Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the teamThe recruiting team seeks to build the culture of Stripe by aligning the strongest global talent to our highest impact business needs. They focus on bringing Stripe’s operating principles to life in their recruiting processes, providing the highest-quality candidate experience, and leveraging data driven storytelling to influence the business.
What you’ll doTo further this important mission, we are looking for a driven and collaborative Design Recruiter to grow and scale our global design organization. You can expect high impact and wide-ranging responsibility: owning full-cycle recruiting on niche design searches, contributing to our geo strategy with talent market insights, and delivering best-in-class candidate experience. This person must be a builder who thrives in a learning environment—unafraid to try new things, embrace new ideas, navigate ambiguity, and welcome suggestions for how we can iterate on our processes.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with senior leaders across the design organization to understand hiring objectives and develop recruiting strategies to identify top talent across various skillsets including product design, brand design, content design, design engineering, web presence design, UX research, and more.
- Help initiate creative and scalable changes to our existing recruiting processes
- Track and analyze metrics and report on hiring progress to design leadership on a regular cadence
- Focus on creating strategic plans to attract and engage design talent across different geos
- Work closely with cross-functional teams like Finance, People Ops, Benefits, Onboarding and Legal to deliver a high-quality and holistic candidate experience
Minimum requirements:
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with 4+ years of Design Recruiting experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, including in house experience
- Experience building high performing, high craft design teams and delivering an exceptional candidate experience
- A growth mindset and truly flexible. You can shift tasks and priorities when circumstances change (at a fast-growing startup, they often do)
- An active and data driven approach to problem solving; you enjoy making sense of the trends and using the insights to better your process to make it more efficient
- Proven abilities to attract passive senior candidates and build a diverse pipelines across different hiring locations
- Strong operational rigor with the ability to stay organized amidst change
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an appropriate blend of professionalism and friendliness
Skills Required
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably in-house
- Experience partnering with hiring teams throughout the recruiting process as a trusted advisor
- Ability to operate with high agency and autonomy in an ambiguous, fast-moving organization
- Proven ability to attract passive candidates and build diverse talent pipelines
- Active, data-driven approach to problem solving and process improvement
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders
Stripe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stripe and has not been reviewed or approved by Stripe.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, EAP, and mental‑health support such as therapy sessions; wellness resources are consistently highlighted across materials. Coverage breadth and depth are repeatedly positioned as a core strength.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for birthing and non‑birthing parents, fertility benefits, and adoption assistance are emphasized, making family support a standout element. Feedback suggests these programs compare favorably to common tech benchmarks.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness stipends, gym reimbursement, and onsite meals/snacks (where available) are commonly offered, with flexible lifestyle funds supporting varied needs globally. Education stipends and similar perks further bolster day‑to‑day wellbeing.
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What We Do
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
