Executive Search for HR Tech Leadership
MitchelLake was appointed to deliver an executive search for HR Tech leadership for Culture Amp, one of the world’s most successful and innovative employee experience platforms. The mandate focused on appointing a Design Director, a pivotal role responsible for building and leading a world-class design team while influencing the company’s executive vision.
For Culture Amp, design is central to its mission of transforming the employee experience. The role of Director of Design was established to attract and retain top design talent, refine internal processes, and advocate for design excellence at the executive leadership level.
The Appointment
Through a targeted executive search for HR Tech executives, MitchelLake identified candidates with the creative leadership, cultural empathy, and operational capability to scale an internationally distributed design function. The successful hire brought both vision and pragmatism — ensuring Culture Amp could strengthen its design systems while continuing to innovate as a global SaaS unicorn.
This leadership appointment reinforced Culture Amp’s commitment to building a high-performing, human-centered culture, while supporting its rapid scale across global markets.
About Culture Amp
Culture Amp revolutionises how over 25 million employees across 5,000 companies engage with and shape their workplace experience. As the global platform leader for employee experience, Culture Amp empowers organisations to:
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Transform employee engagement.
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Build and retain high-performing teams.
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Apply insights from the world’s largest employee dataset.
Backed by more than a decade of innovation and leading venture investors, Culture Amp has been recognised as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative workplace companies by Fast Company. Its customers include global leaders such as Salesforce, Unilever, PwC, SoulCycle, and BigCommerce.
Culture Amp operates with a mission-driven approach to help businesses create a better world of work, combining cutting-edge research with powerful technology and an unparalleled dataset.
Partner With MitchelLake
MitchelLake has extensive experience in executive search for HR Tech, having delivered leadership appointments for unicorns, growth-stage ventures, and enterprise platforms. From design and product leadership to CPO, CHRO, and CEO mandates, we connect transformative HR Tech ventures with executives who can scale culture, innovation, and business growth.
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