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Carmel Smith

Collaborator · DISC type si
Senior Manager, People Operations at Tenstorrent
📍 Palo Alto, California, United States

Carmel Smith is a seasoned people operations leader with experience at high-growth tech companies like Tenstorrent, Confluent, and Palantir. She specializes in strategic initiatives, program management, and enhancing operational efficiency within HR. Carmel holds a Bachelor of Arts from UC Santa Barbara and excels at cross-functional collaboration.

Carmel is passionate about the intersection of technology and human creativity. She actively shapes the future of work by focusing on what humans can achieve with AI, rather than fearing its capabilities. She is focused on building and scaling teams from the ground up.

She believes the future of work isnt about what AI can do, but what humans choose to do with AI.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Senior Manager, People Operations
Job Level
Middle
Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Carmel shows up

Fair-minded
Consensus Builder
Example Driven

Win-win scenarios can appeal strongly to them. They are more likely to go for proven solutions. Unlike D or C types, they are calm as well as friendly and can give the impression of being more receptive than they actually are.

Priorities

Topics Carmel cares about

People Operations
Currently hiring for multiple People Operations roles at Tenstorrent, indicating a focus on building and scaling HR functions like benefits, compliance, and employee support.
Scaling Teams
Her hiring posts emphasize building teams "from the ground up" in a fast-growing environment, showing a focus on creating scalable processes for new regions and functions.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Senior Manager, People Operations
Tenstorrent
11-2023 - 2-2025
Sr. Program Manager, People Strategy, Programs & Enablement
Confluent
7-2022 - 11-2023
Strategic Program Manager, Office of the CPO
Confluent
6-2020 - 7-2022
Head of Experience
Confluent
11-2019 - 6-2020
Business Operations & Regional Workplace Program Manager
Palantir Technologies
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Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
UC Santa Barbara
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Steadiness (S)

Steadiness (S) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to focus on cooperation, support and taking everyone along. Those scoring high tend to be consistent and calm.

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