Project Manager, Total Rewards

Job Description

Stripe's Total Rewards programs span compensation, benefits, equity, internal mobility/immigration, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), each with cross-functional dependencies, regulatory stakes, and direct impact on the Stripes they affect.

You will own high-priority Total Rewards projects and programs end to end. You will work closely with our Benefits, Compensation, Equity, Talent Mobility, and M&A pillars, building expertise in how these programs work and what it takes to land them well.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project management for high-profile cyclical and transformational Total Rewards projects, from intake and scoping through go-live and handoff to program owners
• Advise and embed with project teams across the Total Rewards and People portfolio, raising the quality bar and building PM capability across the extended team
• Build subject matter expertise across Benefits, Compensation, Equity, Talent Mobility, and M&A , becoming a reliable strategic thought partner to pillar teams on program decisions
• Build, automate, and continuously improve the infrastructure that makes program management repeatable and scalable
• Leverage AI tools in your daily work and the team's workflows, using them to accelerate synthesis, drafting, stakeholder communications, and documentation
• Drive cross-functional alignment across People and key partner functions, creating shared visibility into priorities, dependencies, and blockers
• Tackle complex, ambiguous program questions with rigor and independence, owning work from problem definition through final recommendation
• Surface patterns and gaps across the program portfolio, translating observations into structured analysis and recommendations for People leadership

Requirements

• 7+ years of People project, program, or operations management experience, including at least 3 years driving multi-stakeholder, cross-functional programs end to end
• A track record of building from scratch: you've created processes, playbooks, or program infrastructure where none existed before
• Excellent written communication: you can produce an executive update, a stakeholder decision memo, and a practitioner playbook with equal fluency
• Strong stakeholder management across senior cross-functional partners
• AI expertise: you default to AI tools for synthesis, drafting, analysis, and communications
• Analytical fluency: you can work with data to build a credible narrative, identify patterns across a program portfolio, and make recommendations grounded in evidence
• A users-first mindset: you obsess over the Stripe employee experience and the operator experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with change management frameworks and judgment about when to apply structured change management vs. lighter-touch approaches
• Experience building and deploying enablement materials or training resources for cross-functional teams
• Experience in Total Rewards, People Operations, or an adjacent HR domain
• Familiarity with PM and collaboration tools
• Familiarity with Total Rewards or HR systems
• PMP, Lean/Six Sigma, or comparable structured-program training