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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 on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and was named 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 initiatives. This is a senior individual contributor role with company-wide design scope and influence across growth strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning design work for funnel optimization, new user experience (NUX), and personalization for 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
The role is based in Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA, with an expectation 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 for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of professional design experience, including 4+ years on Growth teams or in ecommerce and merchandising, where your work directly drove gains in conversion, basket price, and product adoption
- Portfolio showcasing high-quality work with direct impact on project success
- Excellence on onboarding and merchandising surfaces; comfort with iterative experimentation (A/B testing) and knowing when to advocate for broader strategic approaches
- Ability to uncover insights firsthand; comfortable identifying and conducting UX research and testing independently; innately curious and problem-focused
- Ability to excel in complexity and fast-paced environments, balancing craft, critical thinking, and business needs to deliver holistic user experiences
- Focus on psychology and behavioral patterns; experience with behavioral science is a plus
- Ability to connect work to bigger picture; can describe high-level team goals and align projects accordingly; skilled at using design explorations, research, documentation, and presentations to rally teams and communicate with leadership
- Deep understanding of design best practices and contemporary design patterns
- A-player mindset with strong bias for action: raises the bar, moves with urgency, stays resilient through ambiguity, takes ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
- Nice to have: Experience with B2B companies focusing on SMBs
