Staff Product Manager, Channel Partner Experiences

About Checkr
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.

We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the team/role

As the leader of Checkr's Channel Partner Experiences, your role will involve delivering exceptional capabilities for channel partners and customers, facilitating the seamless integration of Checkr into their hiring workflows. You will also oversee the end user experience for Checkr’s post-hire compliance products that enable customers to perform background checks on employees after hiring. To ensure an excellent experience, it is essential to integrate with HR applications that manage the employee lifecycle within the organization. We are looking for someone with significant experience in Enterprise Software Product Management, especially in expanding businesses through channel partners by creating top-notch developer products and integrations. You will work closely with our business development team and collaborate with our SaaS partners to design engaging integrated experiences for end users. Furthermore, you will partner with engineering and operational stakeholders to ensure the developer platform is user-friendly, intuitive, and well-documented.

What you’ll do

• Directly own the strategy and roadmap for all developer products (such as API’s, developer portal, developer tools, prebuilt integrations, and an app marketplace) that enables Checkr to access key market segments through our partners and alliances.
• Perform market analysis to identify effective opportunities to drive an integrated experience with Checkr. Includes performing competitive analysis, working with leading analysts to understand where the market is heading, and interacting with our strategic customers to understand the direction that their business is moving towards.
• Ensure active collaboration with cross-functional teams within Checkr; Align your strategy with the business development team. Partner with PMM to drive an effective GTM strategy. Collaborate with other product teams at Checkr to drive effective product integrations.
• Create and prioritize a multi-release feature roadmap.
• Lead beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and platforms.
• Represent the customer; Be the champion and voice of strategic customers. Build impactful, personal customer relationships.
• Drive compelling demos at Checkr’s customer events.
• Provide other product teams at Checkr with an API platform that helps them to serve effective, and secure APIs to our end users.
• Measure success and impact of your products and identify expansion opportunities.
• Represent Checkr as a product expert at customer interactions, corporate events, and through community sites and social media.

What you bring

• Deep expertise in building products that are used by developers, and that make a developer’s life efficient.
• API design skills; Knowledge of working with distributed systems and integration.
• Expertise in the integration market; understand and communicate the competitive landscape and the problems experienced by target personas.
• Ability to drive the roadmap for Checkr’s developer products portfolio with a specific focus on low-code developers, and their ability to connect to a variety of business applications.
• Sustained track record of partnering with engineering teams to establish a prioritized product roadmap; groom the product backlog and represent the product’s capabilities during development.
• Experience collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams including Business Development, Professional Services, UX designers, Documentation, and Product Marketing; Drive enablement for our field organizations by partnering with our Support team and Solutions Engineering team.
• Experience leading end-to-end product realization from concept to release.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science.
• (Optional) A Master’s degree in computer science.
• At least 5 years of experience in technical product management working with or on developer-focussed products such as an iPaaS, or an API-based developer platform, or leading an in-product integration portfolio for a SaaS company, and similar.

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

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 our website.

The base salary range for this role is $207,0001 to $244,000.

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.