Claire Hughes Johnson
Operations executive and Stripe advisor
Claire Hughes Johnson was Stripe's Chief Operating Officer from 2014 to 2021 and spent ten years at Google before that. She wrote Scaling People.
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About Claire Hughes Johnson
Claire Hughes Johnson served as Chief Operating Officer of Stripe, a technology company building economic infrastructure for the internet, from 2014 to 2021. During those years the company grew from fewer than 200 employees to more than 7,000. Her responsibilities at various points covered sales, marketing, customer support, risk, real estate, recruiting and HR, along with business operations. Before Stripe, she spent ten years at Google, where she led several business teams. She worked on parts of Gmail, Google Apps and Consumer Operations, and held vice president roles covering AdWords sales and operations, Google Offers and the self-driving car project. She earned her undergraduate degree at Brown University and her MBA at Yale University. She has remained a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe and has served on several company boards. Her book in our catalog is Scaling People.