# Gaurav Saini

> Gaurav Saini is the co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco AI platform that merges marketing and people operations so HR teams can run employee programs the way marketers run campaigns. A go-to-market and customer success operator, he has spent his career turning early-stage SaaS companies into scaling businesses, including senior growth roles at WorkSpan and UserVoice, and a stint co-founding the advisory firm GTM Venture Studio. At ChangeEngine he leads the charge to collapse the sprawl of HR point tools into one platform, often citing conversations with more than 100 HR teams as the source of the company's roadmap.

- **Role:** Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer at ChangeEngine
- **Organizations:** ChangeEngine, GTM Venture Studio, WorkSpan, UserVoice, Nexla, Movemedical, Salud Informatics, Realization Technologies, RealPage, Altius Education
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Business Management, San Jose State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded ChangeEngine, which has raised a total of $15.5M across seed and Series A rounds, Helped grow ChangeEngine's ARR 5x in a single year, Led customer success and growth at WorkSpan through a multi-year scaling phase

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Earns BS in Business Management from San Jose State University
- **2017** — Joins WorkSpan as Senior Director of Growth
- **2017-2020** — Promoted to VP of Customer Success & Growth, then VP of Sales Engineering & Business Strategy at WorkSpan
- **2020** — Co-founds GTM Venture Studio as Managing Partner, advising early-stage SaaS startups
- **2021** — Co-founds ChangeEngine in San Francisco
- **2022** — ChangeEngine launches its platform; later announces $5.5M seed funding
- **2024** — ChangeEngine raises $10M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (May 8, 2024)

## Achievements

- Co-founded ChangeEngine, which has raised a total of $15.5M across seed and Series A rounds
- Helped grow ChangeEngine's ARR 5x in a single year
- Led customer success and growth at WorkSpan through a multi-year scaling phase
- Co-founded GTM Venture Studio to support market validation, GTM strategy and early-stage SaaS investment
- Built ChangeEngine's customer organization around consolidating fragmented HR tooling into one platform

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — ChangeEngine closed a $10M Series A led by Threshold Ventures, with Struck Capital and Bonfire Ventures participating.
- **2025-05** — Saini shared insights from 100+ HR teams and positioned ChangeEngine's 'Execution Blueprint AI' as a way to consolidate six to seven tools into one.

## Links

- Website: https://www.changeengine.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravsaini1/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/gsaini29

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Last updated: 2026-06-29