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Anita S.

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People Business Partner at Tailscale
📍 Santa Monica, California, United States

Anita is a People Operations leader with over a decade of experience building HR infrastructure for high-growth tech startups. A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, she specializes in establishing foundational people systems and leading distributed teams through hyper-growth. People who have worked with her describe her as impressive, kind, and respectful.

Anita is passionate about working with companies that have a strong social mission and positive culture. She is drawn to organizations with "good humans" and has shown a specific interest in non-profits like Year Up United, which focuses on empowering young adults.

As the first People hire at Airbyte, she single-handedly scaled the global remote team from 27 to over 105 employees across 11 countries.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
People Business Partner
Location
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Hypergrowth Startups
Her career has been focused on joining high-growth tech startups like Tailscale, Tecton, and Airbyte to build their people operations functions from the ground up.
Global Remote Teams
She has direct experience scaling a distributed global team across 25 US states and 11 countries in under a year at Airbyte.
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Work history

11-2025
People Business Partner
Tailscale
7-2023 - 9-2025
People Operations, Senior Manager
Tecton
1-2023 - 7-2023
People Operations, Senior Manager
Propel, Inc
6-2021 - 12-2022
People & Ops, Director
Airbyte
12-2017 - 4-2021
People & Ops, Director
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Education
Master's degree
California State University, Fullerton
Bachelor's degree
University of California, Riverside
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