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Salary: USD 178,000 - 247,000 / annual
Checkr is a data platform powering safe and fair decisions through AI verification. The company serves over 140,000 companies and millions of people across job screening, housing, transportation, childcare, and dating use cases. 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.
You will join the Growth team as a Staff Product Designer, embedding directly with the team to define roadmap and vision while leading design execution. This is a product-led growth role focused on self-serve customer acquisition and conversion.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning design work for funnel optimization, new user experience (NUX), and personalization in guided flows
- Leveraging AI to create personalized customer experiences
- Designing growth systems, experiments, and new product features by translating quantitative and qualitative insights into testable ideas
- Championing designs that deliver seamless, easy, and delightful experiences for SMB users
- Facilitating workshops to develop winning ideas
- Distilling complex information into simple and beautiful user experiences from brainstorming through high-fidelity delivery
- Building strong relationships with interdisciplinary teams to conceptualize, build, and ship user-friendly, business-driven products
- Participating in UX research independently and with researchers, applying insights to designs and advocating for users
- Being a strong voice in sharing ideas, managing stakeholder feedback, challenging assumptions, and bringing best practices to the team
Checkr expects in-office work 3+ days per week from hub locations (Denver, San Francisco, Nashville, or Santiago). In-office perks include lunch five times weekly, commuter stipend, snacks, and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of professional design experience
- 4+ years on Growth teams or in ecommerce and merchandising, with demonstrated impact on conversion, basket price, and product adoption
- Proven excellence on onboarding and merchandising surfaces
- Comfort with iterative experimentation (A/B testing) and ability to advocate for broader strategic approaches
- Strong ability to uncover insights firsthand and conduct UX research and testing independently
- Innate curiosity and problem-solving orientation
- Ability to excel in complexity and fast-paced environments, balancing craft, critical thinking, and business needs
- Focus on psychology and human behavior; experience with behavioral science is a plus
- Ability to connect work to bigger picture goals and align projects accordingly
- Skill in using design explorations, research, documentation, and presentations to rally teams and communicate with leadership
- Deep understanding of design best practices and contemporary design patterns
- Nice to have: Experience with B2B companies focusing on SMBs
- A-player mindset with strong bias for action, raising the bar, moving with urgency, staying resilient through ambiguity, and taking ownership
- Portfolio showcasing high-quality work directly impacting project success
