Staff Product Manager, Developer Platform

About Checkr
Checkr’s mission is to build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all. We believe all candidates, regardless of who they are, should have a fair chance to work. Established in 2014 and valued at $5B, Checkr is using technology to bring hiring to the next level. Our People Trust Platform uses machine learning to help thousands of companies modernize their background check process and make hiring safer, more efficient, and more inclusive. Some of our customers include Uber, Instacart, Doordash, Netflix, Compass Group, and Adecco.

A career with Checkr is an opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest minds, disrupt an industry for a better future, and give otherwise overlooked candidates access to employment. Checkr has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 Best Places to Work in the US and is a Y Combinator 2023 Breakthrough Company and Top Company by Valuation.

About the team/role

As a leader of Checkr’s developer products, you will be responsible for delivering market-leading capabilities for our customers and partners to create embedded experiences with Checkr to streamline their hiring workflows. We are looking for someone who has spent several years in Enterprise Software Product Management focusing on developer products and integrations. You will own the vision, strategy, and execution of Checkr’s developer products, which includes our flagship API, API accelerators such as SDK’s, and the overall developer experience via developer productivity tools to build, test, and debug integrations. You will work alongside our business development team and collaborate with our SaaS partners to deliver engaging integrated experiences for end users. You will also work with engineering and operational stakeholders to ensure the developer platform is easy to learn, easy to use, and is 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