Lead Recruiter
Leads full-cycle recruiting for Engineering, GTM, and G&A teams at a fast-growing payroll startup. Partners with hiring managers to shape roles, source top talent using AI tools like Ashby, and maintain high hiring standards during rapid scaling. Requires 5+ years recruiting experience and strong stakeholder influence.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across Engineering, GTM, and G&A with an outcomes-focused mentality. Partner with hiring managers to define needs, clarify what great looks like, and engage with top talent.
- Be a true partner to hiring managers from day one: shape roles, drive intake conversations, challenge assumptions, and align teams on Check's standards.
- Run sourcing, outreach, and pipeline-building campaigns that keep candidate flow rich for highest-priority roles, optimizing for quality over quantity.
- Drive recruiting operations within Ashby, leveraging AI-augmented sourcing, search, and pipeline tools.
- Set and maintain a high performance bar for talent while moving fast, ensuring strong long-term staffing decisions.
- Work in the open as a public partner to hiring managers and an active voice in recruiting channels.
- Partner closely with the Head of People to build creative hiring loops, competitive compensation structures, effective training programs, and executive reporting.
Requirements
- 5+ years of in-house recruiting experience across multiple disciplines (technical and non-technical), preferably in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environment.
- AI fluency as a core competency — proven ability to leverage AI tools for sourcing, outreach, screening, and decision-making.
- Fluency with Ashby and LinkedIn Recruiter (or proven ability to ramp quickly on Ashby).
- Proven ability to own full-cycle recruiting independently — sourcing through coordination, closing, and offer management.
- Strong sourcing capability, including outbound outreach and pipeline building for hard-to-fill roles.
- Clear, direct communication and exceptional storytelling; adept at influencing senior stakeholders and selling candidates.
- Strong judgment to maintain high talent bar under time pressure.
- Bias toward visibility — working in the open, speaking up in cross-functional spaces.
- Comfort with ambiguity.
Compensation
- San Francisco, NYC, LA, Seattle: $144,000 - $158,400
- All other locations: $122,500 - $155,000
- Stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 9 annual holidays, generous paid parental leave, 401k, $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile, medical/dental/vision/disability/life insurance.
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