Leadership · Chief People Officer

Hannah Pritchett

Trained as a linguist, spent seven years at Stripe across risk, payments operations and talent, and now leads Anthropic's people team.

Career

Worked on trust and safety at Facebook.
Was VP of People at Binti and stepped in as its interim head of engineering.
Built a dashboard prototype herself over a weekend with Claude Code after months of trying to describe it to her team.
Won an $11,000 Fulbright grant in 2006 as a BYU linguistics senior to study Bahasa Indonesian and Javanese in Semarang, Indonesia.
Finished the Fulbright application in a month instead of the usual five to six.
At Facebook, worked on teams covering compromised accounts, child safety, content policy and payments fraud.
Argues the field should have been called "human capital," and that employees are "R&D money, not operating expenses money."
Runs a retro on every project, a habit borrowed from strength training, where a failed lift earns applause for pushing hard enough.
Says Anthropic designs its people system around intrinsic motivation, with flat titles, offers that are not negotiated and mission-first hiring.