Business Recruiter (Fixed Term Contract)

Stripe; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial infrastructure platform in Greater London seeks a consultative recruiter to enhance its corporate functions in EMEA. This role emphasizes strategic hiring and delivering a top-notch candidate experience. The ideal candidate will leverage over 4 years of recruiting expertise, ensuring alignment with hiring teams and maintaining a robust candidate pipeline. With responsibilities spanning full-cycle recruiting and partnership across teams, this fixed-term position offers a dynamic work environment filled with growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in-house.
• Proven abilities to attract passive candidates.
• Strong capacity for communication and influencing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversee full-cycle recruiting and shape hiring strategies.
• Partner with stakeholders to meet hiring objectives.
• Build and maintain a healthy candidate pipeline.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting experience

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ability to handle ambiguity

Data-driven problem solving

Tools

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Sourcing and CRM tools

Job description

Who we are

About Stripe

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.

What you’ll do

To further this important mission, we are looking for a consultative and creative recruiter to grow and scale our corporate functions (Core) teams across EMEA. Our Core functions focus on optimizing internal operations, ensuring efficiency, and driving strategic initiatives that enable the company to thrive. In this role, you will have significant impact and wide-ranging responsibilities: overseeing full-cycle recruiting, shaping hiring strategies, and delivering a best-in-class candidate experience. The ideal candidate will be a builder who excels in a dynamic, learning-oriented environment— eager to try new approaches, embrace innovative ideas, and welcome feedback on how we can continuously improve our recruiting processes. This is a 11 month fixed-term contract.

Responsibilities

• Partner with multiple internal stakeholders with varying priorities to understand their hiring objectives and drive recruiting strategies to hit headcount goals
• Partner closely with recruiting analytics to ensure accurate reporting of hiring progress back to the business
• Build and drive cross-functional partnerships with compensation, human resources, finance and others to scale hiring across Stripe
• Consistently generate a healthy pipeline of high quality candidates by driving initiatives across branding, events, and employee referral channels
• Provide timely reporting of key metrics and insights to drive decisions and improve processes
  

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

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience (in-house experience strongly preferred)
• Experience partnering with hiring teams throughout the recruiting process, acting as an effective hiring partner and trusted advisor
• High agency, can handle ambiguity in a fast-moving organization, and thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Proven abilities to attract passive candidates and build a diverse pipelines
• 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders internally and externally

Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), such as Greenhouse, Lever, or similar platforms
• Experience leveraging sourcing and CRM tools (e.g., Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter) to build and manage talent pipelines
• Strong working knowledge of recruiting analytics and reporting tools to drive data-informed hiring strategies
• Familiarity with scheduling, communication, and collaboration tools (e.g., GoodTime, Slack, G Suite)
• Ability to quickly adopt new recruiting technologies and optimize workflows for scale