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Salary: USD 143,000 - 199,000 / annual
Checkr is a data platform powering safe and fair decisions through AI verification. The company serves over 140,000 customers including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Anthropic, and is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and as a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
You will own design for Checkr's Verifications product suite—spanning employment, education, criminal record, and driving record verifications, with emphasis on drug and occupational health testing. This is a hands-on role with high ownership: you'll drive discovery through execution, bring strong craft, and help teams make great decisions through clear thinking and excellent communication.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own end-to-end design for key Verifications product areas across candidate, employer, and internal operational experiences, from discovery through launch and iteration
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define problems, shape roadmaps, and deliver solutions that align user needs with business outcomes
- Simplify complex workflows (verification requests, document collection, consent/authorization, appointment scheduling, status visibility, exception handling) into clear, user-friendly experiences
- Use AI-assisted design and development tools to rapidly prototype, validate, and implement lightweight UI changes to improve iteration speed
- Design for trust and clarity in a sensitive, regulated domain—prioritizing transparency, error prevention, accessibility, and confidence-building UI patterns
- Combine qualitative research, stakeholder input, and product data to propose, test, and refine solutions
- Create thoughtful interaction and visual design across responsive web and/or platform surfaces, producing clear specs and assets for engineering
- Facilitate alignment through workshops, design reviews, and strong storytelling
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Customer Success, Sales, Compliance/Legal, Data, and Operations to ensure designs work in the real world
- Contribute to design systems and standards to improve consistency and quality across Checkr
Checkr operates hub locations in Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days per week. In-office perks include lunch five times weekly, commuter stipend, and snacks/beverages. A relocation stipend may be available.
Requirements:
- 5–8+ years of product design experience (or equivalent) with a strong track record of shipping high-quality work
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end thinking: problem framing, exploration, rationale, collaboration, iteration, and measurable impact
- Comfort working in complex domains where edge cases matter; ability to distill complexity into simple, usable flows
- Strong product instincts—balancing user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and timeline realities
- Experience in collaborative, cross-functional environments, influencing decisions through clarity rather than authority
- Ability to independently plan and execute lightweight research (interviews, usability testing, concept validation) and partner effectively with researchers when available
- Attention to detail: interaction patterns, content clarity, information hierarchy, and accessibility best practices
- A-player mindset with strong bias for action: raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
Nice to have:
- Experience in background screening, HR tech, healthcare, identity, compliance-heavy, or other high-trust regulated spaces
- Experience designing B2B / B2B2C products, especially workflows used by operations teams or external partners
- Familiarity with design systems, documentation, and scalable component thinking
- Experience designing for secure data, consent, and privacy-forward user experiences
