Matthew Dyason is a senior human resources, operations, and transformation executive with approximately 30 years of professional experience spanning technology, retail, human resources, enterprise operations, risk management, and organizational transformation. Throughout his career, he has built a reputation for connecting people strategy with business outcomes, bringing structure to complex organizations, and improving the systems and processes that shape the employee experience. His professional philosophy is grounded in a straightforward purpose: help organizations improve. Whether leading a global People function, transforming HR operations, advising emerging organizations, or developing new business processes, Matthew approaches leadership with a combination of operational discipline, strategic thinking, and a commitment to creating better experiences for candidates, employees, leaders, and alumni.
Matthew currently serves as Vice President, People Team at Dataiku, where he is accountable for People Operations and Services, immigration and mobility, analytics, programs and projects, and technology. He develops and executes People Team strategy with an emphasis on change leadership and transformation while directing program and project management initiatives that strengthen workforce analytics and strategic decision-making. His position represents the convergence of several disciplines he has developed throughout his career: human resources leadership, operational excellence, technology, analytics, organizational change, and process improvement. Before becoming Vice President, he served as Senior Director on Dataiku’s People Team, contributing to the development and execution of its People strategy and transformation agenda.
Prior to Dataiku, Matthew served as Director of Human Resources at SeekOut, where his responsibilities encompassed strategic HR leadership, global talent acquisition, talent management and development, culture and engagement, compliance, total rewards, and data-driven decision-making. He worked with leaders and their teams to develop scalable HR strategies and create programs, processes, and tools designed to improve organizational effectiveness. Earlier, as Vice President of Human Resources and in other senior People leadership positions at Stash, Matthew was responsible for areas including total rewards, recruiting operations, People and Culture technology strategy, performance metrics, service delivery, HR process improvement, analytics, and cross-functional partnership. These roles reinforced his ability to move comfortably between enterprise strategy and the operational infrastructure required to execute it.
Matthew’s experience at Zoom further expanded his leadership across enterprise operational excellence and global People strategy. As Senior Director of Enterprise Operational Excellence, he was accountable for cross-functional operational excellence, organizational design, operating-model rigor, business frameworks, process improvement, and elements of M&A strategic planning and integration. In preceding Zoom leadership positions, he was responsible for global HR strategic planning, portfolio prioritization, M&A functions, organizational restructuring, business reviews, and complex enterprise initiatives. He also led global HR project portfolios and mentored project managers, business analysts, and cross-functional contributors, demonstrating an ability not only to manage transformation but also to build organizational capability around it.
At Salesforce, including his work supporting Tableau, Matthew concentrated on Employee Success operations and the intersection of people, technology, data, and organizational scale. His responsibilities included supporting global M&A and entity expansion, streamlining HR processes and workflows, optimizing systems, identifying technology solutions, conducting operational analysis, and developing company-wide HR operations metrics. During the transition of Tableau into Salesforce, he strategically moved HR operational work toward a globally shared services model, helping prepare the organization for acquisition while reducing friction in the employee experience. His subsequent experience with SeaGen, now associated with Pfizer, added responsibility for global HR services, employee data governance, benefits administration, analytics, HR systems, global mobility, compensation and equity processes, and long-range HR operations planning.
A particularly important chapter in Matthew’s career was his time at Amazon, where he worked across both AWS and Global Human Resources. As a Senior Program Manager and Process Engineer with AWS, he designed and re-engineered business processes, evaluated opportunities for cost savings, facilitated process workshops, supported technology and workflow enhancements, and established mechanisms for measuring performance and results. In Global Human Resources, he designed and implemented regional and global HR processes, partnered with technical development teams, optimized processes using cloud technology, and established performance measures and key indicators to evaluate progress and return on investment. This experience strengthened a career-long ability to translate complex organizational challenges into processes, measurements, technologies, and actions that can produce sustainable outcomes.
Matthew’s leadership foundation was shaped significantly during nearly 17 years with Nordstrom. His progression there encompassed risk management, human resources, finance, operations strategy, business architecture, process management, safety, business continuity, emergency planning, insurance, and enterprise risk. As Senior Applied Architect for Human Resources, Finance, and Operations Strategy, he identified business capabilities, processes, resources, risks, controls, and performance measures while partnering across enterprise, business, and technology architecture. Earlier, as Director of Risk Management, his responsibilities extended across environmental safety and health, business continuity, emergency planning and response, risk-management systems, and property and cyber insurance programs. The breadth and longevity of this experience gave Matthew an unusually multidimensional understanding of how people, risk, operations, technology, and business performance interact.
