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Barbara Matthews

Barbara Matthews

Chief People Officer at Remote with 20+ years of global HR experience across Google, Stripe, and Remote.

Jul 29, 2026

1:53
[laughs] Wow.
1:53
So they didn't let me after those three weeks.
1:56
But I was the first recruitment coordinator.
1:58
So started in, in talent acquisition, and was the first recruitment coordinator for EMEA and helped build that organization.
2:04
And then one of the things that was really quite pivotal to me was around the time of the recession in 2008.
2:10
So I w- I was moving up in the world of recruiting and had to make my team redundant in 2008.
2:16
Now, my role, uh, they moved me into our people op space, so I got exposed to another area of people, and then I moved into a programs area, and then finally moved into a HRVP area, which was, as it turned out, my dream role.

17 MINS LATER

19:16
Yeah.

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