About Checkr Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. And we believe everyone should have a fair chance to work. That's why 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 thousands of companies like Uber, Instacart, Domino's, Compass Group, and Adecco to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr has been recognized as one of and is a Y Combinator 2023 .

As the Senior Director of Data at Checkr, you will be responsible for both the centralized data functions for all of Checkr (data infrastructure and governance) as well as the Product Analytics and Data Science function, which is the largest departmental data team at Checkr. In addition, you will interface with data organizations in other departments, most frequently the RevOps, CorpEng/BI teams, and finance team. You will own both internal and customer-facing data use cases, and be responsible for driving the overall data strategy at Checkr. What you’ll do Guide the technical vision and strategy for an accurate, scalable, usable, and reliable data platform and infrastructure Manage through a hub and spoke data team organization model, creating strong partnerships with RevOps, BI, finance teams, and more Create governing principles for data access, accuracy, freshness, etc for all data organizations at Checkr to follow Manage the Data Engineering, Product Analytics, and Data Science functions Manage our most senior individual contributors directly Provide actionable business insights to product and other cross functional leaders Build a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belong Partner with product leadership to influence business strategy through data-driven decision making Bring customer-centricity to your entire data engineering and analytics team Hire, retain, and scale a world-class data team What you bring Demonstrated success in building and leading vision, strategy, and execution of platform engineering initiatives Experience with driving successful platform adoption programs, with the ability to demonstrate the business impact of such initiatives Data-driven mindset: you know that everything built must be measured to understand its impact on the business and drive your teams to build with that in mind Customer centricity: you understand that customer behavior and sentiment must be well understood to effectively build products for them; this can be understood both through data as well as qualitative discussions with customers Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group both internally and externally Willingness to lead in a hands-on, high-performance environment Organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented High degree of humility and accountability Experience leading, growing, and retaining high-performance engineering managers and individual contributors 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 . The base salary range for this role is $325,533 - $382,980 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 .