VP, Engineering

In this role as Vice President of Engineering, you will focus on delivering both products and capabilities to our customers. You will partner with product leaders to define and execute the strategy across your overall product area. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, coach, and inspire a team to meet company objectives and bring new products and features to market.  This role reports to the SVP of Engineering.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure reliable operation across all services in your product area
• Operationalize and manage delivery across 60+ software and quality engineers, scaling processes and systems
• Grow our engineering team capacity through both coaching and hiring
• Build a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belong
• Partner with product leadership to influence business strategy especially in your area of ownership
• Bring customer centricity to your entire engineering team
• Identify new market opportunities to drive innovation and business growth
• Hire, retain, and scale a world-class engineering team team 

What you bring:

• Demonstrated success building and leading vision, strategy, and execution of software products
• Experience building growth products
• Data driven mindset: you know that everything built must be measured to understand its impact on the business and drive your teams to build with that in mind
• Customer centricity: you understand that customer behavior and sentiment must be well understood to effectively build products for them; this can be understood both through data as well as qualitative discussions with customers
• Experience defining and scaling modern products (API, self-service, UX first products)
• Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group both internally and externally
• Willingness to lead in a hands-on, high performance environment
• Organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented
• High degree of humility and accountability
• Experience leading, growing, and retaining high performance engineering leadership at Director+ level

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
• Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

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.