You excel at strategic planning and are methodical in mapping talent landscapes, which is critical for defining search engagements.
Your ability to distill complex information into organized formats aligns perfectly with the Craft and Beauty value.
You are adept at building trust-based relationships by focusing on logical problem-solving, facilitating negotiations.
Your long-term vision helps you align hiring goals with business needs effectively.
You may find managing multiple senior relationships emotionally draining, requiring effort to show warmth.
You may undervalue the creative, out-of-the-box sourcing methods needed to find passive candidates.
Your direct communication style could sometimes come across as blunt to sensitive stakeholders.
You might resist the high level of collaboration and interpersonal coaching expected in this role.
Focusing on efficiency could lead you to overlook the importance of candidate emotional experience.

Who we are

About 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.

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

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

10+ years proven executive search experience within the technology industry
Proven experience in identifying, engaging, and closing senior-level passive candidates
Outstanding sourcing skills and ability to think ‘outside the box.’
Experience partnering with team and hiring managers, including the executive team.
Prior use of talent market insights and data to influence decisions within the leadership groups and cross-functional teams
Demonstrated track record of building working relationships with leaders and cross-functional partners - we value a Users First approach to executive search, ensuring a positive experience for candidates and hiring managers alike.
Evidence of creating and maintaining positive candidate experiences
Ability to distill complex information into a consumable and organized format with a focus on content, tone, and structure - we value Craft and Beauty across all of our outputs.
Ability to take ownership and effectively manage time and process across roles

Preferred qualifications

Experience in both search firms and in-house

Senior Leadership Recruiter