About Lattice

Our mission is to make work meaningful

Lattice works with People teams across the globe to turn employees into high performers, managers into leaders, and companies into the best places to work.

Develop engaged &
high-performing teams

People spend most of their waking hours at work — our goal is to make those hours better.
Lattice works with People teams across the globe to turn managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

3,250+

Organizations trust Lattice

1.67M

Pieces of Feedback Shared

10,250+

Resources for Humans Community Members Join the Community!

Our Leadership

Jack Altman

CEO & Co-founder

Jack Altman

CEO & Co-founder

Jack Altman is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Lattice. He is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller People Strategy, a contributing writer for Forbes Tech Council as well as multiple HR publications, and a frequent HR industry event speaker.

Prior to launching Lattice, Jack was the VP of Business and Corporate Development at Teespring, an e-commerce platform, and was also an early-stage venture capital investor. Jack earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton.

Fun Fact

Jack considers himself a ‘reasonably competitive’ Super Smash Bros N64 player.

Eric Koslow

CTO & Co-founder

Eric Koslow

CTO & Co-founder

Eric Koslow is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lattice where he oversees the Product Development team and works closely with the Privacy and Security, Data Governance, and IT teams. Prior to this position, Eric held leadership engineering positions at Teespring, 8thLight and FoundersCard. Eric developed much of the original technology behind Lattice.

Fun Fact

Eric watches an average of 20 hours per week of YouTube content to learn topics ranging from Law to Farming.

Rich Liu

Chief Operating Officer

Rich Liu

Chief Operating Officer

Rich Liu is the Chief Operating Officer at Lattice and leads the company’s go-to-market efforts. Before joining Lattice, Rich served as Chief Revenue Officer at TripActions and led mission-driven go-to-market teams at MuleSoft/Salesforce, Facebook, and Fisher Investments. Rich earned his degree in biomedical engineering from Yale University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two daughters.

Fun Fact

Rich spent his youth living in California, Beijing, and Singapore, where he once won a nation-wide a capella contest.

Dini Mehta  

Chief Revenue Officer

Dini Mehta  

Chief Revenue Officer

Dini Mehta is the Chief Revenue Officer at Lattice, where she leads the company’s Sales team. Before joining Lattice, Dini was most recently at Drawbridge, acquired by Linkedin in 2019, for over 5 years where she scaled the global sales organization to 50 employees and over $60M+ in revenue. Prior to that she has had similar roles in hyper growth startups including Quantcast, Yume and Kosmix, acquired by Walmartlabs. She is passionate about building and scaling world-class sales organizations with a strong culture.

Fun Fact

Dini almost became a scientist and is a published author in the Journal of Neurochemistry (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17596212/).

J Zac Stein

President, Chief Product Officer

J Zac Stein

President, Chief Product Officer

J Zac Stein is the President, Chief Product Officer at Lattice where he oversees the Engineering, Product, Design, IT & Security teams. Prior to Lattice, J Zac was the GM and VP at Zenefits where he built, launched and scaled the payroll business before leading company-wide operations. He also co-founded and led Ceiba College Prep, a nonprofit public charter school that prepares historically disadvantaged students for college and life.

Fun Fact

It’s not a typo, there’s actually no period after the “J” … that’s just his name!

Gillian Heltai

Chief Customer Officer

Gillian Heltai

Chief Customer Officer

Gillian Heltai is Chief Customer Officer at Lattice where she leads the Customer Experience and People Advisory Services teams. Prior to joining Lattice, Gillian held a variety of customer leadership roles, most recently as Senior Vice President at Talkdesk, and spent much of her career in survey and behavioral research analytics. Gillian holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Psychology from University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford.

Fun Fact

Gillian is still thinking of the fun fact that will rock your socks off.

David Cain

Chief Marketing Officer

David Cain

Chief Marketing Officer

David Cain is the Chief Marketing Officer at Lattice responsible for the company's global marketing strategy. Prior to joining Lattice, David led marketing teams at several high-growth software companies including Autodesk, PlanGrid, Marketo, SuccessFactors and OpenTable.com. David holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Fun Fact

David has lived in 3 countries and 7 states, and is not done yet!

Josh Brown

SVP of Finance

Josh Brown

SVP of Finance

Josh Brown is the Senior Vice President of Finance at Lattice, where he leads the company’s Finance, Business Operations, Analytics and Legal teams. Prior to joining Lattice, Josh led finance teams at Sift and Opal where he focused on scale and growth investments. Previously, he held various leadership positions at Jive Software, where he helped the company through its IPO. Josh holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Oregon.

Fun Fact

Josh grew up competing in horse and rodeo shows.

Stephen Poletto

VP of Engineering

Stephen Poletto

VP of Engineering

Stephen Poletto is Vice President of Engineering at Lattice. Prior to Lattice, Stephen spent 8 years at Dropbox, building and scaling teams across mobile, release infrastructure, and new products (Dropbox Paper). Stephen strives to create diverse and inclusive teams, where engineers are heavily involved in shaping the products we build.

Fun Fact

Stephen served a brief stint as an on-air disc jockey for a mid-market commercial radio station.

Dave Carhart

VP of People

Dave Carhart

VP of People

Dave Carhart is the Vice President of People at Lattice, leading our recruiting and HR teams. Most recently Dave led the People team at Branch Metrics, a mobile analytics startup which scaled from 150 to 400+ during his time there. Before that, he led the People Partner and Compensation teams at Mulesoft through their successful IPO and acquisition by Salesforce. He started his career in a variety of HR roles across HP including workforce planning, HR M&A, talent management and HR Business Partnering. He loves to play board games, bike, bowl and get outside to cycle.

Fun Fact

Dave can juggle and spin fire.

