Catherine Snelgrove

About Catherine Snelgrove

My career has followed the evolution of technology itself — from early hardware organizations at Apple, HP and Agilent, to internet-scale platforms at Yahoo, and now to LinkedIn, where technology is reshaping how people work globally. What has remained constant is my curiosity about how organizations adapt during moments of change. I chose HR because it sits at the intersection of business strategy and human behavior — the place where leadership decisions, organizational design, and talent determine whether innovation actually succeeds. Across each chapter, I’ve been drawn to environments undergoing transformation, helping leaders align people and structure to what the business needs next. I’ve consistently partnered with leaders during moments when organizations needed to evolve as quickly as the technology around them. The most interesting shift I’m seeing today isn’t the technology itself, but how quickly leadership expectations and ways of working must evolve alongside it. I care about: strong leadership, well designed organizations, practical transformation, and work that makes a difference.

Experience

1. Senior Director, HR Business Partner

   Linkedin

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Lead HR partnership for LinkedIn’s Developer & Platform Experience, Productivity Engineering, and CoreAI organizations, overseeing a team of HR leaders supporting critical platform and AI initiatives across Engineering. Advise senior engineering leadership on organizational design, leadership capability, and workforce strategy, helping translate technical ambition into operating reality. Partner with engineering leadership to evolve organizational culture and ways of working, helping teams adapt as software development shifts toward platform-centric and increasingly AI-enabled workflows.

Education

• De Anza College

  Associate of Arts (AA), Sociology

• UC Berkeley Extension

  Innovative HR Leadership for Aspiring CHROs, Human Resources Development

• San José State University

  Sociology

• University of Phoenix

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Management

Skills

• Management
• Organizational Development
• Talent Acquisition
• Strategy
• Succession Planning
• Human Resources
• Executive Coaching
• Training
• Recruiting
• Change Management
• Employee Benefits
• Organizational Design
• Leadership Development
• Onboarding
• Employee Engagement
• Vendor Management
• Talent Management
• Coaching
• Leadership
• Performance Management
• Employee Relations
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Workforce Planning