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10 Meta operations leaders

These ten operations leaders hold or have held vice president, director and head-of-operations roles at Meta across scaled operations, product operations, commerce, data center sites and AI programs. A reader can learn how Meta organizes operations teams by product and platform and how those teams support launches, quality and growth.

10 professionals1 companiesData retrieved September 29, 2026

Professionals to explore

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  1. Abigail Sooy

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP, Product and Regulatory Operations · Meta

    VP, Product and Regulatory Operations at Meta since 2023, and VP, Community Product Operations at Meta since 2021. Her profile says she leads a portfolio of operations teams, including Human Data Operations teams for Gen AI frontier model development and product quality efforts. She was Director, Community Operations, Trust & Safety at Facebook (2017–2021).

  2. Adam Faul

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director, Global Operations Integrations · Meta

    Director, Global Operations Integrations at Meta since 2025, a title the listing also shows for 2023–2024, and former Director, WhatsApp Operations (2024–2025) and Director, Metaverse Integrity Operations (2022–2023) at Meta. His profile says he led large-scale data collection for Meta's frontier models, leads 150+ people providing operational support for Meta apps such as WhatsApp, Threads and MetaAI, and is ops lead for Meta's M&A.

  3. Gene Alston

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP, Commerce Business & Operations · Meta

    VP, Commerce Business & Operations at Meta since 2019, a role his profile lists at executive level, and former VP, Marketing Partnerships at Meta (2017–2019). The listing also shows a Head of Corporate & Business Development role at Pinterest, with no start date given.

  4. Golnoosh Salimpour

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director, Facebook Operations · Meta

    Director, Facebook Operations at Meta since 2023, and Business Lead at Meta since 2020. The profile headline reads Director of Operations & Chief of Staff, and it describes the director role as Chief of Staff to the Head of Facebook, leading the org's strategy and operations team.

  5. Honora Whitfield

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Vice President, Global Operations, Scaled Operations · Meta

    Vice President, Global Operations, Scaled Operations at Meta since 2022, and former Global Director, Global Operations Learning Organization at Meta (2019–2022). She was Worldwide Learning Leader - Health, Safety, Sustainability, Security, and Compliance (HSSSC) at Amazon (2016–2019) and Vice President, Global Learning Organization at Bank of America (2011–2015).

  6. Jennifer Dukart

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director of Program Management & Operations, Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta

    Director of Program Management & Operations, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta since 2025, and former Director of Strategy and Operations, XR Tech (Reality Labs) at Meta (2022–2025). Her profile says she leads the program management team spanning AGI Foundations (AI Tech and AI Frontier) at Meta Superintelligence Labs.

  7. Maria C. Perez

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director, Product Operations · Meta

    Director, Product Operations at Meta since 2022. Her profile says she led a global, multidisciplinary operations organization supporting 400+ enterprise products across 13 verticals, covering program management, release management, production support and controls and compliance teams. She was SVP, Head of Ipsos.Digital, NA at Ipsos (2020–2022).

  8. Niall McEntegart

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Head of Global Operations, SiteOps (US East, EMEA, APAC) · Meta

    Head of Global Operations, SiteOps (US East, EMEA, APAC) at Meta since 2021, a head-level operations role, and former Director Datacenter Site Operations (EMEA & APAC - Global Lead) at Meta (2020–2022). He has also been an Executive Board Member at Qstar Ltd and at EDGE NETWORK SERVICES LIMITED since 2021.

  9. Sandy Dondici

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP, Product and Service Operations · Meta

    VP, Product and Service Operations at Meta since 2019; the listing also shows Director, Product and Service Operations at Meta from 2018. The profile lists the VP role at President/Vice President level and the director role in the Operations department, and also shows a CTO COO role at Poptent (2012–2014).

  10. Sharad Agarwal

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director, Sustaining Product Operations · Meta

    Director, Sustaining Product Operations at Meta since 2022, with a profile headline of Sr. Director, Product Operations | Reality Labs @ Meta. He was Director, Global Commerce at Meta (2017–2022), Founder of Cyrcle, Inc. (2016–2017) and in Retail Ops & Strategy at Google (2014–2016).

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Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01How does Meta structure operations teams across its apps, and which decisions sit centrally versus with product teams?
  2. 02How do Meta's operations teams scale review and support work across vendors and regions?
  3. 03What does it take to stand up operations for a new AI or hardware product at Meta's scale?

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