Head of Monetization Engineering

About Checkr Checkr 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 has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 Best Places to Work in the US and is a Y Combinator 2023 Breakthrough Company.

About the team/role

As the Head of Monetization Engineering, you will create a best-in-class monetization platform that scales with Checkr for the next 10+ years. In this role, you will drive Checkr’s ambitious monetization strategy and product roadmap, including the roadmap for invoicing, payment, and other revenue-related areas. You will align stakeholders, internal business partners and leadership around defining the plan, and partner with cross-functional teams to execute it. Your expert technical guidance and mentorship will help your team turn empathy into action for our customers. Since monetization is at the heart of Checkr’s business, your strategic decisions will have a great impact on revenue thus helping Checkr grow to the next level!

What you’ll do

• Partner with leaders across cross-functional areas to make monetization Checkr’s growth driver
• Ensure that the engineering teams you lead are building a highly scalable and available monetization platform and associated integrated experiences that can fulfill the need of monetizing any product, feature, or platform
• Provide technical leadership and guidance and would help facilitate the team to build out new capabilities and systems in a manner such that they drive efficiency of execution while solving for scale, resilience, reliability at the same time
• Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision
• Coach and grow your team and help them do the best work of their careers
• Partner with other leaders to provide thought leadership and help accomplish initiatives outside the immediate scope of responsibility through influence or guidance
• Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
• Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Finance, RevOps, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
• Ensure that the team remains execution focused and effective in a fast-paced environment

What you bring

• 10+ years of experience in leading or managing teams of engineers and engineering managers
• 5+ years of experience in monetization platform domain
• Experience in leading key consumer feature delivery and experience launching or maintaining high-impact product software at scale
• Experience working closely with various levels of business stakeholders, along with CStaff/EStaff, and understand value alignment
• Ability to process complex workflows and ensure alignment with key stakeholders
• Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills with the ability to define and communicate the "big picture" to key stakeholders
• Experience with working on a geographically dispersed team and are able to bridge the gap between time zones without affecting key timelines and delivery
• You always strive for operational excellence: the quality of the software owned by your team and operational performance metrics improve under your leadership

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

At 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 $337,511 to $397,072 in San Francisco, CA.

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.