Sarah (Argue) Royer Email & Phone Number

Dayton, Oh, Us

Dayton, Oh, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

After recently raising our $57M Series B in October, Nirvana is continuing to modernize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. Our technology platform delivers modern insurance & risk management to not only help our customers protect their businesses, but actually improve safety for everyone.We’re transforming the legacy, $750B+ commercial insurance industry through cutting-edge predictive models using real-time IoT data (~50B connected devices by 2030), automation to deliver instantaneous quotes and faster underwriting, & proactive, and data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.We’re backed by top-tier VCs including General Catalyst & Lightspeed Ventures. Our leadership team has helped scale multi-billion dollar companies from scratch including Samsara, Rubrik, Acko & Flexport.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

[Impacted by company-wide layoff] First member of newly established HR Business Partner structure; supporting the GTM teams - Revenue, Customer Success, and Marketing.Served as trusted partner to leadership and managers on people strategies; designed career pathing for GTM and Revenue Teams; lead semi-annual performance review cycles via Culture Amp; implemented Radford compensation tool to establish competitive, equitable salary bands and enable creation of career pathing, for both management and individual contributor levels across the org; supported initial creation of Built In’s compensation philosophy; conducted bi-annual market comp analyses in parallel with our performance review cycles as well as ad-hoc compensation analysis and research for newly opened reqs; and focused on employee engagement leveraging engagement survey data to provide recommendations to our Leader’s focus areas, strategies, programming and development opportunities, etc.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

[Acquired by Arrive Logistics] Established the People Ops function at Forager; creating programs and strategies around recruiting, onboarding, performance management, training and development, comp and benefits, diversity & inclusion, employee engagement and events, policy creation and compliance, system implementation(s) and more.Forager is a venture-backed innovator in the cross-border logistics industry. With a combination of cutting-edge technology and decades of industry experience, Forager is changing the game. We’re tackling the problems international shippers and carriers have faced for years and delivering seamless and modern transportation solutions for our customers.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed day-to-day HR operations; benefit strategy and administration, employee relations, recruiting, onboarding and off-boarding, payroll and HRIS administration, annual performance review process, engagement initiatives, etc.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

[Impacted by company wide layoff]Acquired by Kellogg Company - managed the HR function for the fastest-growing nutrition bar brand in the US during an accelerated time of 4x personnel growth, onboarding 180+ new hires during my time.Benefit planning and administration; supported the compensation review and planning process; managed employee relations through exponential growth; created new manager training; implemented HR policies and procedures while ensuring compliance across 12 states; created a talent acquisition strategy to support up to 50 open requisitions at any given time; built and maintained an incredible outward facing employer brand strategy; improved parental leave plans that best supported new parents; launched initial D&I strategy and initiatives; designed and administered 401k plan; redefined performance management process; implemented and oversaw internship program; supported team member engagement initiatives; leveraged design thinking principles to reimagine RXBAR's internal processes and trainings in order to drive a deeper values-based approach into the way we worked.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Supported the day-to-day HR operations, while doubling the headcount of a Chicago based startup leader in enterprise virtual reality (VR) solutions for retailers and manufacturers in the consumer-packaged goods industry.Full-cycle recruiting; implemented ATS system and expense platform; managed and built out new hire onboarding assimilating new hires with company values and culture; administered payroll and benefits; maintained employee HRIS records; supported performance management and annual 360 peer review process, established and executed an annual job shadow day with engineering students from local universities, lead and organized employee engagement efforts, company gatherings and holiday parties, etc.

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

[Acquired by 6Fusion]MarkITx was a Chicago based startup that provided a platform for OEM’s, enterprises and brokers to buy, sell and trade their IT hardware. Acquired by 6fusion.Managed relationship and acted as main liaison with PEO provider; payroll processing, benefit enrollment, trainings and expense management. Daily coordination with customers and IT Asset Disposition partners to plan, manage and track the end-to-end logistics process for all trades. Managed all AP/AR, transaction processing, billing and vendor relationships. Maintained an active social presence in a community of 1,035 IT professionals within Spiceworks and 1,600 additional followers across Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Social media management and content marketing for a media company. On a day-to-day basis I managed and monitored 15+ social media accounts, totaling 6.2M followers. Responsible for crafting engaging, content-rich posts with the ultimate goal of building buzz and audience awareness. Collaborated with community management and data science teams to review, analyze and report the effectiveness of campaigns.