His career began in retail operations, including management experience with Gap, where he was responsible for sales, team hiring and development, merchandising, and fiscal management. That frontline operating background continues to inform his executive perspective. Matthew understands that strategy ultimately succeeds or fails through execution: through managers, employees, processes, customer interactions, measurements, and the everyday decisions occurring throughout an organization. His combination of retail operating experience and technology-sector leadership makes him particularly well positioned to contribute to organizations navigating growth, workforce transformation, operational complexity, or the intersection of people and emerging technology.
Matthew complements his executive experience with substantial academic and professional development. He earned a Master of Science in Human Resource Development from Villanova University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from California State University, Northridge. His professional development spans artificial intelligence in HR, data and analytics, organizational development, project portfolio management, IT service management, process mining and data science, brand and product management, operations management, and Lean Six Sigma. Among his credentials are SHRM-CP certification and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training, along with more recent education focused on artificial intelligence and its application within human resources. This combination reflects an executive who continues to develop his capabilities even after decades in leadership, particularly as technology, analytics, and AI reshape how organizations manage talent and work.
Matthew also brings extensive international exposure across Europe, the Middle East, North America, Latin America, South America, and Asia Pacific. His experience operating across geographic and organizational boundaries strengthens his appreciation for the complexities of global workforces, mobility, organizational culture, and scalable People practices. He is able to work and reside in both the United States and Canada without visa sponsorship, further supporting his capacity to engage with organizations operating across North American and international markets.
Beyond his corporate responsibilities, Matthew has increasingly extended his experience into advisory service. He currently serves as an advisor to Gonzaga University’s Customer Experience Certificate Program, where his role includes reviewing curriculum, encouraging professional development, providing case studies, and supporting the program’s connection to executives and working professionals. He has also served as an investor and advisor to Graphio.ai, an organization developing technology intended to provide insights into employee performance, potential, development, and retention while emphasizing supportive rather than surveillance-oriented applications. His broader advisory background has included organizations such as CultureBee and Parentfile.
Matthew’s influence also extends through professional associations, speaking, and community engagement. He has participated in conferences and SHRM chapter engagements, speaking on topics related to operations and human resource management. His professional affiliations have included SHRM, PMI, HRCI, APQC, Axelos, Reverb, and the Lake Washington Human Resource Association. Outside the corporate environment, he has supported veterans through volunteer work and has contributed to youth development through coaching roles with i9 Sports and Bellevue Soccer Club. These activities reinforce a leadership style centered not simply on organizational performance, but also on development, service, and helping others progress.
As Matthew pursues additional board and advisory opportunities, his motivation is centered on helping organizations drive meaningful business outcomes and improve their operational rigor, particularly across human resources and business operations. He brings a boardroom perspective informed by decades of experience working through growth, transformation, risk, technology adoption, M&A, process redesign, workforce strategy, and organizational change. For technology and retail organizations in particular, he offers the perspective of an executive who has experienced business from multiple vantage points—from frontline retail management and enterprise risk to global HR operations and senior People leadership.
Ultimately, Matthew’s career reflects a consistent belief that stronger organizations are created when people strategy and business strategy reinforce one another. He combines operational discipline with curiosity about emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, analytics, and process automation, while remaining focused on the human experience behind organizational systems. His value as an executive and advisor lies in his ability to see both the enterprise and the individual: to understand strategy at scale while recognizing that sustainable results depend upon processes people can execute, leaders people can trust, and organizational systems designed to help people perform at their best.
Character:
Matthew demonstrates character through a career centered on service, professional development, responsible leadership, and improving the experiences of the people within the organizations he serves. His advisory and volunteer commitments further demonstrate a willingness to invest his experience in developing others and contributing beyond the boundaries of his executive responsibilities.
Knowledge:
He brings approximately three decades of multidisciplinary knowledge spanning human resources, technology, retail, operations, risk, analytics, business process improvement, and organizational transformation. His continued professional education in areas such as artificial intelligence, data, Lean Six Sigma, HR development, and operations complements the practical knowledge gained through leadership roles at organizations including Dataiku, SeekOut, Stash, Zoom, Salesforce, Amazon, and Nordstrom.
Strategic:
Matthew approaches strategy as a bridge between organizational ambition and disciplined execution, using operating models, technology, analytics, processes, metrics, and workforce capabilities to turn objectives into measurable outcomes. His experience with transformation, M&A, global HR strategy, portfolio management, organizational restructuring, and operational excellence enables him to evaluate challenges from both enterprise and functional perspectives.
Communication:
Matthew has developed the ability to communicate complex operational and human-capital issues to executives, cross-functional stakeholders, managers, and employees in ways that support alignment and action. His conference and HR-focused speaking experience, combined with decades of leading workshops, executive briefings, change initiatives, and cross-functional programs, allows him to translate complex ideas into practical conversations that move organizations forward.
