Barbara Matthews

Chief People Officer, Remote

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

About

20+ years Global HR experience from scaling start ups to fully ramped organisations with full cycle People infrastructure and distributed teams. Passionate about working in a fast paced industry, supporting scale across multiple regions, coaching and enabling our leaders to drive impact in the industry and within their teams and truly partnering with the business to drive it forward. Experience across the People spectrum in Retail, Tech, MNC and FinTech industries. Currently heading up the People team supporting employees across the globe.

Experience

  • Chief People Officer at Remote
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • International Head of HR, EMEA & APAC, Stripe at Stripe
    2016 - May 2023 · 7 yrs 5 mos

    Built the HR function in EMEA and APAC from scratch, with 3 of my years covering teams in the US and a global role This vast area includes partnering with business leaders on the growth of their organisations, managing the global HR Operations team, building initiatives around benefits, performance management, employee engagement, talent management, manager and leadership development, recognition, employee engagement, learning and development, employee relations and much more!

  • Google (12 yrs 5 mos)
    • HR Business Partner, Google For Work
      Oct 2013 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs

      Talent Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Employee Relations Leadership Development & Coaching

    • Global People Programs Manager (supporting Sales)
      Sep 2009 - Oct 2013 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      - Rolling out global HR programs that impact the Google sales organization (Recognition, Innovation, Career Development, Compensation & Performance etc). - Building out & supporting HR and Staffing globally through: 1.Employee Engagement Programs 2.Change Management 3.Project Management 4.Process Improvements/Working Smarter programs 5.Communications (continuously innovating on what we are communicating and how) And much more!

    • Associate Manager, EMEA HR&Staffing
      Jan 2009 - Aug 2009 · 8 mos

  • Staff Trainer & HR Assistant at Super Value
    Jun 2002 - Jan 2004 · 1 yr 8 mos