Tiffany Stevenson joins Patreon as Chief Individuals Officer

We’re thrilled to announce that Tiffany Stevenson is becoming a member of our staff as Patreon’s Chief Individuals Officer overseeing our international HR apply. During the last 15+ years, Tiffany has led expertise administration, D&I, studying, and neighborhood at Sephora and Field. Her drive for locating what it takes to mobilize expertise to return collectively and obtain an organization technique is what in the end kick-started her profession and it’s what has saved her motivated to today. As our staff continues to develop worldwide, we couldn’t be happier to have Tiffany on board to prepared the ground.

In her earlier roles, Tiffany labored on increasing international groups whereas specializing in expertise improvement, engagement, and tradition. Her mission has at all times been to create wholesome, thriving communities and now she’s bringing that vitality to Patreon. “I’m excited to take my expertise occupied with neighborhood extra holistically to see what we are able to construct to assist scale our mission in new methods,” she says.

Tiffany is invested in, and dedicated to, constructing higher workplaces, and serving to others do the identical. She even launched a D&I tech neighborhood for Chief Range Officers to open up the dialog and help leaders in comparable positions. Tiffany was additionally not too long ago appointed Chair of the Advisory Board at Hitch (a expertise mobility platform) and beforehand served on the Nationwide Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the U.S. Division of Commerce, main a Workforce Growth process drive.

We’re extremely fortunate to have Tiffany be part of our staff and we needed everybody to get to know her slightly bit higher.

Inform us about a few of your earlier achievements all through your profession.

I’m very proud to have led the expertise group at Sephora throughout a time of unprecedented development and scale. In my ultimate yr, I had the pleasure of designing and launching the D&I apply and platform: SephoraIN.

At Field, my staff and I designed all the expertise apply work from scratch whereas codifying and scaling tradition by leveraging Field’s core mission and values. This included the whole lot from designing core behaviors to scaling our international studying and improvement programming and a lot extra. Because of these efforts, we had been named a Fortune 100 Greatest Firms to Work For (two years in a row) and acquired a number of distinctions by Nice Place to Work.

Why did you select to affix the Patreon staff?

The mission deeply resonates for me as a human. With an fairness mindset, I firmly imagine that expertise isn’t based mostly on zip code. Having the chance to help the rise of the creator economic system will make well-earned house for a wider and extra various vary of creators who can deal with their craft vs. questioning in the event that they’ll have the resourcing to proceed. I take into consideration the numerous creatives in my life who needed to make robust trade-offs to convey their artwork to the world. I’m doing this for them and for these coming behind them!

The staff and tradition at Patreon are additionally equally inspiring. Having a possibility to serve alongside good, form, mission-driven colleagues solely fuels my want to go massive and drive far with this staff. After I replicate on a few of Patreon’s values, it makes me tremendous appreciative to affix a neighborhood with values aligned with my very own.

What are a few of the core rules and values you think about important for constructing and sustaining an ideal staff?

1. Tradition is a VERB and never a noun — that means it’s a day by day apply that we every have the ability to impression. This mindset is core to the behaviors that deepen engagement, improvement, and belonging to do our greatest work.
2. This one comes from my dental hygienist who jogged my memory that I ought to “floss the enamel that I need to hold.” I absolutely intend and have to hold all of my enamel, for the document, however this made me take into consideration the nice habits and practices that we should be constant about with a purpose to develop and scale our groups. The event conversations, offering suggestions, creating our administration muscle — these efforts and investments mixed assist to help wholesome, high-performing groups.
3. Assume with wholes and never components. Final yr reminded us that many people don’t have the posh to examine components of who we’re on the door when coming to work. Whether or not it was organising tablets for our kids to allow them to attend class, reeling from a social injustice that hit too near dwelling, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life, our humanness comes with us to work day-after-day. The extra that we are able to make house for ourselves and our colleagues and lead with curiosity, empathy, and motion, the extra we are able to make room for deeper inclusion, collaboration, and achievement.