Ivy Roberts

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Founder & CEO, Ridge Health - HR tech · sales · SaaS

Ridge Health
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
10+ years experience
Wharton
English, Arabic
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Overview

I started Ridge Health to fix HR software for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $35 million across 3 rounds. Took Ridge Health from zero to $7 million ARR. Most at home with SaaS and HR tech.

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Skills
payrollsalesHR techSaaS
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Ridge Health is hiring 5 product designers in San Francisco

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$121k-$179k
Team
Founding team, 9 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $186k-$317k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKsalessaashr tech
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for code review for kirana stores

The idea
Code review for kirana stores
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
13 years in HR software
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
San Francisco or remote

I bring 10 years of HR software (currently Ridge Health). Ideally you've run operations in India. Full-time from day one.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKhr techsalessaas
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Feb 2023 - Present
    Ridge Health · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Signed 335 paying customers, 5 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $5 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
    Adobe · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on web by 38% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 19 launches on the web team without a rollback.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
    PayPal · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Grew the data platform team from 6 to 18 engineers.
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling HR software.

Write-up: HR software in practice
2024

A long-form guide to HR software for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Wharton
    MBA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2018
  2. Virginia Tech
    BS, Engineering
    2012 - 2016

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