Lead Recruiter

About the role

The Lead Recruiter will drive hiring efforts during a critical growth phase, partnering closely with people leaders across R&D, GTM, and G&A. This role sits at the center of how we build the company.

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 to fill those seats.
• Drive sourcing, outreach, and pipeline-building campaigns that keep candidate flow rich for our highest-priority roles.
• Optimize for quality over quantity to keep efforts efficient.
• Leverage Ashby and LinkedIn Recruiter (or ramp quickly on Ashby) to amplify reach and impact.
• Scale the recruiting function as we grow from 85 → 100 → 150 FTEs and beyond, always building with ROI and stakeholder experience in mind.
• Set and maintain a high performance bar for talent while moving fast.
• Work in the open. Partner closely with the Head of People to build creative and engaging hiring loops, competitive compensation structures, effective training programs, and executive reporting capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of in-house recruiting experience across multiple disciplines (technical and non-technical), preferably in a fast-paced startup or growth-stage environment.
• AI fluency as a core competency — proven ability to leverage AI tools to amplify sourcing, outreach, screening, and decision-making, while applying judgment about where AI helps and where it doesn't.
• Fluency with Ashby and LinkedIn Recruiter (or proven ability to ramp quickly on Ashby — we recently migrated and our system is in active use).
• Proven ability to own full-cycle recruiting independently — sourcing through coordination, closing, and offer management, with a stakeholder-partnership-first orientation.
• Strong sourcing capability, including outbound outreach and pipeline building for hard-to-fill roles.
• Clear, direct communication and exceptional storytelling. You're equally adept at influencing senior stakeholders and selling candidates on a vision.
• Strong judgment and the ability to maintain a high talent bar under time pressure — there's urgency, and then there's false urgency. You know the difference.
• A bias toward visibility — working in the open, speaking up in cross-functional spaces, building hiring-manager confidence through engagement, not invisible reliability.
• Comfort with ambiguity — you're comfortable laying the track when the train is already moving, and always helping our team move faster without sacrificing the integrity of our process.

Qualifications

• Comfort with ambiguity — you're comfortable laying the track when the train is already moving, and always helping our team move faster without sacrificing the integrity of our process.

Skills

• Strong sourcing capability, including outbound outreach and pipeline building for hard-to-fill roles.
• Clear, direct communication and exceptional storytelling. You're equally adept at influencing senior stakeholders and selling candidates on a vision.
• Strong judgment and the ability to maintain a high talent bar under time pressure — there's urgency, and then there's false urgency. You know the difference.
• A bias toward visibility — working in the open, speaking up in cross-functional spaces, building hiring-manager confidence through engagement, not invisible reliability.

Benefits

• Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.
• We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

Pay

Competitive salary and equity package.

Schedule

Full-time position.