Senior Director, Product Growth

About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.

We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

In this role as Senior Director of Product Growth, you will own our fastest-growing product channels: self-serve and partnerships. Our self-service experiences are targeted at SMB customers to sign-up and purchase from Checkr with limited human assistance, while our partnerships channel targets a similar customer segment, but through strategic embedded integrations into the top ATS and HRIS SaaS vendors. You’ll define and execute the strategy for each of these respective areas. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, coach, and inspire a team to set and meet company objectives and bring new products and features to market.

What you’ll do:

• Identify new market opportunities to drive innovation and business growth
• Define strategy, create the roadmap, and drive execution across your product portfolio
• Define a growth plan, partner across Product and cross-functionally to deliver on the growth plan, and continue to optimize to increase customer LTV
• Launch products at scale with an eye for data, legal, and technical requirements
• Serve as a bridge between product and customer-facing functions to drive GTM readiness and successful long-term product adoption for your product portfolio
• Hire, retain, and scale a world-class Product Management team
• Be a product expert and domain evangelist through participation in thought leadership pieces, public presentations, and meetings with customers and partners

What you bring:

• Demonstrated success in building and leading vision, strategy, and execution of software products
• Experience in growth product management including superb UX skills and experience in pricing and packaging products
• Experience defining and scaling modern products (API, self-service, UX first products)
• Strong analytical mindset
• Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group both internally and externally
• Organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented
• High degree of humility and accountability
• Willingness to lead in a hands-on, high-performance environment
• Experience leading, growing, and retaining high-performance product managers

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

Pay Transparency Disclosure

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.

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)

$320,000—$376,000 USD

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO)

$270,000—$318,000 USD

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. Starting January 2026, hub-based employees will be expected to work from the office 3 days per week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.