The posting, in Stripe's own words
archived Sep 2, 2026About Stripe
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of all sizes—from new startups to public companies like Amazon and Salesforce—use our software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. By helping businesses accept payments from anywhere in the world and accelerating the economic shift from offline to online, we aim to increase the GDP of the internet.
About the team
Stripe’s Leadership Recruiting Team (LRT) is a high-performing group of strategic and creative problem solvers. We are passionate about finding and hiring the very best leaders and experts from around the globe to help drive the next arc of Stripe’s growth.
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What you’ll do
In this role, you will be directly responsible for partnering with senior stakeholders to identify, attract, assess, and hire individuals for leadership roles across the company.
Responsibilities
Strategically partner with executives to hire top talent for Stripe’s highest priority engineering leadership roles Define, design, and implement recruiting processes and search engagements for a variety of senior leadership roles. This includes understanding and mapping the talent landscape, internal calibration and referrals, and matching those data points with the external talent supply Manage end-to-end leadership-level searches from inception of candidate contact to onboarding, including research, outreach strategies, candidate experience, negotiations, partnering with HR for successful onboarding, and communicating with stakeholders along the way Collaborate with cross-functional partners, such as People Partners, Compensation, and Business Leads, to align hiring goals with business needs Develop competency-based interviews that surface a candidate’s full range of capabilities, explore their aspirations, and gain insight into how their experience will apply to a leadership role at Stripe Foster trust-based relationships with candidates, gaining a close understanding of their requirements and concerns. Serve as a skilled problem solver, facilitator and coach in final negotiations Utilize team-wide systems and tools to capture current market, client, and candidate information to facilitate both the search process and market intelligence initiatives Contribute to a team that values creative ideas and constant improvement. Be a contributing member of the recruiting team that effectively embodies and promotes the culture and values of Stripe. A quick guide to Stripe’s culture is located here