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Gianna Driver is joining HR tech company Lattice as its new chief people officer, according to a July 18 announcement.
Driver, who will officially come on board as Lattice’s CPO on August 12, most recently served as CHRO for cybersecurity company Exabeam. She’s also a member of Lattice’s CPO Council, a cohort of HR leaders advising the company on strategy and product development.
“The opportunity to directly impact the products” Lattice sells to CPOs and CHROs like herself was a major draw for Driver, who hasn’t previously worked in the HR tech space. She expressed an interest in transforming “how companies and organizations think about their people practices” in a conversation with HR Brew.
Lattice’s outgoing CPO, Cara Brennan Allamano, previously described her team as “customer zero,” advising the product and engineering teams on tools ranging from human resources information systems to compensation management platforms.
Responsible AI. Driver, who will oversee about 500 employees, has had some initial high-level conversations about what her priorities will be as Lattice’s CPO. Internally, she’ll be focused on “preparing the company for growth and scale with the different processes and systems and tools.”
Externally, Lattice has been heavily focused on incorporating AI into its product offerings. In March, the company rolled out a feature that uses AI to summarize and highlight feedback from employee surveys. More recently, Lattice made headlines when it announced a tool that would give digital workers official employee records, essentially allowing companies to incorporate non-human workers into their org charts. A few days later the company said it would no longer pursue this feature after some in the HR community criticized it.
Driver said she’s had conversations with Lattice’s chief product officer, Eric Schuchman, about incorporating AI into the company’s tools and products in “thoughtful and responsible ways.” She acknowledged HR leaders are fielding concerns from workers about being replaced by the nascent technology, and said she sees an opportunity with this new role to be “a voice in the room that’s committed to responsible AI.”
“We need to find really thoughtful, intentional ways to make sure we are remaining in the driver’s seat as we allow AI to help us move faster, smarter, quicker,” she said.