Senior Product Designer, Verifications
About The Position
Checkr is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape end-to-end experiences for its Verifications products, including employment, education, criminal record, and driving record verifications, with a key focus on drug and occupational health testing. The role partners closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to create intuitive workflows in complex, high-trust domains while balancing candidate ease, employer clarity, and operational realities. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership, spanning discovery through execution and iteration. The designer will bring strong craft, clear thinking, and effective communication to help teams make decisions and deliver quality solutions. The position designs for responsive web and/or platform surfaces and contributes to design systems and standards.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of product design experience or equivalent, with a strong track record of shipping high-quality work.
- A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking, including problem framing, exploration, rationale, collaboration, iteration, and measurable impact.
- Ability to work in complex domains where edge cases matter and distill complexity into simple, usable flows.
- Strong product instincts and ability to balance user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and timeline realities.
- Experience in collaborative, cross-functional environments and ability to influence decisions through clarity rather than authority.
- Ability to independently plan and conduct lightweight research, such as interviews, usability testing, and concept validation, and partner effectively with researchers when available.
- Attention to interaction patterns, content clarity, information hierarchy, and accessibility best practices.
- A bias for action, ownership, resilience through ambiguity, urgency, and commitment to meaningful outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in background screening, HR tech, healthcare, identity, compliance-heavy, or other high-trust regulated spaces.
- Experience designing B2B or B2B2C products, especially workflows used by operations teams or external partners.
- Familiarity with design systems, documentation, and scalable component thinking.
- Experience designing secure-data, consent, and privacy-forward user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own design for key Verifications product areas, including drug and occupational health testing, across candidate, employer, and applicable internal operational experiences from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define problems, shape roadmaps, and deliver solutions aligned with user needs and business outcomes.
- Simplify complex workflows such as verification requests, document collection, consent and authorization, appointment scheduling, status visibility, and exception handling.
- Use AI-assisted design and development tools to prototype, validate, and, where appropriate, implement lightweight UI changes in code.
- Design transparent, accessible, error-resistant experiences that build confidence in a sensitive, regulated domain.
- Combine qualitative research, stakeholder input, and product data to propose, test, and refine solutions.
- Create interaction and visual designs for responsive web and/or platform surfaces, including clear specifications and assets for engineering.
- Facilitate alignment through workshops, design reviews, and storytelling to help teams resolve ambiguity and make decisions.
- Collaborate with Customer Success, Sales, Compliance/Legal, Data, and Operations to ensure designs work in real-world contexts.
- Contribute to design systems and standards to improve consistency, speed, and quality across Checkr.
Benefits
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation
- Opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Lunch provided five times a week at hub offices
- Commuter stipend
- Snacks and beverages at hub offices
- Relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
