Kiran Kalra

Director, People Operations and Services at Chime

San Francisco Bay Area

About

As the Director of People Operations and Services at Chime, I bring over 15 years of experience in human resources, with a strong focus on People Programs, Compliance, and Services. My work emphasizes optimizing the employee lifecycle by leveraging Workday, Moveworks, and Jira Service Desk to enhance people processes and create seamless employee experiences. My mission is to enable operational excellence through AI-powered solutions and a tiered support model, ensuring efficiency and compliance while empowering the organization with strategic resources. With a history in HR operations and talent technology leadership across retail, software, and financial technology industries, I am committed to driving meaningful and impactful employee support systems.

Experience

  • Director of People Operations & Technology at Chime
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

    As the leader of People Operations and People Services, I oversee three core areas: People Programs, People Compliance, and People Services. I am responsible for optimizing people programs throughout the entire employee lifecycle, ensuring rigorous compliance, and delivering high-quality employee support. By leveraging AI and a tiered support model, I focus on driving efficiency, enhancing the employee experience, and unlocking strategic resources for the business.

  • Gap Inc. ()
    • Director, Talent Technology & Operations
      Jun 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs

      Successfully lead the global Workday implementation for over 18 countries across HQ, Stores and Distribution Centers and managed a team responsible for configuration, reporting, security, business process design and testing.

    • Director HR Operations
      Mar 2017 - Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Manage reporting/analytics, employee survey strategy and HR systems/initiatives globally throughout Supply Chain HQ, Logistics and Sourcing organizations.

    • Sr. Manager HR Operations
      Jun 2012 - Mar 2017 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      Managed system implementations and total rewards strategy for 7500+ employees globally for Global Supply Chain function.

  • Old Navy ()
    • HR Bus Solutions Mgr
      Mar 2007 - Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 4 mos

      Responsible for people reporting/analytics for full fleet of Old Navy stores across North America.

    • Sr. HR Analyst
      Dec 2005 - Mar 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • HR Business Analyst at PeopleSoft, Inc.
    Dec 2002 - Jan 2005 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Managed people dashboards and maintenance or HR data warehouse for user community.

  • HR Analyst at Providian Financial Corporation
    Nov 2000 - Nov 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Fulfilled ad-hoc transactional reporting requests for HR partners.