Senior Recruiter

ABOUT CHECK

Payroll is broken. It's still running on decades-old infrastructure. We're rebuilding it.

We don't run payroll ourselves — we power the businesses that do. As the inventors of embedded payroll, we're redefining how people get paid and making it easier for those businesses to launch, grow, and thrive.

On our team, you'll use creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and grit to simplify the complexity of payroll for thousands of employers of every size, across all industries. We ignore conventional role boundaries in favor of the unique strengths and values each builder brings to our mission: make paying people simple. Check out our origin story! https://app.notion.com/p/checkhq/The-Generalist-Check-Solving-the-150-Billion-Payroll-Problem-3b24274a2e75804e9141cfac60476d25?source=copy_link

Check is far more than just API infrastructure. We’re a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses. See how it works for our partners. https://www.checkhq.com/partners

THE PEOPLE TEAM

At Check, 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.

Check is looking for a Senior Recruiter to enable our hiring efforts during a critical growth phase, partnering closely with people leaders and interview teams on high-priority roles. This role sits at the center of how we build the company. It requires strong judgment, clear communication, deep ownership, and a genuine love for partnering with hiring managers and candidates alike.

You'll be responsible for bringing exceptional people into Check — understanding needs deeply, shaping searches, calibrating bar, and running rigorous-but-human assessments. To thrive in this role you must care deeply about candidate experience, hiring quality, and the daily business impact of your work. You must also be a sourcing powerhouse: not just skilled at finding great candidates, but also nuanced and compelling in your outreach so they engage deeply with the opportunity, and come away from initial conversations excited to continue in the process.

Your initial focus will be on building TOFU across our high-priority reqs in R&D and Operations. As you build funnel, your scope will broaden into full-cycle ownership. You'll apply your calibration and learnings to thoughtful candidate screens, interview loop optimization, and closing strategies.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

- Own process and pipeline for a load of 5-10 high-priority searches, with a heavy initial focus on building top-of-funnel candidate pools. You’ll build JDs and interview loops with an outcomes-focused mentality, partnering closely with hiring managers to define needs, clarify what great looks like, and engage with top talent to fill those seats.

- Be a true partner to hiring teams from day one. You'll shape roles, drive intake conversations that draw out spicy takes, challenge assumptions, and align teams on Check's standards and needs. Stakeholder partnership is the primary mode of operation here, it’s not optional.

- Maintain crisp data and process hygiene in Ashby, leveraging the platform's AI-augmented sourcing, search, and pipeline tools to raise visibility, keep pipelines moving smoothly, and amplify your reach and impact. You’ll continually explore new ways to help our team make great hiring decisions quickly, while keeping candidates excited about Check.

- Set and maintain a high performance bar for talent while moving fast. You'll keep the big picture in mind, ensuring strong long-term staffing decisions and helping us dodge negotiation traps.

- Work in the open. You'll be a public partner to hiring managers and an active voice in our recruiting channels. You stay visible and opinionated to inspire trust and confidence.

- Partner closely with the Head of People and Lead Recruiter to build creative and engaging hiring loops, 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:

- 5+ years of full cycle recruiting experience, including experience in-house in a growing tech company. Technical recruiting experience is a must, experience across other functions is a plus.

- Fluency with Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter and Juicebox.

- Strong sourcing chops, including creative and compelling outbound messaging, and structured and determined follow-up sequencing.

- Proven ability to own full-cycle recruiting on your reqs — TOFU, candidate comms, interview coordination, interviewer alignment, closing strategy, and offer management, with a stakeholder-partnership-first orientation.

- Clear, direct communication and exceptional storytelling. You're equally adept at influencing senior stakeholders and selling candidates on a vision.

- Strong judgment and the ability to maintain a high bar under time pressure — there's urgency, and then there's false urgency. You know the difference, and you can move quickly without missing the details that make or break a process.

- AI fluency as a core competency — proven ability to leverage AI tools to amplify sourcing, outreach, screening, and decision-making, while applying judgment about where AI helps and where it doesn't. We're hiring people who are strong in their domain and know how to scale that strength through AI.

- A bias toward visibility — working in the open, speaking up in cross-functional spaces, building hiring-manager confidence through engagement, not invisible reliability.

- 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.

TRAVEL & OFFICE POLICY

The Check team is distributed across the US. Roles can be remote, hybrid, or based in one of our offices in New York City or San Francisco. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons throughout year. All Checketeers gather in the spring for our annual 3-day company retreat.

For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and there are regular happy hours, game nights, and other in-person events.

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

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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.