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10 Google HR leaders
These ten Google HR leaders have served as people operations vice presidents, senior directors and HR directors at Google, covering business HR, compensation, people partner teams and HR transformation. A reader can learn how HR leaders build and run their teams at Google.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anita Kuba
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, People Operations · Google
Vice President, Office of CEO, Exec Leadership and Org Development at Google since September 2019. She was Vice President, People Operations at Google (2016–2019), a role her profile says helped drive Google-wide product strategy via senior talent acquisition, executive coaching and organization development, and Sr. Director, People Operations (2014–2016).
Anna Rein
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Human Resources · Google
Senior Director, Human Resources at Google since November 2022, with a Human Resources Director row at Google since 2019 and HR business partner roles there between 2007 and 2019. Her profile describes leading teams of senior HR professionals and directly managing HR managers and business partners.
Jenny Dairyko
LinkedInExperience: Global Managing Director, Google Technical Services People Operations · Google
Global Managing Director, Google Technical Services People Operations at Google since April 2022. She was Director, Global Customer Experience People Operations (2019–2022) and Head of HR, gTech Consumers, Learning & Development Lead, Chicago HR Site Lead (2017–2019) at Google; her profile notes experience in labor and employee relations and organizational design.
Kerrie Peraino
LinkedInExperience: VP, People Operations, Google Cloud · Google
VP, People Operations, Google Cloud at Google since March 2025; her profile says she and her team of HR people partners support the Cloud CEO and his leadership team. She was earlier Vice President, People Operations -- Business HR (2019–2021) and Vice President, People Operations, Global Advisory Functions (2017–2019) at Google, and Chief People Officer at Verily Health (2021–2025).
Kevin Lucas, PHR
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, People Ops Cloud Sales & Mandiant Consulting · Google
Sr. Director, People Ops Cloud Global AI & FDE, Specialty Sales, Customer Experience & GTM COO at Google since July 2026. Earlier Google roles include Sr. Director, People Ops Cloud Sales & Mandiant Consulting (2023–2025) and Director, People Ops Enterprise & Consumer Apps (2019–2022); his headline describes him as senior director of business HR at Google Cloud.
Melonie Parker
LinkedInExperience: Director, People Operations · Google
Vice President, Googler Engagement at Google since February 2025, after serving as Chief Diversity Officer at Google (2019–2025). She was also Director, People Operations at Google (2017–2018) and Vice President of Human Resources & Communications at Sandia National Laboratories (2015–2017).
Monica Davis
LinkedInExperience: Director, Compensation Alphabet Companies · Google
Vice President, People Ops Velocity at Google since May 2024; her headline also names executive compensation and lead people partner to the chief people officer. She was Director, Compensation Alphabet Companies (2016–2022), Head of HR Ann Arbor (2015–2016) and Director, Executive Compensation (2013–2015) at Google.
Nandini Jayaram
LinkedInExperience: Director, People Strategy & Operations · Google
Senior Director, People Ops Transformation Office at Google since June 2025. She was Director, People Strategy & Operations (2021–2025), Director, HR - Search and Assistant (2020–2021), Director, HR - gTech (2018–2020) and HRBP Lead - Global Business, South East Asia (2016–2018) at Google.
Troy Dickerson
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, People Operations · Google
Former Vice President, People Operations at Google (2017–2019) and Director People Operations at Google (2015–2017). Since 2019 he is Vice President- Strategy, Operations and Google Operations Center at Google, and he was Americas Talent Leader at EY (2013–2014).
Valerie Grillo
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Human Resources · Google
Vice President, Human Resources at Google since October 2021. Before that she held Senior Vice President HR business partner roles at American Express (2017–2020) and was Senior Vice President - Head of Market HR and Global Employee & Labor Relations there in 2021. Her profile lists expertise in talent and succession planning, leadership development and employee and labor relations.
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Match the person's people operations scope to your question, since a business HR lead for a product area, a compensation lead and a transformation lead each see different problems. Check whether the Google role is current before asking about today's programs.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you organize HR business partners so each product or sales organization gets senior coverage without duplicating central teams?
- 02What makes executive compensation and promotion processes feel fair at a company with many senior leaders?
- 03How should a people operations team decide which HR processes to automate or redesign first?
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