Lindsay Grenawalt
Chief People Officer at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLindsay Grenawalt is a seasoned people leader with 8+ years scaling talent, processes, and compensation strategy for high-growth technology companies, currently serving as Chief People Officer at Cockroach Labs. She blends hands-on recruiting experience from Google and GV with operational leadership from Yext’s IPO era to build repeatable hiring engines for distributed, product-centric teams. At Cockroach Labs she has helped translate technical product ambitions—like a globally survivable SQL database—into talent strategies that match engineering rigor with candidate experience. Known for negotiating complex compensation packages and tightening assessment frameworks, she focuses on sustainable headcount growth rather than headline-driven hiring. Based in New York, she pairs a sociological lens from UC Berkeley with pragmatic people analytics to align culture and scaling needs. A detail not obvious from titles: her background includes early research work at UCSF, informing a data-forward, evidence-based approach to people operations.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA Sociology, BA Sociology at University of California, BerkeleyGithub contributions (1)
cockroachlabs/open-sourced-interview-process
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Open Sourced Interview Process
Contributions:69 commits, 4 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 7 months
interview-process
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