{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Getting Personal with Compt","title":"Getting Personal Episode 42 | 98 Workflows and One Very Human Lesson with KK Mayo","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2438,"description":"What happens when HR stops talking about innovation in theory and starts building the systems that make it work?\nIn this episode of Getting Personal with Compt, Lauren sits down with KK Mayo, Senior Director of People Ops at Ava Labs, to talk about scaling a people function from 45 employees to 250, building better onboarding systems, and creating the “rails” that help fast-growing teams move without breaking.\nKK shares how her team thinks about automation, AI enablement, leadership buy-in, and the behind-the-scenes workflows that make People Ops more strategic and less reactive.\nIn this episode, we discuss: How KK helped scale Ava Labs’ People Ops function  Why efficiency creates more room for strategic thinking  The story behind Ava Labs’ 98 automated onboarding workflows  How a 90-day quality-of-hire workflow gives recruiting and managers better feedback  Why AI adoption should be shared across People Ops, security, and managers  What companies risk when AI policies exist “somewhere,” but employees don’t know what to do  The burnout lesson KK learned the hard way while scaling HR This conversation is about AI, automation, and systems, but more than that, it’s about building work in a way that doesn’t rely on one person holding everything together.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4PTwO-ILVlr9Lpv1ikI2JEwma3XVrB4F5YqJrIqT3W8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jY2Mw/MjM2ZTc4NjNmYTc0/YjAyOTM2MzgwN2I4/MGJjYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}