Head of Sales & Growth

The Work

As Head of Sales & Growth you will lead Check’s Sales and Growth teams across the full lifecycle—driving new partner acquisition and scaling post-sales growth. You’ll set the vision and drive the strategy structure and execution that enable Check and our partners to grow together.

This is a strategic and hands-on role for a leader who pairs commercial thinking with product curiosity. You’ll use partner and market insights to shape strategy inform the roadmap and drive meaningful growth for our partners and for Check.

In this role you will:

• Lead Check’s Sales and Growth teams fostering collaboration accountability and shared success across new partner acquisition and post-sales expansion.

• Serve as executive sponsor for key prospects and partners driving engagement and alignment across the full partner lifecycle.

• Act as the voice of the partner in shaping Check’s roadmap—advocating for partner needs surfacing insights and helping define the company’s strategic priorities.

• Establish clarity and narrative around partner performance and pipeline ensuring internal visibility into where we’re winning where we’re at risk and what actions drive faster revenue growth.

• Translate product improvements into compelling external messaging strengthening how Check communicates new capabilities to both prospects and partners.

• Bring a CRO mindset to accelerate revenue growth balancing strategic influence with hands-on execution.

Tools for the job

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

• 8+ years of experience in partnerships business development or strategic account management ideally in fintech SaaS or platform infrastructure

• A strong track record of driving joint growth initiatives and influencing product and go-to-market strategies

• A background that blends strategy and execution such as experience in management consulting product management or GTM strategy

• Experience leading and developing a high-performing team of managers and senior individual contributors across Sales and Growth

• Commercial instincts and comfort owning forecasts and performance metrics

• Strong analytical and storytelling skills that help simplify complexity for partners and internal teams

• Curiosity for technical products and how they create business value

• A collaborative grounded leadership style that balances strategy and execution

We build best when we come together on level ground.

Travel and Office Policy

The Check team is distributed across the US with offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we embrace remote work time together in person is where we do our best work. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team off-sites events and hackathons a couple of times a year! We expect all employees to attend our annual 3-day company retreat in the fall.

For our in-office and hybrid employees our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the team hosts regular happy hours game nights etc.

What we offer: (Variable)

For full-time employees Check offers company-sponsored medical dental vision short-term/long-term disability and basic life insurance coverage effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options flexible PTO and sick leave up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents flexible return-to-work 9 annual holidays a 401 (k) retirement plan and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.

The actual annual salary for this role is dependent on each candidate’s experience qualifications and work location:

• The expected range in San Francisco NYC LA and Seattle is between $200500 and $220550 with performance-based compensation also varying between $86000 to $96000.

• For all other locations the expected range is between $170500 and $187550 with performance-based compensation also varying between $73000 to $83000.