About the Role
Checkr Trust is building a new business focused on insurance, aiming to accelerate solutions that detect bad actors before they impact businesses. This role offers a unique opportunity to operate like a founder within an established company, with significant ownership and impact in a developing market.
Responsibilities
- Own the insurance vertical: define ICPs across carriers, MGAs, program administrators, and insurtech platforms — then build repeatable motion where none exists yet
- Leverage existing insurance relationships to accelerate pipeline and shorten deal cycles
- Own the entire deal lifecycle — from cold outreach to multi-threaded enterprise close
- Educate the market on a category that is still forming, translating Checkr Trust's value into the language of underwriting, loss prevention, and claims risk
- Navigate complex insurance buying processes involving underwriting, compliance, legal, and executive stakeholders
- Experiment with AI to find efficiencies across your work
- Partner cross-functionally with product, legal, operations, and leadership to shape how we win in insurance
- Hit ambitious revenue targets
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of full-cycle, quota-carrying sales experience — hunting required
- Deep roots in the insurance industry
- Sold six- or seven-figure deals in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- Understands insurance workflows well enough to connect Checkr Trust's solutions to real underwriting and risk management problems
- Built pipeline when there was no brand awareness in a market
- Worked in a startup or operated like you were in one
- Outperformed targets in situations that weren't perfectly set up for you
- Tangible examples of projects created using advanced AI tactics
- Carries an A-player mindset: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
- Grit: energy and work ethic raises the bar of others
- Prefers autonomy and ownership to rigid structure
- Doesn't wait for perfect messaging — tests, iterates, refines
- Comfortable hearing "no" repeatedly without losing momentum
- Cares about building something meaningful, not just closing this quarter's deal
- Holds self to a higher internal standard than anyone else will
- Relentless, disciplined, competitive — but collaborative
- Understands that building something valuable in a complex, regulated industry like insurance is both rewarding and uncomfortable
Skills
- Sales
- Insurance industry knowledge
- AI tactics
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite (3+ days a week)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5-7+ years of sales experience
Salary/Compensations
- $258,000—$304,000 USD (On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range)
Benefits
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation
- 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
- In-office perks: lunch five times a week, commuter stipend, snacks and beverages
- Relocation stipend may be available
About the Company
- 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.
- Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic.
- Recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
