Senior Product Designer, Mortgage

Checkr; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A fast-paced and collaborative环境

Learning and development allowance

Competitive cash and equity compensat…

100% medical, dental, and vision cover

Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility

Flexible PTO policy

Monthly wellness stipend

Job summary

Checkr in San Francisco is seeking a senior product designer to own end-to-end product design across borrower, lender, and internal operational experiences, from discovery through launch and iteration. You will partner with Product and Engineering to define problems, shape roadmaps, and deliver high‑quality, user‑friendly solutions.

You should have 5–8+ years of design experience, a strong portfolio showing impact, and the ability to distill complexity into clear flows while collaborating across

Qualifications

• You have 5–8+ years of product design experience (or equivalent).
• Your portfolio demonstrates end-to-end thinking with problem framing, exploration, rationale, collaboration, iteration, and measurable impact.
• You can distill complexity into simple, usable flows.
• You have strong product instincts balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• You can collaborate in cross-functional environments and influence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own design for key product areas from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define problems, shape roadmaps, and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Simplify complex workflows into clear, user-friendly experiences.
• Use AI-assisted design tools to rapidly prototype, validate, and implement lightweight UI changes.
• Design for trust and clarity in a sensitive financial domain with accessible UI patterns.
• Translate insights into outcomes by combining qualitative research, stakeholder input, and product data.
• Create thoughtful interaction and visual design across responsive web and platform surfaces, with clear specs for engineering.
• Facilitate alignment with workshops, design reviews, and storytelling to move from ambiguity to decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams like Customer Success, Sales, Compliance/Legal, Data, and Operations.
• Contribute to design systems and standards to improve consistency, speed, and quality.

Skills

Product design

End-to-end design

Cross-functional

Prototyping

Accessibility

Job description

About Checkr

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

What you’ll do

• Own design for key Truework product areas across borrower, lender, and internal operational experiences (as applicable), from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define problems, shape roadmaps, and deliver high-quality solutions that align user needs with business outcomes.
• Simplify complex workflows (verification requests, document collection, consent/authorization, status visibility, exception handling) into clear, user-friendly experiences.
• Use AI-assisted design and development tools to rapidly prototype, validate, and—when appropriate—implement lightweight UI changes in code to improve iteration speed and overall product quality.
• Design for trust and clarity in a sensitive financial domain—prioritizing transparency, error prevention, accessibility, and confidence-building UI patterns.
• Translate insights into outcomes by combining qualitative research, stakeholder input, and product data to propose, test, and refine solutions.
• Create thoughtful interaction and visual design across responsive web and/or platform surfaces, producing clear specs and assets for engineering.
• Facilitate alignment with workshops, design reviews, and strong storytelling—helping teams move from ambiguity to decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with partners such as Customer Success, Sales, Compliance/Legal, Data, and Operations to ensure designs work in the real world.
• Contribute to design systems and standards to improve consistency, speed, and quality across Truework.

What you bring

• You have 5–8+ years of product design experience (or equivalent), with a strong track record of shipping high-quality work.
• Your portfolio demonstrates end-to-end thinking: problem framing, exploration, rationale, collaboration, iteration, and measurable impact.
• You’re comfortable working in complex domains where edge cases matter, and you can distill that complexity into simple, usable flows.
• You have strong product instincts—you know how to balance user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and timeline realities.
• You’re experienced in collaborative, cross-functional environments, influencing decisions through clarity rather than authority.
• You can independently plan and execute lightweight research (interviews, usability testing, concept validation) and partner effectively with researchers when available.
• You sweat the details: interaction patterns, content clarity, information hierarchy, and accessibility best practices.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, lending, mortgage, identity, compliance-heavy, or other high-trust regulated spaces.
• Experience designing B2B / B2B2C products, especially workflows used by operations teams or external partners.
• Familiarity with design systems, documentation, and scalable component thinking.
• Experience designing for secure data, consent, and privacy-forward user experiences.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

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.

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)

$169,000 - $199,000 USD

What We Offer

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity 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

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

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