Senior Director of Data

About CheckrCheckr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.As the Senior Director of Data at Checkr, you will be responsible for both the centralized data functions for all of Checkr (data infrastructure and governance) as well as the Product Analytics and Data Science function, which is the largest departmental data team at Checkr. In addition, you will interface with data organizations in other departments, most frequently the RevOps, CorpEng/BI teams, and finance team. You will own both internal and customer-facing data use cases, and be responsible for driving the overall data strategy at Checkr.  What you’ll doGuide the technical vision and strategy for an accurate, scalable, usable, and reliable data platform and infrastructureManage through a hub and spoke data team organization model, creating strong partnerships with RevOps, BI, finance teams, and moreCreate governing principles for data access, accuracy, freshness, etc for all data organizations at Checkr to followManage the Data Engineering, Product Analytics, and Data Science functionsManage our most senior individual contributors directlyProvide actionable business insights to product and other cross functional leadersBuild a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belongPartner with product leadership to influence business strategy through data-driven decision making Bring customer-centricity to your entire data engineering and analytics teamHire, retain, and scale a world-class data team What you bringDemonstrated success in building and leading vision, strategy, and execution of platform engineering initiativesExperience with driving successful platform adoption programs, with the ability to demonstrate the business impact of such initiativesData-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 mindCustomer 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 customersHighly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group both internally and externallyWillingness to lead in a hands-on, high-performance environmentOrganized, self-motivated and detail-orientedHigh degree of humility and accountabilityExperience leading, growing, and retaining high-performance engineering managers and individual contributorsWhat you’ll getA fast-paced and collaborative environmentLearning and development allowanceCompetitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement100% medical, dental, and vision coverageUp to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning servicesFlexible PTO policyMonthly wellness stipend, home office stipendAt Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. 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 $325,533 - $382,980 in San Francisco, CA. Equal Employment Opportunities at CheckrCheckr 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.