Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Global People Leader | SaaS Startup Culture Builder | Scalable HR with Heart Strategic and commercially minded People executive with 12+ years leading organizational scale, AI transformation, and global workforce strategy across venture-backed and transformation-stage companies. Trusted advisor to CEOs, executive teams, and boards on organizational design, workforce planning, executive leadership, compensation strategy, AI adoption, and operating model evolution. Known for helping companies navigate inflection points by aligning talent strategy, organizational structure, and leadership capability to business growth. Deep experience building and modernizing People infrastructure across globally distributed organizations spanning the U.S., Israel, India, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. Brings a differentiated combination of executive People leadership, operational rigor, and AI-native transformation expertise. Proven track record improving organizational effectiveness, accelerating delivery velocity, strengthening accountability, scaling global teams, and embedding AI-first ways of working across distributed organizations. Specialties: People Strategy • Organizational Design • AI Transformation • Workforce Planning • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Compensation Strategy • Performance Management • Succession Planning • Global HR Operations • International Expansion • Organizational Effectiveness • AI Governance & Policy • Change Management • Talent Strategy • Headcount & Budget Planning • Location Strategy • Employee Relations • People Analytics • Distributed Teams • GTM Expansion Support • Operational Scale • HR Systems Transformation • Culture Transformation • Executive Partnership • VP of People, Chief People Officer, AI Transformation, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Design, Workforce Planning, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Compensation Strategy, Succession Planning, Global HR Operations, AI Governance, Distributed Teams, Enterprise Growth, GTM Expansion, People Analytics, Executive Partnership, Organizational Scale, Talent Strategy, Operational Excellence, Change Management, Performance Management
Lead People strategy for A.Team as the business evolves from a talent marketplace into an AI-native systems integrator, partnering closely with the CEO, executive leadership team, and board on organizational design, culture, workforce strategy, and business transformation. Own global People strategy across a distributed organization operating in 22 countries, aligning workforce planning, organizational structure, leadership capability, and operating rhythms to support enterprise expansion, AI delivery capability, and GTM growth. Partner directly with the executive team to redesign organizational structure, clarify ownership, strengthen accountability, and evolve leadership operating models during a critical stage of business transformation. Lead workforce planning, budget strategy, compensation design, and succession planning efforts to align talent investment and organizational capability with business priorities and growth targets. Increased employee eNPS by 8 points while reducing regrettable attrition and strengthening performance standards, management accountability, and leadership consistency across the organization. Built and implemented AI-native People workflows that improved talent velocity, accelerated feedback cycles, increased operational consistency, and reduced bias through more real-time performance and manager enablement systems. Redesigned onboarding and manager enablement programs to improve assimilation, delivery readiness, and cross-functional effectiveness for globally distributed teams. Lead AI capability-building initiatives for managers and employees, embedding practical AI adoption into day-to-day workflows and helping teams operate more effectively in an AI-first environment. Modernized the People technology ecosystem Support enterprise growth initiatives by strengthening organizational readiness, improving delivery velocity, and building scalable leadership and operating practices across the business.
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Built and led the global People function during DeleteMe’s transition from a Series A startup to a growth-stage SaaS company. Partnered directly with the CEO and leadership team to scale the workforce from 50 to 200+ employees across 5+ countries, while maintaining a top-decile employee engagement score (95% satisfaction, +15% eNPS). Key Highlights: Designed and executed a full global People strategy across HR, Talent, DEI, Compensation, Leadership Development, and Performance Management. Opened a fully compliant HR subsidiary in India to support international expansion and regional talent acquisition. Expanded recruiting operations into LATAM and EMEA, ensuring localized compliance and building scalable hiring pipelines. Coached and developed first-time and senior executives, improving cross-functional leadership capabilities and organizational resilience. Launched competency-driven performance frameworks that increased management effectiveness and internal mobility. Increased global DEI representation by 20% and embedded inclusion into all stages of the employee lifecycle. Architected a remote-first culture of ownership, trust, and transparent communication across geographically distributed teams.
Identified and coached challenging areas for teammates- based on performance feedback, as well as growth areas teammates wanted to target Creation of onboarding for our team supporting removal of roadblocks and scalability for the team that was in hyper-growth mode Establishment of recruiting in a new country (Canada) to support the aggressive hiring of Meta Led a team of recruiters on ramping up and executing recruiting strategy, including capacity planning and recruiting techniques Supported scaling a team by 700% in a six-month time frame Program managed early career conferences: Point of contact, resource allocation, training, feedback mechanisms, communication channel creation, etc. Creation and co-lead of a local group of Charlotte Meta employees- organized and ran multiple events, all with 9.5/10 satisfaction scores from attendees (100 members)