Partner Support Team Lead

Check; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Stock options

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

401k

Home internet stipend

Phone stipend

Job summary

Check is transforming payroll infrastructure in the United States, offering roles that blend hands-on partner support with leadership responsibilities. The Partner Support Lead will resolve payroll, tax, and technical issues while guiding a growing team to deliver exceptional partner experiences.

You'll collaborate across Engineering, Product, Tax, and Risk to ensure timely resolutions, maintain queue health, and drive improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a client- or partner-facing role, supporting customers, partners, or technical products.
• 3+ years working at a payroll provider, payroll platform, HR tech, fintech, or payroll knowledge-focused role.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing a customer-facing Support or Operations team.
• Experience managing team performance against SLAs, quality, workload, or other operational metrics.
• Strong experience handling complex customer or partner escalations and navigating ambiguous situations.
• Strong understanding of U.S. payroll and tax concepts, with the ability to apply that knowledge to complex partner issues.
• Experience working cross-functionally with technical and operational teams to resolve complex issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ownership mindset.
• Experience improving documentation, workflows, or support processes; enterprise/large accounts a plus.
• Experience using ticketing systems (Zendesk preferred).
• Willingness to attend annual company offsite in spring.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on partner support and efficiently resolve tickets with accuracy and compliance.
• Own complex partner and enterprise escalations, guiding cross-functional teams to resolution.
• Drive cross-functional resolution with Engineering, Product, Tax, Risk, and other groups.
• Manage day-to-day queue health, prioritizing urgent issues and maintaining SLAs.
• Coach teammates on complex problems and promote independent problem-solving.
• Build trusted partner relationships with enterprise accounts and stakeholders.
• Surface and implement improvements to processes and workflows.
• Lead and develop the Support team with clear expectations and feedback.
• Monitor team performance, quality, and partner experience; uphold high standards.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Payroll knowledge (US)

Team leadership

SLA & metrics management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong written and verbal comms

Documentation/Process improvement

Escalation management

Zendesk or ticketing systems

Tools

Zendesk

Job description

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!

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.

About Partner Support Team Lead

The Support team plays a critical role in keeping payroll running for thousands of businesses and millions of workers by supporting the platforms that build payroll products on top of Check's infrastructure. When questions arise or something doesn't behave as expected, we investigate what happened, explain it clearly, and drive toward a solution.

As a Partner Support Lead, you'll serve as both a senior Support operator and a people leader. You'll lead and develop members of the Support team while remaining close to the work—regularly working directly with partners to resolve support issues, answering partner inquiries, investigating complex payroll and technical problems, and serving as a senior escalation point when issues require deeper investigation or judgment.

You'll work closely with the Head of Support and Manager of Support, as well as Engineering, Product, Tax, Risk, and other teams across Check, to maintain a high bar for partner experience, develop the team's capabilities, and help the team operate effectively. This role requires someone who can balance day-to-day team leadership with hands‑on partner support, strong judgment on complex issues, and the ability to drive resolution across teams.

In this role, you will:

• Provide hands-on partner support. Regularly manage and resolve support tickets, respond directly to partner inquiries, and investigate payroll, tax, and technical issues with a high degree of accuracy and attention to compliance.

• Own complex partner and enterprise escalations. Investigate high-impact payroll, tax, and technical issues, provide expert guidance to partners, coordinate with the appropriate teams across Check, and drive issues toward resolution with urgency, accuracy, and ownership.

• Drive cross-functional resolution. Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Tax, Risk, and other teams to investigate and resolve complex partner issues. Provide clear context, advocate for partner needs, and keep partners and internal stakeholders aligned through resolution.

• Manage day-to-day queue health. Help prioritize work, ensure urgent issues are addressed, and keep tickets moving while balancing volume, SLAs, quality, and team capacity.

• Coach through complex problems. Help teammates navigate difficult or ambiguous issues while developing their ability to investigate and solve problems independently.

• Build trusted partner relationships. Support enterprise and strategic partners through complex issues and model empathy, transparency, urgency, and ownership for the team.

• Surface and support improvements. Identify recurring issues, workflow gaps, and quality trends; bring recommendations to Support leadership; and help implement agreed-upon improvements.

• Lead and develop the Support team. Set clear expectations, provide coaching and feedback, support career development, and help team members strengthen their payroll knowledge, investigative skills, and judgment.

• Own team performance and quality. Monitor workload, SLAs, quality, and partner experience, identify gaps, and hold the team accountable to a high standard.
  

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

• 5+ years in a client- or partner-facing role, supporting customers, partners, or technical products.

• 3+ years working at a payroll provider, payroll platform, HR technology company, fintech company, or in a role requiring payroll knowledge to solve customer problems.

• Experience leading, coaching, or developing a customer-facing Support, Operations, or similar team.

• Experience managing team performance against SLAs, quality, workload, or other operational metrics.

• Strong experience handling complex customer or partner escalations and navigating ambiguous situations with sound judgment.

• Strong understanding of U.S. payroll and tax concepts, with the ability to apply that knowledge to complex partner issues.

• Strong investigative, organizational, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage a high volume of work while maintaining accuracy and quality.

• Experience working cross-functionally with technical and operational teams to resolve complex customer or partner issues.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong ownership mindset and focus on delivering an exceptional partner experience.

• Experience improving documentation, workflows, or Support processes; experience supporting enterprise or strategic accounts preferred.

• Experience using ticketing or case management systems (Zendesk preferred).

• Willingness and availability to attend our annual 3 day company offsite each spring.

What we offer:

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

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.