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Salary: USD 137,000 - 161,000 / annual
Checkr is a data platform powering safe and fair decisions through AI verification. The company serves over 140,000 companies and millions of users across hiring, housing, transportation, childcare, and dating verticals. Major customers include Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Anthropic. Checkr is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
As a Solutions Engineer, you will be a strategic partner to the Sales and Implementation teams, working with complex prospects to design and develop unique solutions that enhance trust and safety in hiring. This is a consultative pre-sales role focused on solving hard problems and delivering measurable business impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the technical sale by partnering closely with Sales through the entire deal cycle, from discovery to contract signature
- Building trust with executives and operators by tailoring messaging to different audiences and creating lasting relationships
- Designing and delivering world-class product demos, POCs, solution architectures, and proposals tailored to prospect needs
- Establishing yourself as an expert on safe hiring practices, compliance, and industry best practices
- Translating customer feedback into actionable insights for the R&D roadmap
- Identifying market trends across verticals to keep Checkr ahead of competition
- Collaborating with Marketing on case studies, use cases, and events
You bring 2–5 years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Technical Sales, Customer Success, or related SaaS roles. You have hands-on experience with the full technical sales cycle, strong discovery and value-based selling skills, and the ability to craft compelling demo narratives. Technical comfort with RESTful APIs (or willingness to learn) is expected. You work effectively across Sales, Product, and Marketing teams, manage multiple priorities in fast-moving environments, and communicate exceptionally well in writing and verbally. You're willing to travel up to 30% and embody an A-player mindset with bias for action, urgency, resilience, and ownership.
