Tax Operations Manager

Building at Check

At Check, we make paying people simple. In doing that, 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 out the full story | Tune in.

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.

The Work

At Check, we make paying and filing taxes seamless, enabling our partners to build best-in-class payroll businesses. The Tax Operations team sits at the core of this mission, turning complex tax workflows into reliable, repeatable processes that power partner success.

As a Tax Operations Manager, you’ll lead the charge in scaling operations, optimizing workflows, and delivering seamless payroll experiences. You’ll guide your team, oversee key processes, and work cross-functionally to tackle tax challenges, improve systems, and enhance efficiency while staying hands-on.

This role is for a leader who thrives on ownership, navigates complexity with ease, and is committed to building high-performing teams. You’ll shape tax operations, develop talent, and ensure our partners can run payroll seamlessly and compliantly.

In this role, you will:

• Lead with ownership and mentorship to drive team success, build capabilities, and cultivate a culture of growth and innovation.
• Own tax compliance, ensuring accuracy, regulatory adherence, and seamless alignment with industry standards. Proactively update filing specifications and systems to stay ahead of changes.
• Take charge of complex tax escalations, using your expertise to solve challenges, lead root cause analysis, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive efficiency and enhance systems.
• Simplify and optimize tax operations, identifying process improvements that scale effectively while maintaining accuracy. Use data to continuously improve and drive operational excellence.
• Collaborate with Payroll Operations, R&D, and Revenue teams to streamline workflows and advocate for product enhancements that ensure compliance and elevate partner success.
• Build a high-performance team driven by feedback and aligned with Check’s goals, creating an environment of knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and innovation.

Tools for the Job

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

• 5+ years of experience in tax operations, compliance, payroll, or enterprise-level implementations, with a strong understanding of tax filing, remittance workflows, and compliance regulations.
• Proven leadership experience in managing teams, developing talent, and driving operational success.
• Expertise in tax filing regulations, remittance workflows, and compliance best practices.
• Experience driving process improvement initiatives, implementing scalable solutions, and leveraging data to optimize operations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and executive decision-making.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities, with a strategic mindset focused on execution and impact.
• Partner-first approach, ensuring a seamless experience for partners by maintaining a high bar for accuracy, efficiency, and service.

Travel and Office Policy:

We build best when we come together on level ground.

The Check team is distributed across the US, and we have 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 offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year! We expect all employees to attend our annual 3-day company retreat in the Spring. 

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: 

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, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.

The actual annual salary for this role depends on each candidate’s experience, qualifications, and work location. Most new hires are placed near the midpoint of this range to ensure fairness with our existing team’s compensation.

• The expected range in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle is between $162,300 and $178,530.
• The expected range for all other locations is between $137,955 and $151,750.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline.

Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

Check participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U.S. Check does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.