Melanie Cernak
SENIOR STAFF PRODUCT DESIGNER | SAN FRANCISCO, CADesigns products that help companies hire safely: took hiring fraud from idea to company pillar in one quarter and grew Policy Builder from 16 to 300+ customers (eight-figure revenue). Leads Enterprise design at Checkr, helped grow the team from 4 to 18, and was the first designer there to ship production code.
CURRENTLYSenior Staff Product Designer at Checkr
FOCUSEnterprise, fraud, fair chance hiring
RECOGNITIONFast Company World Changing Ideas
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EARLIER
Partner Manager, Tophatter · Partner Manager, GoodHire · Project Manager, CEGA
Design: Systems thinking, platform design, interaction design, UX research, accessibility
AI & Data: LLM prototyping, prompt design, AI-assisted front-end, model evaluation, decision systems
University of California, Berkeley | B.S. Business Administration