Project Manager, Global Expansion

About the role

Stripe seeks a Project Manager, Global Expansion to own the People infrastructure for new entities and mergers and acquisitions. You will translate ambiguous, multi-stakeholder decisions into structured programs that remain compliant and resilient at scale. The role requires building employment infrastructure from scratch where none exists and delivering against hard deadlines without disrupting existing teams. You will act as the central orchestration point for complex, cross-functional initiatives that define how work gets done in new legal environments. Success in this position means creating scalable frameworks that allow Stripe to operate with local compliance and global consistency simultaneously. You will partner closely with People leadership to ensure every program supports the employee experience as much as it supports business velocity. The work demands comfort with ambiguity and the ability to construct order from evolving requirements and shifting priorities.

Key facts

What you will do

• Manage intake and scoping for global employment readiness, defining requirements in partnership with People leadership.
• Coordinate build workflows across payroll, tax, legal, and benefits teams to ensure alignment on timelines and expectations.
• Establish review checkpoints to validate regulatory compliance and employee experience at each stage of the entity lifecycle.
• Ship entity launches on strict timelines and manage post-launch handoffs to People, Legal, and Finance functions.
• Lead entity-related workstreams in mergers and acquisitions, advising on retain, merge, or wind-down decisions and managing employer-of-record to entity transitions.
• Serve as the primary coordination point across People functions, including Total Rewards, People Systems, and People Operations, as well as cross-functional leads in Payroll, Tax, Legal, Finance, and Strategy.
• Build and continuously improve the infrastructure that makes entity management and employment readiness scalable, including intake forms, project plan templates, handoff checklists, standard operating procedures, playbooks for common jurisdictions, compliance trackers, and retrospective documentation.
• Surface cross-entity patterns, systemic risks, and program coverage gaps to enable People leadership with structured insights and recommendations.
• Translate ambiguous, multi-stakeholder decisions into structured programs that remain compliant and resilient at scale.
• Build employment infrastructure from scratch where none exists and deliver against hard deadlines without disrupting existing teams.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders on hard deadlines, surfacing dependencies and resolving blockers to keep programs on track.
• Hold accountability against timelines while actively protecting the employee experience throughout each transition.
• Coordinate employer-of-record shifts and embed entity timelines into broader merger and acquisition deal plans.
• Own requirements gathering and readiness gates across functions, ensuring alignment before execution begins.
• Manage approvals and handoffs to Legal, Finance, and Payroll teams, coordinating reviews and sign-offs on schedule.

Requirements

You must handle intake and scoping for global employment programs, translating business needs into detailed requirements. You own requirements gathering and readiness gates across functions, ensuring alignment before execution begins. You manage approvals and handoffs to Legal, Finance, and Payroll teams, coordinating reviews and sign-offs on schedule. You lead communications for every entity lifecycle transition, ensuring consistent messaging for executive sponsors and impacted employees. You coordinate mergers and acquisitions entity integrations and employer-of-record shifts, embedding entity timelines into broader deal plans. You build infrastructure such as intake forms, project templates, and compliance trackers that support repeated use across jurisdictions. You partner with cross-functional stakeholders on hard deadlines, surfacing dependencies and resolving blockers to keep programs on track. You hold accountability against timelines while actively protecting the employee experience throughout each transition.

Nice to have

Experience with global payroll, statutory benefits, and equity registration across multiple jurisdictions. Knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks relevant to employment and taxation. Familiarity with intake forms, project plans, and standard operating procedure documentation.

Skills and tools

Systems: Greenhouse, BambooHR, Jira, Slack, Google Workspace

Data: Microsoft Excel, Looker, Tableau

Payroll providers: Gusto, Rippling, Oyster, Remote, Atlas

Legal entity types: Employer of Record, W-2 employees, 1099 contractors, subsidiary entities

About the company

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.