Staff Product Manager

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 is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company .

About the team/role

In this role as a Staff Product Manager, Core Products, you will deliver products and capabilities to significantly enhance the data quality, coverage & API capabilities for Checkr’s National Criminal (NatCrim) Database. A National Criminal search is a fundamental step in Checkr’s background checks. Our NatCrim Database offers key people risk information and covers 90%+ of the United States population, with 750+ million records, 6,000+ individual criminal sources, 2,400+ counties, and 4,000+ courts. 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.

What you’ll do

• Drive the product roadmap and strategy for NatCrim - Database and the Search APIs


• Use data and insights to define relevant metrics and goals for NatCrim


• Drive new product capabilities to have a larger NatCrim database with fresher & more accurate data over an increased coverage of sources


• Define & maintain prioritization of current data sources within NatCrim as well as new data sources to be added within NatCrim


• Drive technology improvements that result in modernizing the search APIs to increase its reliability


• Define the NatCrim strategy and ways of working for non-core use cases like Checkr Trust and Consumer reporting agency customers


• Collaborate with a large engineering team of over 20


• Build deep understanding and empathy for external and internal users of Checkr


• Lead meetings with product marketing, and technology partners to deeply understand, document, analyze and synthesize customer needs into product priorities, roadmap plans, and detailed specifications


• Build deep understanding and empathy for external and internal users of Checkr


• Drive cross-functional decisions & alignment. Effectively communicate across all departments in the company

What you bring

• 7+ years as a PM, with recent experience working on a data or platform product


• Experience in understanding the data, legal, and technical nuances of supporting complex products


• Strong technical background to enable you to contribute meaningful features and seamless integration


• Attention to detail is a must. You have an instinct for good product design


• An ability to manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way


• Ability to be fly-high and fly-low in a high performance environment


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills


• Flexibility to travel to Santiago, Chile where a significant portion of the engineering team is located

What you’ll get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment


• Learning and development allowance


• Competitive 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 $199,254 to $234,416 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 .