Lead Brand Designer, Checkr
Web
$167-196k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Automated background checks
Be an early applicant
Automated background checks
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$167-196k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of in-house or agency experience on tech or B2B brands
- An outstanding portfolio demonstrating mastery of typography, layout, storytelling, and art direction
- Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, plus experience using AI-assisted tools to accelerate production
- Deep knowledge of information architecture, usability, accessibility, and UI/UX best practices
- A systems-minded approach to building templates and reusable assets other teams can rely on
- Experience developing brand standards and directing contractor or freelance creative work
- A strong point of view and high craft standards, with the confidence to present and defend your work to senior leadership
- Track record managing multiple concurrent projects in fast-moving, iterative environments where the brief isn't always perfect
- 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
Desirable
- Front-end fluency (HTML/CSS), enough to prototype or QA your own work in-browser
- Illustration, photography, or art direction experience
- Experience in HR tech, trust and safety, or identity verification products
- Experience mentoring or giving creative direction to other designers
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Lead Brand Designer, Web, to shape how people experience the Checkr brand across all marketing surfaces. You'll partner closely with Marketing and Revenue, own our web brand standards, and bring a strong point of view on customer needs and business outcomes to every design decision
- Design brand-forward web experiences that are polished, on-brand, and grounded in customer and business outcomes, across all marketing surfaces
- Own and evolve brand standards, guidelines, and design systems for web
- Scope design initiatives and prioritize work across multiple concurrent projects and timelines
- Partner cross-functionally with Marketing and Revenue to maintain brand consistency across all web touchpoints
- Provide creative direction and feedback to other designers on web/brand projects
- Present and advocate for design decisions clearly and persuasively, from peers to senior leadership
- Identify, hypothesize, and run ongoing user testing to evolve the web experience
- Ground design decisions in a deep understanding of customer personas and the end-to-end user experience
Our take
Checkr addresses the unpleasant and time consuming process of background checks so that companies using on-demand employees can make safer, more informed hiring decisions in less time. Background checks are a critical part of the hiring process, and CEO Daniel Yannisse noticed that they were painfully slow, resulting in loss of work for candidates and productivity downturns for employers.
Before Checkr entered the market in 2014 with its innovative AI technology and a solid $50m in venture capital funding, companies were waiting upwards of two weeks for their checks. Checkr substantially reduces this time frame and has grown to receive a $5 billion valuation.
Checkr has accelerated growth by making several highly advantageous acquisitions of competitor companies, GoodHire and Inflection. As the world of work embraces diversity and inclusion, the company announced an end-to-end service for candidates wishing to expunge their criminal records, furthering the company’s ‘fair chance’ mission and clearing 1000s of candidates for free since 2021. New products launched at the end of 2023 include Checkr Pay (providing access to payment right after a shift) and Checkr Onboard (unified onboarding processes), exemplifying how Checkr is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, flexible, and mobile-first workforce.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Sep 2019
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $551.8m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Stock optoins
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
- Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
- A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
- Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
- Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
- Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jonathan Perichon
(Co-Founder)After an MSc in Computer Science, Jonathan worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and deliv for a combined year and a half. He co-founded Checkr in May 2014, serving as CTO since.
Daniel Yanisse
(Co-Founder & CEO)Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and Deliv before co-founding Checkr.
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