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Shannon Benjamin

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Head of People at Cambly Inc.
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Shannon Benjamin is a results-driven talent acquisition leader currently serving as VP at Freshworks. With a history of scaling teams at high-growth companies like Pure Storage and LinkedIn, she is known for her strategic and empathetic leadership. Shannon holds a BA from Hamline University.

Her career is marked by significant achievements, including building the first-ever People strategy at Cambly and leading a team that enabled 7x revenue growth at LinkedIn through strategic talent acquisition.

Unique fact: Shannon was instrumental in growing LinkedIns team, which supported a revenue increase from $500 million to $3. 5 billion during her tenure.

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Experience
32 Years
Current Role
Head of People
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Shannon shows up

Decisive But Friendly
Driven But Considerate
Friendly But Fast

They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed

Priorities

Topics Shannon cares about

Scaling TA Teams
She has repeatedly built and led large, global talent acquisition teams, growing headcount by 40% at Pure Storage and leading a team of ~100 at LinkedIn.
Executive Recruiting
She is actively expanding her leadership team at Freshworks, with a focus on hiring seasoned executive recruiters to handle succession planning and senior searches.
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Career

Work history

6-2022
Head of People
Cambly Inc.
6-2018 - 6-2022
VP, Global Talent Acquisition
Pure Storage
10-2016 - 6-2018
Co-Founder
BENJAMIN LEONARD Talent Partners
8-2011 - 6-2016
Sr Director, Talent Acquisition - Global Sales & Int'l
LinkedIn
1-2010 - 8-2011
Principal Consultant
Bainbridge Consulting LLC
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
1988 - 1992
BA
Hamline University
Social presence
in
Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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