Checkr's VP of Marketing, the Creative Director, Head of Brand will set the creative vision for how Checkr shows up in the world while owning and evolving the company's newly refreshed brand identity.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting and leading creative vision, translating brand strategy into distinctive ideas, campaigns, and experiences that build recognition and strengthen the brand
- Owning and evolving Checkr's brand identity system—visual language, voice, and design standards—while continuing to push the brand creatively as the company scales
- Leading and inspiring the Brand Studio team, raising the creative bar through strong direction, mentorship, and high standards of craft, while exploring new ways of working including AI tools used additively to extend craft
- Leading development of high-impact brand campaigns and creative platforms from concept through execution across channels and formats
- Building brand into an operating system with standards, briefs, review cycles, and clear decision rights, paired with AI-powered self-serve tools that empower other teams
- Defining and tracking brand health metrics (awareness, sentiment, consistency) to measure impact beyond individual campaigns
- Owning creative execution and exercising final judgment on high-visibility brand moments—campaigns, product launches, executive communications—ensuring strategic soundness, creative distinctiveness, and high craft execution
- Advising Checkr's executives on brand positioning and narrative, partnering with Marketing leadership to align brand strategy with go-to-market priorities
The role is hybrid, with expectations to work from the office 3+ days per week. Hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. In-office perks include lunch five times weekly, commuter stipend, and snacks/beverages. A relocation stipend may be available.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10+ years of experience in creative and brand leadership, including building or significantly scaling a brand function (not just maintaining one)
- Strong portfolio of brand-building work demonstrating exceptional creative thinking, conceptual ability, and craft across campaigns, channels, and experiences
- Proven track record of developing distinctive creative ideas and translating brand strategy into work that earns attention and builds brand recognition
- Exceptional creative taste and judgment, with ability to recognize great work, articulate what makes it great, and help teams improve
- Demonstrated use of AI tools in real, shipped brand work, with clear point of view on where automation belongs and where human judgment and craft are non-negotiable
- Proven judgment shaping brand and narrative at company level, with experience advising executives on positioning
- Rigorous measurement instincts—defines and owns brand health metrics like awareness and sentiment as a discipline alongside campaign performance
- Strong people leadership experience with track record of building, inspiring, and developing high-performing creative teams
- Comfort operating with high autonomy in fast-moving environment
- A-player mindset with strong bias for action: raises the bar, moves with urgency, stays resilient through ambiguity, takes ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
