Andrew Stockwell
Business-First HR Executive | Head of People | Building High-Trust, High-Performance Cultures in SaaS & Tech | Board Member | SHRM-SCP, MBA
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Vendr · Head of People · March 2025As Vendr scaled rapidly to roughly 400 employees, the organization had outgrown its informal approach to compensation, leveling, performance, and rewards. Without a formal framework, the company faced growing pay inequity, inconsistent promotion decisions, and leaders who lacked a basis for making hiring, performance, or talent decisions. This created risk both for employee trust and for the company's ability to scale its people practices sustainably. As Head of People, I owned with the team the end-to-end design and rollout of a comprehensive compensation and leveling overhaul. I partnered directly with the CEO and C-suite to establish the company's compensation philosophy, then led an 8-week project to build a formal leveling framework from the ground up. I transitioned the company from an insufficient external benchmarking tool to a consolidated compensation partner, built out wage program ranges that incorporated equity considerations, and developed a pay transparency strategy. In parallel, I revamped the benefits portfolio to better align cost and value. Before launch, I trained all leaders and managers across two dedicated sessions to ensure they understood and could confidently apply the new framework, then rolled out a redesigned annual and mid-year performance review process in Lattice. The results were significant and measurable within just two quarters: we closed identified pay gaps for 95% of flagged employees, cut benefits costs by 25%, and saw a marked rise in manager confidence around compensation and promotion decisions, as reflected in post-training surveys. Voluntary regrettable turnover in key roles also declined as employees gained clearer visibility into growth paths and engaged in more substantive career development conversations with their managers; turning a fragmented, ad hoc system into a scalable, equitable foundation for talent decisions.
Vendr · Head of PeopleFollowing a major funding round, Vendr was scaling rapidly, but several critical technology, business leadership, and go-to-market IC roles had sat open for months. This stalled company progress against key goals, creating urgency to overhaul how we approached hiring. As Head of People, I took direct ownership of fixing this in partnership with our TA professionals. I assessed our entire hiring process, instituting weekly pipeline reviews with TA leads and hiring managers to maintain accountability and momentum while improving decision quality and reducing bias. I also drove an evaluation of our ATS and reporting capabilities, and integrated AI-powered tools into our sourcing and pipeline parsing processes to increase efficiency and improve talent acquisition outcomes. The results were significant: within two quarters, in partnership with our TA team, we filled critical roles across the organization. This unblocked long-standing delays and directly enabled the company to hit critical product, engineering, and sales/service milestones that had been at risk due to gaps. And, our efforts improved average time-to-hire to 34 days, average time-to-fill to 42 days, and OAR to 95%. The initiative demonstrated how a structured, data-informed approach to hiring can directly translate into business execution and growth.
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Work history
Jul 2026 - Present · 4 months · Member, Trove Advisory Board
Aug 2025 - Present · 1.3 years · Member and Vice Chair, Board of Directors
Jan 2023 - Feb 2026 · 3.2 years · Head of People, Senior Director of Operations
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 · 11 months · Senior Director of Revenue Operations
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021 · 11 months · Product & Strategy Consultant
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021 · 3.3 years · Senior Vice President, Research, Product, & Operations
Jun 2014 - Oct 2017 · 3.4 years · Chief Product, Strategy, & Marketing Officer, Chief Research Officer
Feb 2001 - May 2014 · 13.3 years · Vice President and Practice Leader (various)
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