Head of Growth, Checkr Personal

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>About Checkr<br></strong></span>Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. <br><br>We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on <a href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/" target="_blank">Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List</a> and is a Y Combinator 2024 <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-top-companies-2024">Breakthrough Company</a>.</p></div><p><strong>About the team/role</strong></p> <p>Checkr is looking for a <strong>Head of</strong> <strong>Growth&nbsp;</strong>for our consumer product, <a href="https://checkr.com/verified">Checkr Personal</a>. Our vision is to build the largest network of verified individuals. Over the past year, we’ve seen exponential growth, both through direct-to-consumer adoption and growing demand from job platforms looking to embed our verified profiles to let their workers stand out.</p> <p>Given the strong traction and massive market opportunity, we’re making our first growth hire dedicated to this product line. This role will be the right hand to Checkr’s Co-founder and Head of Checkr Personal. You will be instrumental in shaping and scaling our growth.</p> <p>The ideal candidate is a scrappy, full-stack growth marketer with experience building and executing B2C strategies in fast-paced environments. This is a high-leverage opportunity to help scale a new product line inside a profitable, fast growing company.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll get</strong></p> <ul> <li>High-visibility work and ownership: Direct impact on one of Checkr’s newest and fastest-growing product lines.</li> <li>A fast-paced and collaborative environment: feels like a startup, but backed by the scale, resources, and reach of Checkr.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Own the growth engine</strong>: Design, run, and evolve our growth strategy, spanning acquisition, activation, and retention.</li> <li><strong>Move fast</strong>: Launch experiments across paid, organic, referral, and product channels; scale what works and drop what doesn’t.</li> <li><strong>Be hands-on</strong>: Write copy, launch ads, test landing pages, tweak onboarding flows, and dig into data.</li> <li><strong>Find leverage</strong>: Identify new channels, loops, and creative bets that unlock step-changes in user growth.</li> <li><strong>Collaborate deeply</strong>: Partner with product, design, and engineering to make growth part of the product experience.</li> <li><strong>Measure what matters</strong>: Track CAC, retention, LTV, and virality, but focus on learning velocity and compounding results.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <ul> <li>8+ years in growth marketing, with some experience as a founder or at an early stage, high-growth consumer startup.</li> <li>A generalist with experience across acquisition, lifecycle, and product-led growth.</li> <li>Comfortable getting scrappy: you test, learn, talk to users, and build without waiting for process or polish.</li> <li>Analytical and creative in equal measure: you can go from SQL to campaign copy and Figma mock in a single day.</li> <li>Excited by ambiguity and speed.</li> <li>Curious about AI-driven growth and automation tools.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll get</strong></p> <ul> <li>A fast-paced and collaborative environment</li> <li>Learning and development allowance</li> <li>Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement</li> <li>100% medical, dental, and vision coverage</li> <li>Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services</li> <li>Flexible PTO policy</li> <li>Monthly wellness stipend</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Pay Transparency Disclosure</strong></p> <p><em>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</em><a href="https://checkr.com/company/careers"><em> </em><em>our website</em></a><em>.</em></p></div><div class="title">On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$201,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$237,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, Nashville, TN, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.</em><strong><br></strong><strong><br></strong></p> <p><strong>Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr</strong><br><em>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 </em><a href="http://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/Document/FCO%20Art.%2049%20Official%20Notice%20to%20print%202017.pdf"><em>San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p><br><strong>Applicant Privacy Policy</strong><br>If you are a California resident or are located in Alberta or British Columbia, our <a href="https://checkr.com/legal/applicant-privacy-policy" target="_blank">Applicant Privacy Policy</a> applies to our collection and processing of your personal information when you apply for a role with us or otherwise participate in our recruitment process.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>).</em></p></div>