Sarah Hagan
Head Of People Operations & Planning
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Hagan is a strategic People Operations leader with 9 years of experience transforming HR into a growth engine for scaling SaaS and mission-driven organizations. She led Workday and HR tech strategy at Smartsheet through hypergrowth (900→3,500+ employees, $250M→$1B+ ARR), rescued a failing implementation, and integrated AI/ML to automate people processes and improve employee experience. A Ph.D. data scientist by training, she builds people analytics and self-service reporting that compress time-to-insight from weeks to real time and informs C-suite workforce strategy, M&A integration, and compliance across multiple entities. She has experience operationalizing global frameworks across 20+ countries while maintaining 100% audit compliance and high engagement during rapid change. Energetic about growth-stage transitions, she combines scientific rigor, technical fluency in systems like Workday and Greenhouse, and empathetic leadership to turn infrastructure projects into competitive advantage.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Psychology, Bachelor's Degree, Psychology at Pacific Lutheran UniversityNational Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Health San AntonioDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience; Statistics), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience; Statistics) at Baylor UniversityGithub contributions (5)
thesarahhagan/QConSF-Baby_Got_Feedback
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
thesarahhagan/DevOps-Days
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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