Q Hamirani
About Q Hamirani
Q is a trusted advisor to founders, boards, C-Suites, people executives, VCs and reputed global accelerator programs like Techstars and PeopleTech Partners. He is a mission driven business-minded leader, public speaker and executive coach with a focus on people strategy and business operations. He provides valuable insights and drives sustainable change from his extensive first hand experience across his own startups, venture growth, private equity, management consulting, and Fortune 100 companies across 25+ countries. Most Recently, Q was an executive team member at a series D edtech startup where he was responsible for the People and Communication functions, which included Talent Acquisition, Public Relations, Internal and External communications teams. He played several interim executive roles to reshape the business strategy and operations, including leading the organization through workforce restructuring efforts, facilitating board alignment, redefining public relations and go-to-market (GTM) brand positioning, and leading Finance (accounting, equity and payroll) operations to help steer Paper towards a path to profitability. Before joining Paper, Q spent almost 5 years at Airbnb as their first global People Operations leader. He played a key role in designing and implementing Airbnb's people and talent operations function from the ground up, and led the company through significant milestones such as hyper growth, pandemic responses, workforce restructuring, IPO, and the future of work. One of Q's notable achievements was the ideation and incubation of Airbnb's Digital Nomad program in 2020. This program eventually evolved into Airbnb's formal Live & Work Anywhere program in 2022. By leveraging Airbnb's existing business model, Q helped position the company as an industry leader in the future of work, enabling employees to live and work from anywhere. To support this initiative, Q spearheaded the creation of a global Center of Excellence (COE) that brought together various teams to drive the vision and enhance the employee experience and business growth collectively. Q is also passionate about personal growth and continuously seeks to acquire new skills. He is an avid traveler, always exploring new destinations and cultural experiences. Furthermore, his love for music and film has led him to support emerging artists and filmmakers through his own record label and executive production roles for independent films.