Lead Recruiter

Building at Check

At Check, we make paying people simple. In doing that, we’re not just building our own business— we’re building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll, we’re redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses to launch, grow, and thrive. Check out the full story | Tune in.

Check is far more than just API infrastructure. We’re a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

Our Team

Payroll is broken. Come fix it alongside a team that’s as passionate as you are! At Check, you'll use creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and grit to impact every business we build. We view problems to solve and jobs to be done as opportunities to contribute to the solution; we ignore conventional role boundaries in favor of the unique strengths and value each builder brings to our team and to our mission.

Join us if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll. Let’s simplify the complex, make a real impact, and create a better future for businesses of every size.

The People Team

Talent is our highest investment, and Checketeers are the ultimate driver of our long-term growth and success. The People team is dedicated to bringing together skilled and dedicated individuals that can bring our business vision to life, and to fostering an engaged, high-performing team. We aim to create a diverse and equitable workplace where everyone pitches in to achieve incredible things, and every Checketeer is celebrated, supported, and valued for their contributions.

We are looking for a Lead Recruiter to own our hiring efforts from end to end, across R&D, GTM, and G&A. This role sits at the center of how we grow our company and requires strong judgment, clear communication, and a deep sense of ownership.

You will be responsible for bringing exceptional people into Check, partnering closely with people leaders to define the needs on each team, clarify what great looks like in each role, and engage with top talent to fill those seats. You’ll be designing and running hiring processes that are both detailed and rigorous, as well as thoughtful and human. To thrive in this role you must care deeply about candidate experience, hiring quality, and your real daily business impact.

In this role, you will:

• Own full-cycle recruiting across Engineering, GTM, and G&A, bringing an outcomes-focused mentality to our hiring efforts - you’ll help shape the capabilities of our entire company!
• Develop and drive employer branding, sourcing, and outreach campaigns to build strong candidate pipelines - you’ll optimize for quality over quantity to keep our efforts laser-focused and efficient.
• Lead and iterate on recruiting operations end-to-end - you’ll continually explore new ways to help our team make great hiring decisions quickly, while keeping candidates excited about Check.
• Guide and advise hiring managers by shaping roles, clarifying scope and requirements, and aligning on a clear and consistent talent bar across teams - you’ll be a true partner to hiring managers by building their instincts, judgment, and skills while shepherding them through the recruiting process.
• Ensure we’re always seeking truth in our recruiting process by leading incisive and insightful intake conversations - you’ll draw out spicy takes, challenge assumptions, and set teams up to hire well by driving alignment on Check’s philosophies, standards, and needs.
• Set and maintain a high performance bar for Talent at Check while moving fast in hiring - you’ll keep the big picture in mind, ensuring we make strong long-term staffing decisions and helping us dodge negotiation traps.
• Bring ownership to areas of ambiguity and add structure where it is needed - from interviewer training, to candidate debriefs, to hiring retrospectives, to employer branding, you’ll have your hands in a little bit of everything, with no shortage of opportunities to get more involved in shaping our team and culture.
• Partner closely with the Head of People to build creative and engaging hiring plans, competitive compensation structures, effective training programs, and executive reporting capabilities - you’ll continually raise the visibility of the work you do and maximize its impact on every aspect of the business!

Many backgrounds could fit this role, but ideal candidates will have most or all of the following:

• 5+ years of in-house recruiting experience across multiple disciplines (technical and non-technical), preferably in a fast-paced startup or growth-stage environment - you’re ready to hit the ground running with open roles across all teams at Check!
• Fluency with Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter, and proficiency with emerging recruiting tools and technologies - you’re a bit of a tech buff, maybe you’d call yourself an evangelist…
• Proven ability to own full-cycle recruiting and operations independently, from role design and sourcing through coordination, closing, and offer management - you like diving into the weeds in your domain to ensure quality and consistency from top to bottom.
• Strong sourcing capability, including outbound outreach and pipeline building for hard-to-fill roles - you get creative with how to craft and market an employer brand, and you know how to engage candidates who can thrive in our team environment.
• Clear, direct communication and exceptional storytelling - you’re equally adept at influencing senior stakeholders and selling candidates on a vision and their path forward at Check.
• Strong judgment and the ability to maintain a high talent bar under time pressure - there’s urgency, and then there’s false urgency. You know the difference, you know how to balance it with uncompromising standards, and you’re great at helping others build the same understanding.
• A bias toward action and comfort with ambiguity - you’re comfortable laying the track when the train is already moving, and always helping our team move faster without sacrificing the integrity of our process.

What we offer:

For full-time employees, Check offers stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 9 annual holidays, generous paid parental leave for all new parents and flexible return-to-work, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses. We also provide high-quality medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage, effective on your first day of work.

At Check, transparency and fairness in compensation are our top priorities: our compensation bands are visible to all employees across all roles. The actual annual salary for this role is dependent on each candidate’s experience, qualifications, and work location:

• The expected range in San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle is between $144,000 and $158,400.
• The expected range for all other locations is between $122,500 and $155,000.

Travel and Office Policy

The Check team is distributed across the US, and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we embrace remote work, we believe time together in person is where we do our best work. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team off-sites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year! We expect all employees to attend our annual 3-day company retreat in the spring.

For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the team hosts regular happy hours, game nights, etc.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline.

Remote work at Check requires the ability to perform all responsibilities without distraction or disruption, while maintaining quality, effective communication, and productivity.

Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, provided they are consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

Check participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U.S. Check does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.