Partner Support Team Lead

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
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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,…