Partner Support Team Lead

OpenKrill; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Flexible PTO and sick leave

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Check is building a new generation of embedded payroll APIs and partner support. The Partner Support Lead role combines senior operational work with people leadership to serve enterprise partners, resolve payroll and tax issues, and drive improvements across Check’s platform.

You’ll lead a team, balance day‑to‑day support with strategic initiatives, and collaborate across Engineering, Tax, and Product to maintain an exceptional partner experience.

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 or fintech with payroll knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on partner support. Regularly manage and resolve tickets, respond to partner inquiries, and investigate payroll, tax, and technical issues with accuracy and compliance.
• Own complex partner and enterprise escalations. Investigate high‑impact issues, guide partners, coordinate with Check teams, and drive resolution with urgency and ownership.
• Drive cross‑functional resolution by partnering with Engineering, Product, Tax, Risk, and other teams to resolve complex partner issues and align stakeholders.
• Manage day‑to‑day queue health, prioritize work, ensure urgent issues are addressed, and balance volume with SLAs and quality.
• Coach through complex problems, developing teammates’ ability to investigate and solve independently.
• Build trusted partner relationships by supporting enterprise accounts with empathy, transparency, urgency, and ownership.
• Surface improvements by identifying recurring issues and workflow gaps and proposing fixes to leadership.
• Lead and develop the Support team with clear expectations, coaching, and opportunities for growth.

Skills

Client-facing

Payroll knowledge

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Issue escalation

Ownership mindset

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! 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

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.

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.