Textio Appoints HXM Category Pioneer Meg Bear to Board of Directors

Former SAP SuccessFactors President joins board as Textio scales Lavalier, the structured interview platform for high-growth companies

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Textio, a leader in AI-powered tools that help high-growth companies recruit and coach high-performing teams, today announced the appointment of Meg Bear to its board of directors. Bear, the former President of SAP SuccessFactors and one of the most influential leaders in HR technology, joins Textio at a pivotal moment. The company is scaling Lavalier, its structured interview platform, built to help talent teams improve the consistency and quality of their hiring processes while significantly reducing time spent on manual orchestration.

"Few people have shaped HR tech the way that Meg has, and I’m immensely grateful she chose to join Textio at such a key moment for our team," said Colleen Gallagher, CEO of Textio. "Meg has a deep understanding of what talent acquisition leaders need, and how AI can help them deliver on their core outcome: hiring great people. We’re building a future where AI increases opportunities in recruiting and Meg is exactly who we need to help us realize this vision.”

Bear's appointment comes on the heels of being named to Human Resource Executive’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencers for 2026, recognizing the leaders who influence, shape and communicate how enterprise technology directly affects the workforce. She brings more than 30 years of experience building and scaling enterprise businesses, and a rare track record of not just competing in a category but creating one. As President of SAP SuccessFactors, Bear and her team defined the Human Experience Management (HXM) category, shifting the center of gravity in HR tech toward the needs of the people the technology serves.

Bear currently serves on the board of Novaworks, and is a non-executive director of Papaya Global, in addition to a strategic advisor for Degreed and Syndio. She also co-hosts The Meg and Amy Show, a podcast on AI transformation, leadership, and the future of work.

“Textio has a long history of building for an abundant future where technologies widen opportunities for everyone, not narrow them,” said Meg Bear, Textio board member. “Textio was the first to show recruiting teams that better job posts attract better candidates, and now they’re extending that same conviction to the interview: when you run better interviews, you make better hires. I’m honored to join this team and invest in the future they’re building.”

Bear's appointment will help Textio scale Lavalier, a category-defining platform for interview quality at scale, at a moment when talent leaders are under growing pressure to prove the quality of their hires and not just the speed of their process. Lavalier brings structure to interviews by anchoring every conversation to what the role requires, guiding interviewers in real time, and turning interviews into evidence teams can defend.

Textio was recently named to TIME America's Top WorkTech Companies 2026, highlighting impactful and financially strong companies that develop and provide workplace technologies, including software and hardware for HR, workforce management, employee experience and learning, and workplace operations.

To learn more about how Lavalier can help you run a more efficient and high-quality hiring process, visit: lavalier.ai

About Textio

Textio is a leader in building tools that help high-growth companies recruit and coach high-performing teams. The company's structured interview platform, Lavalier, helps talent acquisition teams make better hires in half the time with AI-powered intake, interview planning and support, and evidence-based candidate evaluations. Founded in 2014, people leaders at companies like Bloomberg, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, and Spotify choose Textio to help them attract and develop top talent. Textio was recently named to TIME America's Top WorkTech Companies 2026, in addition to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies list several times, the Fortune Impact 20, Forbes AI 50, and CNBC Disruptor 50. Get started with Lavalier by visiting: lavalier.ai