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.

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.

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.

• 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…