Senior Product Designer, Truework

About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Checkrs innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100000 customers including Amazon DoorDash Kia Kimpton McDonalds and Netflix.

Were a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes CloudList and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the Role

Were looking for a Senior Product Designer to join Truework and help shape the end-to-end experiences that power income verification for mortgages and other lending use cases. Youll partner closely with Product Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to design intuitive workflows for complex high-trust domainsbalancing borrower ease lender clarity and operational realities.

This is a hands-on product design role with high ownership: youll drive discovery through execution bring strong craft and help the team make great decisions through clear thinking and excellent communication.

What youll do

• Own design for key Truework product areas across borrower lender and internal operational experiences (as applicable) from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define problems shape roadmaps and deliver high-quality solutions that align user needs with business outcomes.
• Simplify complex workflows (verification requests document collection consent/authorization status visibility exception handling) into clear user-friendly experiences.
• Use AI-assisted design and development tools to rapidly prototype validate andwhen appropriateimplement lightweight UI changes in code to improve iteration speed and overall product quality.
• Design for trust and clarity in a sensitive financial domainprioritizing transparency error prevention accessibility and confidence-building UI patterns.
• Translate insights into outcomes by combining qualitative research stakeholder input and product data to propose test and refine solutions.
• Create thoughtful interaction and visual design across responsive web and/or platform surfaces producing clear specs and assets for engineering.
• Facilitate alignment with workshops design reviews and strong storytellinghelping teams move from ambiguity to decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with partners such as Customer Success Sales Compliance/Legal Data and Operations to ensure designs work in the real world.
• Contribute to design systems and standards to improve consistency speed and quality across Truework.

What you bring

• You have 58 years of product design experience (or equivalent) with a strong track record of shipping high-quality work.
• Your portfolio demonstrates end-to-end thinking: problem framing exploration rationale collaboration iteration and measurable impact.
• Youre comfortable working in complex domains where edge cases matter and you can distill that complexity into simple usable flows.
• You have strong product instinctsyou know how to balance user needs business goals technical constraints and timeline realities.
• Youre experienced in collaborative cross-functional environments influencing decisions through clarity rather than authority.
• You can independently plan and execute lightweight research (interviews usability testing concept validation) and partner effectively with researchers when available.
• You sweat the details: interaction patterns content clarity information hierarchy and accessibility best practices.
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar move with urgency stay resilient through ambiguity and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech lending mortgage identity compliance-heavy or other high-trust regulated spaces.
• Experience designing B2B / 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.

What youll get

At Checkr we believe an in office work environment strengthens collaboration drives innovation and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver CO San Francisco CA Nashville TN and Santiago Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a -office perks are provided such as lunch five times a week a commuter stipend and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.

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