# Hannah Pritchett

Leadership · Chief People Officer at Anthropic · joined 2024

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

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/hannah-pritchett

**At Anthropic:**
- Jan 2024 – present: Chief People Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-pritchett-261b0a74)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- May 2022 – Jan 2024: Binti, VP of People
- Jun 2015 – May 2022: Stripe, Scaling Operations
- Feb 2010 – May 2015: Facebook, Trust & Safety
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-pritchett-261b0a74)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Worked on trust and safety at Facebook. [1](https://register.transform.us/2025/speaker/1375175/hannah-pritchett) [2](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Was VP of People at Binti and stepped in as its interim head of engineering. [1](https://register.transform.us/2025/speaker/1375175/hannah-pritchett) [2](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Built a dashboard prototype herself over a weekend with Claude Code after months of trying to describe it to her team. [1](https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissadaimler/2026/03/15/ai-wont-fix-what-you-havent-clarified-become-a-builder-leader/) [2](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Won an $11,000 Fulbright grant in 2006 as a BYU linguistics senior to study Bahasa Indonesian and Javanese in Semarang, Indonesia. [1](https://universe.byu.edu/2006/07/05/student-receives-fulbright-grant/)
- Finished the Fulbright application in a month instead of the usual five to six. [1](https://universe.byu.edu/2006/07/05/student-receives-fulbright-grant/)
- At Facebook, worked on teams covering compromised accounts, child safety, content policy and payments fraud. [1](https://s1.goeshow.com/mrc/annual/2018/Vegas18Agenda.cfm?&speakerCRMKey=56E43AE8-6B87-4968-8DE7-CA00D7896DAD)
- Argues the field should have been called "human capital," and that employees are "R&D money, not operating expenses money." [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWIZlbPTCUk)
- Runs a retro on every project, a habit borrowed from strength training, where a failed lift earns applause for pushing hard enough. [1](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Says Anthropic designs its people system around intrinsic motivation, with flat titles, offers that are not negotiated and mission-first hiring. [1](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Below the Surface podcast with Joelle Emerson on how Anthropic hires and learns (2026)](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- [Total 180 interview: Does "Human Resources" frame it wrong (2026)](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcelolebre_does-human-resources-frame-it-wrong-total-activity-7425108775746965504-bgZH)
- [Charter panel on moving from AI pilots to business impact (2026)](https://www.charterworks.com/managing-the-messy-middle-from-ai-pilots-to-business-impact-2/)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people