Ubisoft hires ex-Uber HR director as unusual chief other folks officer

Ubisoft has stumbled on its unusual chief other folks officer in Anika Grant, a as soon as senior director of HR at Uber and worldwide HR director at Dyson with nearly two a protracted time of trip in HR leadership.

As Ubisoft unusual CPO, Grant sees herself heading up the French company’s worldwide recruiting, skill administration, leadership vogue, compensation and advantages, and the progress of its organizational performance.

This foremost HR rent particularly follows a yr stuffed with several accusations of harassment, misconduct, and mismanagement levied in opposition to high-ranking Ubisoft workers and Ubisoft’s subsequent promise to overtake the studio culture that allowed a sample of misconduct to use use at more than one Ubisoft studios.

In a press liberate, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says that making sure healthy studio culture will possible be one of Grant’s areas of point of curiosity.

“Working alongside me, Anika’s mission will consist of aligning all our HR teams with a sturdy, shared vision, building a sturdy skill pipeline, and imposing modern and unusual techniques of working,” says Guillemot. “Anika might perhaps presumably also be focusing her leadership efforts on strengthening our worldwide company culture, making sure that all our teams can thrive in an atmosphere that promotes a culture of admire, selection, inclusion and collective wellbeing.” 

Whereas Grant’s most most in model role saw her at Dyson, her previous 3 years at Uber makes her the second main rent from the glide-part company Ubisoft has made since its studio culture used to be put below a principal-wanted microscope, following the appointment of Raashi Sikka as its VP of worldwide selection and inclusion final December.