Manager, Embedded Setup

Position Overview

Check is seeking a Manager of the Embedded Setup team to lead the transition from delivering setup as a service to enabling partners to own it themselves. This role involves managing the team responsible for onboarding new employers through Check’s partners, balancing high-quality, timely service delivery with building a training-first, partner-enablement model. The ideal candidate will define and execute strategy for partner enablement, oversee day-to-day setup operations, and collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Partner Success to improve processes and reduce manual work through tooling and automation.

Company Information

About Check: At Check, we make paying people simple. We're not just building our own business—we’re building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll, we’re redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses to launch, grow, and thrive. Check is far more than just API infrastructure; we’re a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

Our Team: Payroll is broken. Come fix it alongside a team that’s as passionate as you are! At Check, you'll 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 you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll. Let’s simplify the complex, make a real impact, and create a better future for businesses of every size.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead the Embedded Setup team responsible for delivering employer setups via Check’s partners, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and exceptional service.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop and execute the transition strategy from Check-run setups to partner-owned implementations, with a strong focus on training and enablement.
• Design and deliver scalable partner training programs, including live sessions, asynchronous resources, shadowing frameworks, and QA support.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve setup tooling and automation (e.g., Flatfile integrations, External Payroll API, Console workflows).
• Define and maintain high-quality SOPs, playbooks, training guides, and repeatable migration templates.
• Build strong relationships with partners, understanding their needs and tailoring enablement plans accordingly.
• Analyze team performance and partner outcomes to identify opportunities for operational efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and development of Setup team members, fostering a culture of excellence, adaptability, and partner-centricity.
• Act as a strategic voice in planning discussions to ensure Embedded Setup aligns with Check’s overall growth and product roadmap.

Requirements

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

• 5+ years of experience in implementation, operations, or related fields, with at least 2+ years in a people-management or team-lead role.
• Experience in payroll implementation or operations strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of payroll complexity, including multi-EIN configurations, benefit taxability, retroactive pay, and data imports.
• Experience building and delivering effective training and enablement programs to external partners or customers.
• Strategic mindset, with the ability to define and execute a vision while managing day-to-day operations.
• Technically fluent across a wide range of operational tools, and comfortable learning and teaching new technologies like APIs, Flatfile, and native tooling.
• Partner-first mindset.

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