Jared Erondu

VP of Design

Jared Erondu

VP of Design

Jared Erondu is Vice President of Design at Lattice, where he leads the company’s Brand Design, Product Design, and Research teams. Prior to Lattice, Jared was the Director of Design at Teespring and a founding designer at Omada Health. He’s deeply passionate about community, emerging tech, and knowledge-sharing. In the past, he’s created design projects like High Resolution (design leadership video series streamed 6M+ times) and Playbook (and knowledge-sharing community of 6k+).

Fun Fact

Jared is an avid billiard/pool player and has competed at local, regional, and state levels. It’s been a while since he’s competed, but he’s always up for a quick game.

John Sherer

VP of Sales

John Sherer

VP of Sales

John Sherer is VP, Sales at Lattice. He leads the company's Sales Development, Enablement, SMB, and MM teams. Prior to Lattice, John was the first employee at Appcues and over five years grew into the VP, Sales role. He's currently building a vinyl collection.
If you have any strong recommendations, please reach out.

Fun Fact

John claimed victory in a 100 person rock paper scissors tournament using only rock.

Stephanie Waldner

VP of Customer Success

Stephanie Waldner

VP of Customer Success

Stephanie Waldner is the Vice President of Customer Success at Lattice where she leads the Customer Success team responsible for ensuring value delivery to Lattices’ customers. Prior to Lattice, Stephanie led customer success functions in several high-growth organizations including BetterCloud and Indeed. She’s passionate about travel and has visited 23 countries and counting.

Fun Fact

Stephanie once took a two-month road trip to Alaska.

Rob Karel

VP of Product and Segment Marketing

Rob Karel

VP of Product and Segment Marketing

Rob Karel is the Vice President of Product and Segment Marketing at Lattice where he leads the product marketing team responsible for creating differentiated, provocative, and relevant messaging that resonates with Lattice customers and prospects everywhere. Prior to Lattice, Rob held a variety of marketing, product and strategy roles at Okta, Informatica, Forrester Research, Intuit, Cisco Systems and Thomson Financial.

Fun Fact

Rob considered majoring in music and once played a gig at the Elbo Room.

Juliet Strong

VP of Marketing EMEA

Juliet Strong

VP of Marketing EMEA

Juliet Strong is the VP Marketing EMEA at Lattice, responsible for creating and delivering our EMEA marketing strategy. Prior to joining Lattice, Juliet was Vice President of International Marketing at Pendo. She has also held senior marketing positions at global software companies including Anaplan, Nintex, Metalogix and Microsoft; as well as acting as a marketing advisor to a wide range of hyper-growth SaaS businesses.

Fun Fact

Juliet is a keen traveller and has visited 15 countries around the world but has at least another 15 in her bucket list!

Robert Scott

VP of Legal

Robert Scott

VP of Legal

Robert Scott is the VP of Legal and is responsible for all things legal at Lattice. Prior to joining Lattice, Robert served as the General Counsel for a marketing tech SaaS company for 7 years, worked as outside counsel in a corporate law firm, and most recently built and grew his own corporate law firm, Jibe. He has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a JD from Lewis & Clark Law School.

Fun Fact

Prior to law school, Robert worked in several other industries, as a glassblower, winemaker, and a bouncer.

Amy Palmer

VP of Revenue Marketing

Amy Palmer

VP of Revenue Marketing

Amy Palmer is the VP of Revenue Marketing at Lattice, where she leads the marketing teams responsible for growing business pipeline and achieving revenue targets. Prior to Lattice, Amy held marketing leadership roles at Autodesk, PlanGrid, Pentaho, Marketo, and other high-growth B2B SaaS companies. Amy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, daughter, and rescue mutt.

Fun Fact

In her early twenties, Amy worked for the City of New York’s civilian oversight agency investigating allegations of police misconduct.

A partner you can trust

See all awards

Fastest Growing Companies list (22nd)

Best Places to Work

Most Innovative Companies

Customer Service Department of the Year (Silver)

Top 50 Startups on the Rise

Top Y Combinator Companies  (by valuation)

Top 100 Fastest Growing Products

San Francisco Business Times

Best Places to Work in the Bay Area

Silicon Valley Business Journal

Best Places to Work in the Bay Area

Okta Businesses  @ Work

Fastest Growing Companies (#6)

BuiltIn

100 Best Places to Work - SF Bay Area

Momentum Leader

Gartner

Top 100 Fastest Growing Products

Glassdoor

4.8 Company ranking

Comparably

A+ Culture score

Capterra

Top 20 Performance Appraisal Software

Lattice Belonging

Culture and Inclusion

At Lattice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging are not just an “initiative;” it's a business priority that is part of everything we do — across our strategy, programs, and processes. It’s an essential part of making work meaningful for everyone.

Lattice Ladies

Lattice Ladies advances the professional development and empowerment of women in tech through education, mentorship, and cross-functional connection, with the ultimate goal of building a more inclusive workplace.

Latticians Organizing for Unity  & Diversity

LOUD advocates for and elevates those  who identify as people of color by helping make Lattice a more diverse, equitable,  and inclusive workplace.

Pride at Lattice

PRIDE aims to create an inclusive and safe space for those who identify as LGBTQ through education and community engagement.

Accountability

At Lattice, we strive to constantly build an inclusive culture. We challenge ourselves with  a daily commitment to seek diversity and foster inclusion and track our results to make sure that we’re staying true to our promises.

How Lattice Will Show Up in the Fight Against Racism

In July 2020, we published our commitments in an article and plan to report our metrics to ensure we stay accountable.

Read Now

Our mission is to make work meaningful

Develop engaged &high-performing teams

A partner you can trust

Accountability

How Lattice Will Show Up in the Fight Against Racism

Develop engaged &
high-performing teams