For Jane at Stripe
A CFO for Acme's next chapter
Prepared for Jane, Chief Financial Officer at Stripe
Why Key Search
We are a focused boutique. We work on a small number of mandates at a time, and we treat each one as our own. Three things set us apart on a search like Stripe's.
Operator-led search, not transactional sourcing.
Every mandate is led personally by a partner with operating background. You get one point of contact, accountable end-to-end, with the judgement calls handled at partner level rather than passed down to a research desk.
Mapped, not posted.
We approach this as a market mapping exercise. The candidate slate comes from named, intentional outreach — not from advertising or a database export. Most names you'll meet would never have responded to a job ad.
Calibration in week one.
By the end of week one we present a calibration shortlist of three to five operators we'd interview ourselves. You give signal back, we recalibrate, and the longlist sharpens before the formal slate lands.
Let's start the search.
If this is the right fit, our standard next step is a 60-minute scoping call to align on the role specification, the market context, and the search timeline. I'll send three time options after we hear back.