Head of Sales & Growth

Building at Check

At Check we make paying people simple. In doing that were not just building our own business were building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll were 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. Were a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

Our Team

Payroll is broken. Come fix it alongside a team thats as passionate as you are!At Check youll 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 youre ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll. Lets simplify the complex make a real impact and create a better future for businesses of every size.

The Work

As Head of Sales and Growth you will lead Checks Sales and Growth teams across the full lifecycledriving new partner acquisition and scaling post-sales growth. Youll set the vision and drive the strategy structure and execution that enable Check and our partners to grow together.

This is a strategic and hands-on role for a leader who pairs commercial thinking with product curiosity. Youll use partner and market insights to shape strategy inform the roadmap and drive meaningful growth for our partners and for Check.

In this role you will:

• Lead Checks Sales and Growth teams fostering collaboration accountability and shared success across new partner acquisition and post-sales expansion.
• Serve as executive sponsor for key prospects and partners driving engagement and alignment across the full partner lifecycle.
• Act as the voice of the partner in shaping Checks roadmapadvocating for partner needs surfacing insights and helping define the companys strategic priorities.
• Establish clarity and narrative around partner performance and pipeline ensuring internal visibility into where were winning where were at risk and what actions drive faster revenue growth.
• Translate product improvements into compelling external messaging strengthening how Check communicates new capabilities to both prospects and partners.
• Bring a CRO mindset to accelerate revenue growth balancing strategic influence with hands-on execution.

Tools for the job

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

• 8 years of experience in partnerships business development or strategic account management ideally in fintech SaaS or platform infrastructure
• A strong track record of driving joint growth initiatives and influencing product and go-to-market strategies
• A background that blends strategy and execution such as experience in management consulting product management or GTM strategy
• Experience leading and developing a high-performing team of managers and senior individual contributors across Sales and Growth
• Commercial instincts and comfort owning forecasts and performance metrics
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills that help simplify complexity for partners and internal teams
• Curiosity for technical products and how they create business value
• A collaborative grounded leadership style that balances strategy and execution

We build best when we come together on level ground.

Travel and Office Policy

The Check team is distributed across the US with offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we embrace remote work 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 fall.

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.

What we offer: (Variable)

For full-time employees Check offers company-sponsored medical dental vision short-term/long-term disability and basic life insurance coverage effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options flexible PTO and sick leave up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents flexible return-to-work 9 annual holidays a 401 (k) retirement plan and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.

The actual annual salary for this role is dependent on each candidates experience qualifications and work location:

• The expected range in San Francisco NYC LA and Seattle is between $200500 and $220550 with performance-based compensation also varying between $86000 to $96000.
• For all other locations the expected range is between $170500 and $187550 with performance-based compensation also varying between $73000 to $83000.

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.

Checkparticipates inE-Verifyand 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.Checkdoes not useE-Verifyto pre-screen applicants.