--- title: 'Customer Success Manager at Checkr' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/customer-success-manager-checkr-san-francisco-eqbtksmc70nh' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-18' --- # Customer Success Manager at Checkr - **Company:** Checkr - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $169k–$199k - **Posted:** 2026-03-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/checkr/jobs/7727737 ## Job description ## About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on [Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List](https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/) and is a Y Combinator 2024 [Breakthrough Company](https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-top-companies-2024). Checkr Trust and Checkr Insurance are fast-growing businesses inside Checkr, serving insurance carriers, marketplaces and other verticals that touch our everyday lives. Demand is building, our customer base is expanding, and we're scaling toward $100M. We're looking for a Customer Success Manager who can help us get there by turning strong customer relationships into deep adoption, durable retention, and meaningful expansion. You will own a portfolio of strategic accounts and be accountable for: - Adoption - Retention - Expansion - Executive alignment - Long-term value realization This is a proactive, commercially minded CSM role. You'll be the trusted partner our customers rely on and the owner of outcomes across your book of business. You'll join a team with momentum, playbooks to build on, and room to make them better as we scale. As the business grows, so will the opportunities for you, with real room for personal and career growth. ## What You'll Do Own Strategic Accounts End-to-End: - Serve as the primary post-sale owner for high-impact, high-visibility customers - Drive executive-level alignment on business goals and measurable outcomes - Ensure customers move from contract to meaningful production usage quickly Drive Adoption & Commercial Growth: - Identify underutilization and remove barriers to deeper adoption - Surface expansion opportunities tied to customer workflows and risk exposure - Partner closely with Sales on renewals and strategic growth motions - Be accountable for retention and expansion revenue across your portfolio - Use AI tools to work smarter and scale your impact across accounts Translate Product Into Business Impact: - Understand customer workflows well enough to connect product capabilities to operational and financial outcomes - Lead quarterly business reviews that demonstrate ROI and strategic value - Turn performance data into actionable insights that shape customer strategy - Leverage AI to turn data into insights - Bring the voice of the customer to Product and leadership through structured feedback Help Us Scale: - Apply and refine our segmentation, engagement models, and risk signals as the customer base grows - Strengthen repeatable frameworks for onboarding, renewals, and expansion - Contribute to the processes and best practices that let the team support more customers without losing quality - Raise the bar on what great customer partnership looks like as we grow What You Bring: You likely have: - Experience managing a book of enterprise accounts in Customer Success, Strategic Account Management, or a similar post-sale role in B2B SaaS - Experience owning enterprise or high-growth accounts with meaningful revenue responsibility - A track record of driving both retention and expansion - Comfort working with executive stakeholders as well as customer technical teams - Experience in a high-growth environment - Curiosity about AI and a habit of experimenting with it in your workflows - An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through change, and take ownership of outcomes You don't need a technical background or a history in a technical account management role. You do need to be sharp and technically comfortable enough to: - Learn our product and data deeply and explain it clearly to customers - Work with customers' teams to understand their workflows and what's slowing adoption - Speak confidently with product and technical stakeholders - Work in tools like Zendesk, Salesforce, Google Apps, Lovable, and Claude, and BI tools like Looker and Omni Behaviorally, You: - Take full ownership of revenue and outcomes - Push customers forward when momentum slows - Balance empathy with accountability - Stay calm and effective in a fast-moving, high-growth business - Prefer building scalable systems over maintaining the status quo People describe you as gritty, commercially sharp, resilient, and proactive. Why This Role: - You'll play a direct role in scaling a high-growth business toward $100M - You'll work with sophisticated customers solving complex trust and safety problems - You'll have real, visible commercial impact on retention and expansion - You'll help shape how Customer Success scales as the business grows - You'll have room to grow your own career, with expanded scope and new opportunities as the company grows This role is demanding. It requires urgency, discipline, and ownership, and it's highly rewarding for someone who wants to grow with a business that's winning. 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](https://checkr.com/company/careers). 