Lem Diaz

Lem Diaz is the current Head of People at Upbound. Prior to this, Lem Diaz worked at GV (Google Ventures) from August 2011 to November 2020 as a Talent Partner. In this role, Lem was responsible for helping portfolio companies hire their first five employees and teaching them to hire their next 50+. As GV’s portfolio evolved to have more mid to later stage startups, Lem’s responsibilities shifted to focus on scaling talent operations and teams. This included working closely with founders and executives to operationalize talent acquisition in a way that moved from ad-hoc and reactive to just-in-time hiring; designing and deploying capacity planning and hiring prioritization models to align with business and product objectives; building structured interview and hiring decision frameworks to ensure scalable and high bar hiring processes; developing and integrating candidate value propositions to manage narrative around company brand as well as increase the overall candidate experience and offer acceptance rates; institutionalizing culture by clearly defining and then incorporating corporate values into the hiring process; and creating job and compensation leveling frameworks designed to scale with the business. Lem also hired VP’s across most product engineering and people related functions during their time at GV.

Lem Diaz studied electrical engineering at Santa Clara University. Lem has worked in the field of electrical engineering for many years.

Lem Diaz reports to Bassam Tabbara, Founder & CEO. Pierce Kline - Senior Recruiter - GTM, Kalene Godoy - Recruiting Coordinator, and Andy Leighton - Principal Technical Recruiter report to Lem Diaz. Lem Diaz works with Jared Watts - Founding Engineer, Matt Heilman - Founding Designer, and Kelsey Havens - Director of Revenue Marketing.