Senior Staff Product Manager, Core Products

About Checkr
Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. 

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 Best Places to Work in the US and is a Y Combinator 2023 Breakthrough Company.

About the team/role

In this role as a Senior Staff Product Manager, Core Products, you will deliver products and capabilities for Checkr’s core background check products, growing the quality, speed, scale, and user experience across criminal background check products.  You will play a pivotal role in differentiating Checkr’s core products and delighting candidates & customers as well as partnering closely with internal teams on fulfillment and operations.

Roles and responsibilities include creating the strategy & roadmap for key areas of the core product, leading development of new product features, analyzing data and performing user research, and managing a high-performing cross-functional team that includes engineering, data, design, marketing, legal, and others.

What you’ll do

• Build deep understanding and empathy for external and internal users of Checkr
• Use data and insight to drive new product capabilities
• Identify opportunities and drive technology improvements that result in more accurate and reliable data for customers
• Drive the product roadmap and strategy for a broad product surface area within our core product
• Collaborate with engineering and product design and product marketing to ship new, impactful features
• Lead meetings with sales, product marketing, customer success, business development, customers and technology partners to deeply understand, document, analyze and synthesize customer needs into product priorities, roadmap plans, and detailed specifications.
• Drive cross-functional decisions & alignment. Effectively communicate across all departments in the company

What you bring

• 8+ years as a PM, with recent experience working on a SAAS, data or platform product 
• Experience working on products at a global scale, and understanding the data, legal, and technical nuances of supporting complex products
• Strong technical background to enable you to contribute meaningful features and seamless integration
• Excellent user experience skills and attention to detail. You have an instinct for good product design and an understanding of usability best practices
• An ability to manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way
• Excellent commercial skills and attention to detail. You have an instinct for good product & business needs and an understanding of metrics best practices
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to be fly-high and fly-low in a high performance environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What you’ll get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. 

One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.

The base salary range for this role is $236,437 to $278,161 in San Francisco, CA.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.   

Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.