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. ## Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the [San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance](https://www.sf.gov/worker-rights-san-francisco). Applicant Privacy Policy If you are a California resident or are located in Alberta or British Columbia, our [Applicant Privacy Policy](https://checkr.com/legal/applicant-privacy-policy) applies to our collection and processing of your personal information when you apply for a role with us or otherwise participate in our recruitment process. For applicants in Massachusetts: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. *Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., name@checkr.com or name@ext.checkr.com). ## About Checkr ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Checkr is an AI-native trust and verification platform that powers safe and fair decisions for identity, background, employment, and credential verification. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Daniel Yanisse, Jonathan Perichon ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Background checks, identity verification, fraud prevention, trust and safety, HR tech, tenant screening, mortgage verification - **Target customers**: B2B — serving over 140,000 customers across all industries and sizes, including enterprises for hiring, lenders for mortgage/income verification, property managers for tenant screening, and insurers for risk intelligence. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To power safe and fair decisions for high-stakes decisions, with a strong commitment to fair chance hiring and second chances. ## Products & Services - **Workforce (Background Checks & Verifications for Hiring)**: The core product for employment background checks, criminal screenings, and credential verification. - **Tenant**: Automated tenant screening for faster and fairer leasing decisions. - **Mortgage**: Income and employment verification for lenders. - **Trust**: Real-time risk intelligence to protect people and property. - **Personal**: Empowering individuals to own and share their verified identity and credentials. - **Checkr AI**: The underlying AI platform that transforms fragmented data into actionable insights, powered by the "People Data Graph" — a comprehensive identity map built from verified data linked across hundreds of millions of real identities. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $5 billion (Series E) - **Key Metric**: $500M+ annual revenue; highly profitable; 140,000+ customers; serves 100M+ people every year. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided sources, but known to include Accel, Y Combinator, and other top-tier VCs. - **Growth Signals**: Expanding beyond background checks into mortgage, tenant, and personal verification; strong AI-native positioning; 97% of customers report faster turnaround times than with previous vendors; three years on Built In's Best Places to Work. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-Native Platform**: Checkr AI and the "People Data Graph" create a proprietary data moat that competitors cannot easily replicate, linking hundreds of millions of identities. - **Fair Chance Hiring Leadership**: A decade of advocacy and product design around fairness creates brand trust and differentiation, especially in regulated industries. - **Scale & Speed**: 140,000+ customers and 97% faster turnaround than previous vendors demonstrate operational excellence. - **Mission-Driven**: Commitment to Pledge 1% (product, equity, profits toward fair chance hiring) builds a strong employer brand and attracts talent who care about social impact. ## Strategic Focus - **AI & Automation**: Deep investment in AI across all teams and products — "Builders fluent in AI, curious about what's next" is a core hiring principle. - **Platform Expansion**: Moving from a single-use background check product to a multi-use trust platform (Workforce, Tenant, Mortgage, Trust, Personal). - **Talent Density**: Hiring strategy optimizes for "talent density" — every hire raises the average. This creates a high-performance culture. - **Fraud Prevention**: Addressing the growing fraud landscape with real-time risk intelligence. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: High-performance, mission-driven, AI-native. The company explicitly states: "If you want a comfortable seat, you're in the wrong place." They hire for values, believing everything else is teachable. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Hybrid with offices in San Francisco, Denver, Nashville, and Santiago, Chile. Many roles are remote within the US. - **Compensation & Benefits**: - 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for employees; majority for dependents. - Equity for every full-time employee ("Every full-time employee is an owner"). - $3,000/yr learning stipend. - 1-month paid sabbatical every 3 years. - Generous fully paid parental leave plus fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support. - Flexible time off. - 401(k) plan. - Wellness stipend (gym, fitness, etc.). - Commuter benefits (monthly stipend for transit/parking). - Mental health & coaching resources. - **Engineering Culture**: AI-native, high bar for talent. Engineering is the largest hiring department. Roles include Staff AI Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, AI Conversation Designer. - **Offer Acceptance Rate**: 81% from final round to offer; <48 hour response time from final round to offer — indicating a fast, efficient process. ## Sources 1. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company) 2. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers) 3. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers/open-careers) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkr-com) 5. 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