Deel

Head of Communications

Background

Deel helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere. It’s global payroll for employees and contractors from around the world.

The problem

Deel had experienced unprecedented growth, achieving a $5.5B valuation in under two years from its founding. They needed to bring in executive talent fungible enough to succeed in a present day ~300 person company that would quickly scale to a complex and matrixed 3k+ organization in the near future.

Stage

Series D

Industry

FinTech, Human Resources

Funding

$679M+

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital

Plenty's solution

Plenty knew this role needed a candidate who not only participated in hyper-scale, but built processes to enable it and had done communications at a world-class level. Our researchers assembled an exhaustive list, and after narrowing down to a shortlist of top communications executives, Elizabeth’s experience and style stood out and she was hired within 5 weeks.

Elisabeth Diana

Elisabeth is an experienced comms executive, most recently serving as the VP of Communications at Robinhood. Prior to that, she led the global comms function at Instagram and, previous to that, spent 2 years reporting to and supporting Sheryl Sandberg as her Head of Communications.