Staff Product Designer, Growth

About the role

This role shapes product experiences that help hiring teams screen talent faster and fairer. The work spans discovery, concept development, and execution in service of a more inclusive workforce. You own the end-to-end design of growth initiatives that expand access to opportunity for candidates and customers. This involves defining problems, exploring concepts, and delivering tested solutions that move the needle on trust and conversion. You will translate complex hiring workflows into intuitive experiences that align with both user needs and business goals. Design decisions are grounded in data, research, and collaboration to ensure they create meaningful outcomes. You will contribute to a living design system that keeps products consistent and efficient across every touchpoint.

Key facts

What you'll do

Product and research teams define user problems, and your designs turn those insights into clear flows and interfaces for hiring teams.

You translate ambiguous growth goals into structured design opportunities, defining problems and shaping solutions with cross-functional partners.

Design systems and UI patterns scale solutions so many customers experience consistent, fast, and safe screening journeys.

You build high-fidelity prototypes, and screeners and hiring teams use them to validate behavior, specifications, and safety expectations before build.

You run and interpret experiments, analyzing metrics to iterate on designs that help hiring teams move faster while improving outcomes for applicants.

Cross-functional collaboration aligns stakeholders, and opening channels of employment connects often overlooked candidates through thoughtful design.

You craft clear flows for onboarding, qualification, and screening that balance compliance, speed, and usability for diverse hiring teams.

Metrics and experiments inform your design decisions, and you use data to refine interactions and improve conversion across the hiring funnel.

You communicate design rationale and tradeoffs to product and engineering partners, ensuring shared understanding and alignment.

You contribute to the design system by creating reusable components and patterns that support scalable and consistent growth experiences.

Requirements

You demonstrate mastery of design tools, and you communicate clearly with both product and engineering partners.

You meet the visa requirement of US citizenship or permanent authorization.

You have a strong portfolio that shows problem framing, constraints, iteration, and the impact of your design decisions.

You are comfortable working in fast-paced environments where priorities can shift based on business and regulatory needs.

You understand the importance of accessibility, usability, and inclusive design principles in high-stakes hiring contexts.

You are able to manage multiple design initiatives and prioritize effectively across competing demands.

You communicate with clarity and confidence to stakeholders at all levels, from individual contributors to executive partners.

You meet the legal requirement of US citizenship or permanent authorization for this role.

Practical notes

This role is based in Denver, Colorado, and San Francisco, California, and may include travel.

Typical interview steps

Design interviews usually include a portfolio review, a design exercise, and a team conversation. Candidates present past work and explain their process and decisions. Some loops include a live design challenge. Communication matters as much as the visual output. Portfolios are strongest when they show the problem, the constraints, and the iteration, not just the final screens. Interviewers also watch how you take feedback.

Good to know

Product designers in growth contexts often run experiments to validate design decisions.

Design systems help teams maintain consistency across many customer journeys.

Strong communication is essential when working with engineering and product stakeholders.

Tools such as Figma and research platforms support interface development and validation.

Understanding of hiring workflows and compliance considerations is valuable in this domain.

Questions to ask

Worth asking in any interview: how the team measures success, who the role works with daily, what the onboarding looks like, and what the company is trying to achieve this year. Asking what past hires did well is a strong final question. Keep the list short and pick the questions that matter most to you.

Career growth

Design careers grow from junior to senior, staff, and principal levels. Some designers move into design management or design operations. Specializations include UX research, interaction design, and brand design. Cross-functional influence grows with seniority. Senior designers are expected to influence product strategy, not just execute visuals. Building a habit of user research strengthens any design career.

About the company

Checkr runs an AI-powered verification platform designed for high-stakes decisions. The product delivers fast, accurate background checks at scale.

The team builds and operates data pipelines, models, and user workflows. Engineers work on real-world risk problems. Roles value clarity, collaboration, and measurable impact.