Senior Lead Designer, Interactive

Posted Mar 26

Checkr’s mission is to build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all. We believe all candidates, regardless of who they are, should have a fair chance to work. Established in 2014 and valued at $5B, Checkr is using technology to bring hiring to the next level. Our People Trust Platform uses machine learning to help thousands of companies modernize their background check process and make hiring safer, more efficient, and more inclusive. Some of our customers include Uber, Instacart, Doordash, Netflix, Compass Group, and Adecco.

A career with Checkr is an opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest minds, disrupt an industry for a better future, and give otherwise overlooked candidates access to employment. Checkr has been recognized in Forbes Best Startup Employers and is a top Y Combinator company by valuation.

Checkr’s mission is to build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all. We believe all candidates, regardless of who they are, should have a fair chance to work. Established in 2014 and valued at $4.6B, Checkr is using technology to bring hiring to the next level. Our People Trust Platform uses machine learning to help thousands of companies modernize their background check process and make hiring safer, more efficient, and more inclusive. Some of our customers include, Uber, Instacart, Doordash, Netflix, Compass Group, and Adecco.

We’re looking for an experienced, innovative, and strategic creative professional to join the Brand Studio team to help define high-quality web experiences for the Checkr brand. Reporting to the Creative Director, you’ll work closely with the Brand Studio team, web developers, and marketers to champion the Checkr brand across all touchpoints. Please note a professional design portfolio is required to apply.

The Checkr Brand Studio team is a small but talented, multidisciplinary group of creatives who create beautiful and effective brand experiences across multiple touchpoints. We tell Checkr’s story to the world, and are responsible for creating experiences that have a measurable impact and delight our customers.

You are a creative leader with 9+ years of in-house or agency experience creating and directing world-class interactive experiences for innovative brands in tech and B2B. As a motivated, creative professional you thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, finding opportunity in ambiguity and new creative ways to improve the user experience and elevate the brand.

You use customer data and insights to tailor your designs to increase business results and effectiveness. You are excited about solving real problems for real people through research, design, and iteration to create experiences that are engaging, useful, and solution oriented.

You are excited about crafting stories that simultaneously speak to the product technology while maintaining connectivity to the human experience, finding original and brilliant solutions to difficult problems.

Above all, you have a passion for the craft with an eye for aesthetics and detail, and the ability to meticulously bring your concepts to life. You are passionate about design that is elegant, thoughtful, meaningful, provocative, and impactful.

Responsibilities:

You’ll be responsible for designing extraordinary, high-performing, interactive brand experiences on the company website, microsites, and new immersive interactive experiences in close collaboration with our web operations team.
You’ll continuously use analytics, user testing and learnings from past projects to inform new design projects with qualitative and quantitative data.
You'll make design decisions with a deep understanding of the customer persona, and the entire end-to-end user experience.
You’ll collaborate closely with marketing team members and stakeholders to create concepts that will meet their goals and expectations.
You'll partner with web developers throughout the build and launch and be responsible for maintaining a high standard for our digital touch points, from concept to execution.
You'll explore new concepts for brand expressions and experience across a wide range of interactive channels.
In addition to being the senior lead creative for web and interactive, you’ll gladly jump in on additional brand projects as needed, including campaign creative, event branding, presentation decks, etc. We’re a small team, and we need to be scrappy!

What you bring:

Beautiful portfolio of interactive work, demonstrating creative brilliance.
Experience as a creative lead and guiding less experienced designers.
Strong communication skills; ability to listen, present, and communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences in varying levels of the organization, from peers to senior leadership.
Strategic and conceptual thinking; exploring new expressions for the brand experience, always focused on the "why" and the outcome for customers and users.
Expert proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and all the current tools of the trade.
Capable of working on simultaneous projects while maintaining a strong attention to detail, in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
Manage projects with external freelancers and agencies, leading to a successful, on-budget outcome.
Experience designing beautiful and creative interactive brand experiences.
Experience in developing brand standards, guidelines and documentation, and design systems for interactive use cases.
Clear understanding of the competitive landscape and best practices across B2B tech brands.
Deep knowledge and POV on information architecture, usability, accessibility, and UI/UX design best practices.

What you get:

A fast-paced and collaborative environment
Learning and development allowance
Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
100% medical, dental and vision coverage
Flexible PTO policy
Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

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. The salary range for this role is $115,000 to $229,000.

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.