Summary
Lauren Bogner is a seasoned people and operations leader with 13 years at Keyhole Software, where she joined as employee 17 and now serves as Chief People Officer guiding a 100-person engineering-focused firm. She combines talent strategy, culture stewardship, and hands-on marketing and communications experience to keep teams high-performing (Keyhole averages 17+ years’ experience and a 4.8/5 Glassdoor score). Lauren built Keyhole’s recruiting engine from the ground up, managed technical content programs with 500+ edited blogs, and still removes blockers so developers can innovate. Based in Kansas City, she blends strategic executive planning with practical HR, benefits, and event operations, and is known for scaling culture as deliberately as headcount. An early non-engineering hire who grew into a company linchpin, she brings rare continuity and institutional knowledge to fast-changing market pivots.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Journalism: Strategic Communication, Bachelor of Science (BS), Journalism: Strategic Communication at University of Kansas