Staff Product Manager

For this role, we are seeking an entrepreneurial, staff product manager who will have a hand in building Check’s most critical infrastructure to run payroll and file taxes for the thousands of businesses and workers on top of our platform.  This product manager will serve as a leader who deeply understands our technology stack, how payroll and tax works and how to design and grow our infrastructure to be the most reliable and efficient in the entire payroll industry. They will work closely with Check leadership, engineers, internal operators and our partners to deliver a high quality product that will be responsible for tax filing and payments for thousands of companies on a quarterly basis.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as editor of Check’s Tax product with a goal to make it reliable, accurate and intuitively designed
• Drive Check’s product execution with an opinionated perspective, seeking to push new boundaries in Payroll and ensure we’re solving the right customer problems with urgency
• Work closely with experts across our business, engineering and payroll operations to understand how our Tax processing and architecture works
• Deeply understand payroll and tax requirements, including compliance and regulation standards, to level up the reliability, efficiency and scalability of our most important infrastructure
• Working with engineering and operations, develop a detailed roadmap for how we will scale our core Tax infrastructure

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

• 4+ years of experience in product management for technology companies serving enterprise businesses. 10 years of cumulative work experience
• Experience in working in very complex domains with detailed regulatory and operational requirements. Payroll and tax expertise is not required, but is a bonus
• Experience leading large, cross-functional product initiatives that spanned multiple quarters and drove significant business impact
• Experience in working in situations with high ambiguity
• Passion for diving into technical and operational details and becoming an expert in your domain
• A deep passion for the customers you serve and a high standard for execution
• An ability to work with a variety of stakeholders of varying background to drive alignment and positive outcomes 
• Willingness and ability to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the fall
• Willingness and ability to travell approximately one work week per quarter for managers

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 your 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 and 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.

The expected annual salary for this role is between $200,000 and $252,000 dependent upon each candidate’s unique experience and qualifications.