Scott Withycombe

Chief People Officer Snap Inc.

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Scott Withycombe is Chief People Officer of Snap Inc., the Santa Monica camera and social media company behind Snapchat, a role he has held since October 2022. He is an internal appointment in a function where companies of Snap’s size often hire from outside: he joined Snap in November 2017 as a human resources director and moved through four further roles in talent management, human resources and rewards before taking the top people job five years later. His remit covers the full employee lifecycle for a global workforce, and the practical reach of the job is visible in Snap’s public filings, where the offer letters appointing the company’s most senior executives carry his signature. His training is unusually international for a US technology HR leader, combining a Californian undergraduate degree with a master’s in international employment relations from the London School of Economics, and his earlier career was spent in aerospace and defence, satellite television and packaged foods rather than in technology.

Career Highlights

• Chief People Officer of Snap Inc. since October 2022, listed on the company’s investor-relations leadership page alongside CEO Evan Spiegel and CTO Robert Murphy.
• Signed the offer letter appointing Zachary Briers as Snap’s General Counsel, dated 24 October 2025, as Chief People Officer; the letter was filed publicly as Exhibit 10.17 to Snap’s Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 in February 2026.
• Appears in the same capacity on a compensation exhibit filed with Snap’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 31 March 2026, confirming he remained in post into 2026.
• Promoted through five successive human resources roles at Snap between November 2017 and August 2022, spanning HR Director, Senior Director of Human Resources, Senior Director of Talent Management, Senior Director of Talent & Rewards, and Vice President of Talent & Rewards.
• Built his earlier HR career outside technology, at DirecTV, Raytheon Company and Del Monte Foods, Inc.
• Holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics in International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, a specialist qualification in the comparative and cross-border side of the HR discipline.

Professional Journey

Withycombe’s early career was in industries with large, dispersed and often unionised workforces rather than in software. Snap’s own biography names Del Monte Foods, Inc., Raytheon Company and DirecTV among his prior employers, a sequence running from packaged consumer goods through aerospace and defence to satellite television. None of those sources gives his titles or dates at those companies, but the pattern is a conventional corporate HR apprenticeship in businesses where employment relations, compensation structures and scale hiring are core operational problems.

He joined Snap Inc. in November 2017, roughly eight months after the company’s March 2017 initial public offering, at a point when Snap was absorbing the organisational consequences of becoming a public company. He entered as a human resources director rather than at executive level, and spent the next five years working up through the function: Senior Director of Human Resources, Senior Director of Talent Management, Senior Director of Talent & Rewards, and then Vice President of Talent & Rewards. That progression kept him close to the two areas that dominate a public technology company’s people agenda, equity-heavy compensation design and senior talent, which is the background a Snap chief people officer needs.

In October 2022 he was promoted to Chief People Officer. The timing placed him in the job through a difficult period for Snap’s workforce, including the company-wide restructuring announced in the second half of 2022 and subsequent rounds of cost discipline as the business absorbed a downturn in digital advertising and a reorganisation of its engineering and sales organisations.

The scope of the role is evident from Snap’s SEC filings. Executive offer letters that Snap files as public exhibits are signed by Withycombe on the company’s behalf: the letter appointing Zachary Briers as General Counsel, dated 24 October 2025 and filed as an exhibit to Snap’s fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, carries his signature under the title Chief People Officer, as does a compensation exhibit filed with Snap’s first-quarter 2026 report. Those signatures are the clearest available public evidence that he continues to hold the post, and they place the people function at the centre of how Snap contracts with its most senior hires.

Education

Pepperdine University

B.A., Economics and Political Science

The London School of Economics and Political Science

M.S., International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management