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 particular focus on drug and occupational health testing. The role partners closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to create intuitive workflows in complex, high-trust domains, balancing candidate ease, employer clarity, and operational realities. It is a hands-on, high-ownership position spanning discovery, design, launch, and iteration. The designer will simplify complex verification workflows and design for trust, transparency, accessibility, and error prevention in a sensitive, regulated domain. They will use research, stakeholder input, and product data to shape and validate solutions; create interaction and visual designs for responsive web or platform surfaces; and provide clear specifications and assets for engineering. The role also includes facilitating alignment, contributing to design systems and standards, and collaborating with partners across the company to ensure solutions work in real-world settings.
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 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 execute lightweight research, including interviews, usability testing, and concept validation, and to partner effectively with researchers when available.
- Attention to interaction patterns, content clarity, information hierarchy, and accessibility best practices.
- An action-oriented mindset, resilience through ambiguity, urgency, ownership, and commitment to delivering 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 for 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 verification requests, document collection, consent and authorization, appointment scheduling, status visibility, and exception handling into clear user-friendly experiences.
- Use AI-assisted design and development tools to prototype and validate ideas and, when appropriate, implement lightweight UI changes in code.
- Design for trust and clarity in a sensitive, regulated domain, emphasizing transparency, error prevention, accessibility, and confidence-building UI patterns.
- Combine qualitative research, stakeholder input, and product data to propose, test, and refine solutions.
- Create interaction and visual design for responsive web and/or platform surfaces, with clear specifications and assets for engineering.
- Facilitate alignment through workshops, design reviews, and storytelling to help teams move from ambiguity to decisions.
- Collaborate with Customer Success, Sales, Compliance/Legal, Data, and Operations to ensure designs work in real-world settings.
- 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 $25K 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
