• by Colin Kirkland , October 16, 2024

Meta's HR lead Lori Goler will be leaving the company next summer, according to an internal note obtained by Axios, which named Janelle Gale, a 12-year Meta employee, as Goler's eventual replacement.

Goler, who began her career in Disney’s consumer products division, has headed “all aspects of People strategy and operations at Meta” for over a decade, including recruiting, people development, performance, compensation, DEI, benefits, and overall organizational effectiveness.

During her time at Meta, she has overseen the firm's employee base from 500 people in 2008 to over 70,000 today, experiencing the tech giant becoming a publicly traded company in 2012 and then helping build out the infrastructure integral to dealing with Meta's worst regulatory challenges, like the infamous Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

With Goler's future absence, Meta's C-suite will further evolve.

After years of working to devise a culture aiming to champion women in tech, Goler follows other veteran Meta executives who have recently left the company, including ex-COO Sheryl Sandberg, who left Meta in 2022 and stepped down from its board earlier this year, as well as CRO David Fischer and his replacement Marne Levine, who both departed the company after each spending over a decade there.

Goler says her time at Meta has “been the privilege of a lifetime.”