Oceanside, CA · People Leader

Grant Battle

VP, People Partners · Strategic HR Leader · AI-Forward Operator

"I build AI-forward people systems that help companies thrive."

Grant Battle

The short version

Across public and venture-backed companies, I've led teams through acquisitions, hypergrowth, restructuring, and cultural transformation. The thread through all of it: designing talent strategy that drives retention, performance, and business outcomes.

Core strengths

What I bring to the table.

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Builder

  • Founding member of the Pendo People Partner team. Built the function up to a 7-person global team with a mix of homegrown internal transfers, personal referrals, and passively sourced talent.
  • Designed and implemented people programs and systems across everything from performance management, total rewards, talent development, and site strategy.
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AI Efficiency & Adoption

  • Leading AI adoption across the global People team, built around a 5-step framework: Discovery → Exposure → Experimentation → Evaluation → Adoption.
  • Using tools like Claude, Gemini, Lovable, n8n, and Exec.com to create efficiency and automation in workflows like performance management, manager development, and people analytics.
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Diverse, Global Experience

  • IC, leadership, and player-coach roles across People Partner, TA, and HR Ops & Rewards.
  • Supported teams across EMEA, APAC, MENA, and LATAM.
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Retention Architecture

  • Designed a program to identify and proactively invest in high-impact talent.
  • Retention efforts are anchored around 4 pillars: learning, earning, networking, and recharging.
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Data-Driven Leadership

  • Obsessed with using data to inform decisions and get a competitive edge.
  • Whether it's attrition risk modeling, robust org health dashboards, or Toptracer data to enhance my golf game, I lean on data to drive outcomes.
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M&A Due Diligence & Integration

  • Lived through both sides of M&A integration multiple times.
  • Built modifiable due diligence and integration playbooks grounded in past learnings, leaning heavily on experience from the Looker/Google Cloud acquisition and integration.

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