Claire Stapleton (born 1985 or 1986) is an American writer and marketer known for her involvement in the 2018 Google Walkout for Real Change. She is the author of the newsletter Tech Support.

Stapleton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Stapleton began working for Google in 2007, after briefly considering a role with Teach For America, working on the internal communications team at their Mountain View, California campus.

During her communications work, Stapleton helped produce the company's weekly all-hands meeting, known as TGIF, hosted by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. She was also responsible for writing the company's talking points in weekly emails to employees. At her final TGIF in Mountain View in 2012, Page called Stapleton on stage and presented her with a wooden plaque that dubbed her "The Bard of Google".

Later, Stapleton joined YouTube's team as a marketing manager in New York City.

On November 1, 2018, Stapleton, along with 20,000 Google workers across 50 cities, walked off the job in protest of Google's contracts with The Pentagon such as Project Maven, Project Dragonfly, and Project JEDI, and the company's handling of sexual harassment allegations, including a $90 million exit package for Andy Rubin, who allegedly coerced a junior employee into sexual contact. Rubin referred to the report as a "wild exaggeration", and denies any misconduct. The employees, led by Stapleton, Meredith Whittaker, a former Google Artificial Intelligence researcher, and five others also put together a list of demands for change, including addressing what they alleged was rampant sexism and racism, getting rid of mandatory arbitration, and better pay for contractors. According to Stapleton, the events themselves were not the catalyst of their strike, but rather the TGIF that followed the news of Rubin's resignation, which she said was dismissive and ignored the report about payouts to male executives accused of sexual misconduct, though CEO Sundar Pichai and Page both reportedly apologized. Pichai also said that 48 employees had been terminated after investigations into harassment over the previous two years, none of whom received an exit package. Stapleton said the meeting sparked her to start an email list for women at the company, which she said quickly grew to more than 1,500 members.

In the days following the walkout, Google responded in support, Pichai saying, "I take this responsibility very seriously and I’m committed to making the changes we need to improve", in a memo to employees. The memo also announced concession to some of the demands, including ending forced arbitration in cases of sexual assault and sexual harassment and overhaul the process for reporting sexual misconduct. Stapleton and the other leaders acknowledged the progress in a note posted on the Google Walkout Medium account, but criticized leadership saying they, "troublingly erased [the demands] focused on racism, discrimination, and ... structural inequity", and for ignoring the request to elevate the diversity officer to the board. When asked who should be leading addressing the remaining demands, Stapleton said, "Larry and Sergey, where are they?"

In January 2019, Stapleton said she was demoted as part of a restructuring she said was vaguely communicated, losing half of her direct reports. She also said her work was reassigned to others and that her manager ignored her, and she was pushed to resign. When Stapleton attempted to press human resources about the changes to her role and her work being delegated to other people, she said that the company advised her to go on medical leave, even though she wasn't ill. Stapleton hired an attorney, prompting a re-investigation into the demotion, and said that it was "walked back ... at least on paper."