Grant Battle
Oceanside,USA
Summary
People Leader with 10+ years of experience driving organizational success by building high-performing teams and scaling people programs at high-growth startups (Looker, GSN Games, Hired) and enterprise leaders (Google, Warner Media). Proven ability to drive talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies to secure mission-critical talent (96% retention of identified key talent after 18 months).
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Director, People Partner Lead
Pendo
Oceanside, CA
03.2021 - Current
- Developed a framework for the identification, growth, and retention of key talent. Achieved 96% retention of cohort 18 months after the program's launch.
- Founding member of the people partner team. Now overseeing a team of seven across five countries.
- Developed objective manager assessment criteria and a framework for segmenting managers into relevant peer groups, each with specialized development offerings.
- In concert with GC, refreshed Pendo's approach to transition and exit in alignment with company core values. In the first two quarters post-refresh, we saw a 75% reduction in spending on severance and legal fees.
- Leverage business acumen and established trust to deliver strategic thought partnership to all levels of the organization, focusing on VP and above.
- Own talent management initiatives, including semi-annual talent cycles (performance reviews, succession planning, promotion calibrations).
- Translate company strategy to quarterly people team roadmap. Present outcomes, learnings, and future plans to executives at the quarterly business review.
- In concert with the SVP, Strategy, and Sr. Director of Recruiting, lead the headcount management process.
- Refreshed Pendo policies for promotion and internal mobility.
People Partner
Google
San Francisco, CA
08.2019 - 03.2021
- People Partner for Looker R&D and Marketing through Google Cloud acquisition and integration. Responsible for driving talent strategy for 350+ employees across the US, EMEA, and APAC locations.
- Lead People Partner for Google Cloud's site strategy workstream. Member of the project team for the site selection of Cloud's newest U.S. tech hub. Created a site ramp playbook to help drive a successful site launch and expansion.
- Developed a framework and launched the inaugural talent and succession planning for aligned client groups. In concert with the VP of R&D, the VP of Marketing held aligned organizations accountable for delivery against subsequent development plans and action items for identified key talent, underperformers, or single points of failure.
- Created an HR integration playbook for the Google M&A HR team, grounded in programs and initiatives leveraged by Looker to drive successful onboarding and integration.
- Led the transition strategy (reorg, comms strategy, key talent retention) following the unexpected departure of Looker's Chief Product Officer, soon after the acquisition.
- In partnership with VP, R&D, developed Looker R&D People and Talent Roadmap.
- 12 months Post integration, led retention efforts focused on the identification of key talent at risk of attrition. In partnership with comp COE, delivered of supplemental equity grants for those meeting qualifiers specific qualifiers for performance, potential, and cash flow depreciation.
Director, People and Talent
HIRED
San Francisco, CA
04.2018 - 08.2019
- Led the People Partner and Recruiting functions at Hired, while also serving as the People Partner to the R&D organization.
- Redesigned the compensation philosophy, integrating new salary surveys with refreshed career ladders to develop transparent compensation bands that were socialized to the org.
- In response to underwhelming performance, partnered with CRO in analysis of the GTM organization to determine and address people-related causes. As a result of the analysis, we developed new ramped rep performance benchmarks, updates to quotas, and incentive compensation plans.
- Revamped the Hired talent calibration process increasing manager self-service and decreasing the percentage of total salary invested per cycle by nearly 50%.
- Helped Hired generate MQL by participating in thought leadership engagements for the company (webinars, interviews, panels, etc.).
Sr. People Partner
Bleacher Report
San Francisco, CA
08.2017 - 04.2018
- HR and Talent partner to the Product, Engineering, Design, Content, and Business Operations organizations (~400 employees across 3 locations).
- Developed B/R's 2018 People and Talent roadmap, successfully gaining executive alignment and a specialized budget.
- Project managed HRIS audit and design of 'employee lifecycle database' in order to optimize data integrity and enhance reporting capabilities.
- Oversaw review, selection, and integration of new HRIS and LMS systems.
- In response to data obtained from new hire experience surveys and employee focus groups, steered a redesign of the new hire onboarding program (B/R training camp).
Sr. Manager, HR
GSN Games
Boston, MA
02.2012 - 08.2017
- Second member of people team, helped lead company through hyper-growth stage (90 -> 950+ employees)
- Managed a global HR team (US, EMEA), consisting of two HR admins, two HRBP, and a HR Operations Manager.
- Developed risk assessment formula to help GSN proactively identify and develop plans to engage and retain top talent at high risk for voluntary attrition.
- In concert with Chief People Officer, created a universal job leveling framework that was successfully integrated across all game studios.
- Created quarterly People KPI dashboard for the Executive team.
- Launched company-wide employee development program, GSN Ignite.
- Managed the selection, integration, and implementation of salary surveys. Leveraged salary survey data to build out a framework for pilot compensation bands.
- Oversaw the annual performance review process.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Clark University
Worcester, MA05-2011
Skills
- Change management
- Succession planning
- Talent development
- Program design
- Compensation strategy
- Project management
- Data analysis
- Consultation and coaching
- Organizational design
- AI tools (Gemini, Chat GPT)
Timeline
Sr. Director, People Partner Lead
Pendo
03.2021 - Current
People Partner
Google
08.2019 - 03.2021
Director, People and Talent
HIRED
04.2018 - 08.2019
Sr. People Partner
Bleacher Report
08.2017 - 04.2018
Sr. Manager, HR
GSN Games
02.2012 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Clark University
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