Summary
Mindy Gaines is a Senior Employee Experience Specialist based in San Francisco with over seven years of HR experience across employee experience, systems administration, operations, analytics, recruiting, onboarding, L&D, and DEIB programs. She has a proven track record scaling people operations rapidly—helping grow headcount from under 40 to 300—while building hiring infrastructure, HRIS processes, and repeatable onboarding that prioritize candidate experience and diversity. A hands-on program manager, she drives employee engagement through events, gifting, training, surveys and ERG leadership, and translates people data into quarterly insights for stakeholders. Comfortable in fast-paced startups, she pairs a creative writing background with strong analytical skills and a knack for learning new systems quickly, often serving as the primary HR contact across organizations.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing at San Francisco State University