About the Role
As a Strategic Account Executive on the Truework team, you’ll help scale our impact across large national and regional lenders, with a primary focus on acquiring new clients to Truework Verification services. You will lead the charge in building and executing a repeatable playbook to drive new customers and deeply understand their unique company challenges and goals to pair them with solutions that will help them reach their business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Consistently achieve pipeline and revenue targets by applying modern sales techniques and processes to efficiently manage top of funnel engagement tactics and deal strategy and close processes
- Plan and execute targeted campaigns for your territory working with the marketing and partner teams to scale your coverage and build pipeline
- Partner with and guide the efforts of our internal team to support your accounts in pre-sales activities and in the deployment to execute on agreed upon account goals, strategies and tactics for growth
- Leverage analytics, case studies, past performance, and market intelligence to create a territory plan and craft your own target account strategies
- Have an understanding of the lender’s operation and an ability to identify the varying use cases where verification services can drive impact
- Exhibit deep and up-to-date knowledge of our product portfolio in order to communicate the benefits of new features and enhancements
- Show proficiency in navigating buy team personas, with intentional activities for executive bridging and champion building
- Actively understand each customer’s strategic growth plans, technology footprint, and corresponding technology strategy, internal challenges, and competitive landscape
- Review public information (e.g., new executive appointments, earnings statements, press releases) for the company and its competitors to stay updated on key industry trends and issues impacting the prospect
- Be equipped to identify and discover centers of value for lenders, and conduct analysis to quantify ROI and impact of our solution on their operation
- Represent both market trends and client needs to the Executive and the Product teams to ensure we are both serving current needs well and evolving our products and portfolio to identify future client needs
- Show unparalleled grit - constantly experiment, be willing to pivot, and have resiliency regardless of the obstacles faced
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-cycle sales experience, selling transformative technology solutions
- Experience closing new business accounts and building pipeline using modern marketing tactics
- Experience selling to EVPs, CXOs and end-users (in the same sales cycle) in both individual and team sales environments
- Ability to navigate large organizations’ political landscape to maintain and expand relationships at all levels
- General knowledge in common sales practices like MEDDPICC, Command of the Message (Force Management), Challenger, Power Selling, or others
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to simplify complex topics in a friendly and approachable manner, present executive-level business cases
- Ability to juggle and complete multiple priorities and projects (internally and externally) in a fast-paced environment
- You are smart, self-motivated, organized, disciplined, inquisitive, detail-oriented, and process-oriented; you have an ownership mentality within all aspects of your work
- You have a growth mindset that is always learning, growing, and actively seeking feedback
- You have a team-first mentality—you show up for your team and expect the same in return. You enjoy planning, adjusting, executing, winning, and celebrating as a team
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
Skills
- Sales Excellence
- Pipeline Management
- Revenue Targets
- Sales Techniques
- Deal Strategy
- Territory Campaigns
- Account Management
- Product Knowledge
- Buy Team Navigation
- Executive Bridging
- Champion Building
- Industry Acumen
- Customer Acumen
- ROI Analysis
- Collaboration
- Grit
- Learning
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Adaptability
Location
- Remote
- San Francisco, CA
- Denver, CO
- Nashville, TN
- Santiago, Chile
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In-office (3+ days a week)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of full-cycle sales experience
Salary/Compensations
- $298,642—$351,343 USD (San Francisco, CA)
- $229,724—$351,343 USD (Remote)
Benefits
- 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
- 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 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, Amazon, 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 and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
- Truework, recently acquired by Checkr, provides access to crucial employment, income information and asset information needed for mortgage loans, apartment rentals, background checks, and more.
- We are disrupting a $5B+ industry, dominated by legacy incumbents and outdated processes, with a better product and intense customer focus.
- Within Checkr, Truework operates independently, allowing rapid iteration while also being able to leverage the strengths and assets from our core business.
- Think of it like joining a startup within a startup!
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.
