Checkr

Senior Product Designer, Mortgage

Checkr$169K — $199K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product design experience with a strong record of delivering high-quality work.
  • Portfolio showcases end-to-end design processes and measurable impact.
  • Comfortable in complex domains and able to simplify workflows.
  • Strong instincts in balancing user needs, business goals, and technical limitations.
  • Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams without relying on authority.
  • Ability to conduct lightweight research and collaborate with researchers when needed.
  • Detail-oriented regarding design patterns and accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Own product design across borrower, lender, and internal experiences from start to launch.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to identify problems and create solutions.
  • Simplify intricate workflows into user-friendly designs.
  • Utilize AI-assisted tools for rapid prototyping and UI adjustments.
  • Design to foster trust and clarity in financial interactions.
  • Translate insights into actionable designs through research and data.
  • Produce clear design specifications for engineering.

Benefits

  • Fast-paced and collaborative work environment
  • Learning and development allowance
  • 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning (up to $25K)
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • In-office perks including lunch and snacks, plus potential relocation stipend.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join Truework and help shape the end-to-end experiences that power income verification for mortgages and other lending use cases. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to design intuitive workflows for complex, high-trust domains-balancing borrower ease, lender clarity, and operational realities.

This is a hands-on product design role with high ownership: you'll drive discovery through execution, bring strong craft, and help the team make great decisions through clear thinking and excellent communication.

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


At Checkr, we believe an in office 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.

About Checkr

Checkr is a software company that provides background check services to businesses. The company's platform allows employers to quickly and easily screen job candidates, helping to ensure that they are hiring the right people for their organization. Checkr's technology is used by a wide range of companies, from small startups to large enterprises, and the company has received numerous awards for its innovative approach to background checks.
Learn more about Checkr
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2014

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