Staff Knowledge Base Specialist

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, 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 . About the team/role As the Staff Knowledge Base Specialist, you will be a senior contributor to the knowledge systems that enable both Checkr's human and digital workers to resolve issues accurately and efficiently. This is a senior individual contributor role within Shared Services, responsible for leading complex, cross-functional knowledge programs that span department boundaries and directly shape the quality of agent-assisted and AI-driven resolution at scale. You will set strategy, clarify goals, and independently drive programs from initiation to measurable outcomes. Knowledge at Checkr serves a dual audience: human agents who rely on clear, actionable content to resolve complex cases, and AI agents that retrieve, reason over, and act on that same knowledge base autonomously. This role requires mastery of both dimensions. You will design content that is clear and actionable for human agents while simultaneously being structured for accurate AI retrieval, optimized for fast search, and enriched with metadata that drives correct segmentation and response logic. You will also build, manage, and iterate on AI workforce agents that accelerate knowledge operations, treating them as members of your toolkit the same way you would a contractor or vendor. Our ideal candidate brings a rare combination of disciplines: the precision of a technical writer, the systems thinking of an information architect, and the LLM fluency of