Opportunity for Impact - Senior Director Marketing Diligent Employee Review

5.0
Aug 15, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

While impacting the business, your team and your career often feel incremental at larger organizations — the opportunity to make an impact at Diligent is massive. Joining Diligent has allowed me to bring industry knowledge and best practices to the organization while also widening the aperture of my experience and remit. It's refreshing and rewarding to work at an organization where leadership is receptive to new ideas and willing to invest in people and projects.

Cons

The breakneck velocity at which we move and competing priorities are challenging. However, I am confident that these will improve as the organization, processes, and teams continue to mature.

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Diligent Response
3y
Thank you for such a wonderful review. It’s great to hear that you’re able to make an impact and that you find your work here at Diligent both refreshing and rewarding! While we are a fast-growing, international organization, we pride ourselves on our culture of openness to change. Colleagues like you, who bring new points of view and fresh ideas, are key to our continued growth and success. This also applies to our internal business processes — we are constantly focused on ways to streamline and improve by using tools like V2MOMs (our internal goal setting process) to address things like competing priorities. If you have specific ideas and feedback as we forge ahead in this journey, we would love to hear them! Please do speak with your manager or ELT member and thank you again for your service to Diligent. - Avigail Dadone, Chief People Officer

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2.0
Mar 11, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The product is market-leading, and the space is genuinely interesting. There's no shortage of smart, capable people at Diligent. A lot of talented managers exist within the org who could do more if given the room.

Cons

Direction changes constantly — sometimes it feels quarter over quarter. The result is widespread burnout and an inability to execute. Senior leaders rarely push back on the CEO, which means teams absorb every strategic shift without warning or context. HR leadership prioritizes serving the executive team over the broader employee population. The HR team is stretched thin and operates more like a compliance function than a culture or development partner. (Turnover within HR leadership has been notable.) Pay is below market. The equity program is opaque, poorly managed, and functions more as a retention mechanism than a genuine benefit (with no clear path to liquidity). There's a meaningful gap between what the company says it stands for—especially around employee experience—and what it actually delivers internally.

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Diligent Response
2mo
Thank you for taking the time to share such thoughtful feedback about your experience. We truly appreciate you recognizing the strengths of our product and the talent across our team, and we’re glad to hear the space feels interesting and compelling. We also recognize that as a company focused on governance, risk and compliance, that it’s critical to hold ourselves to the same high standards internally. Through our monthly pulse surveys, we listen to our team, learn and actively work to strengthen any areas of feedback from alignment to transparency, or accountability across our leadership teams. In fact, one of our OKRs is focused solely on ensuring we have an empowered and accountable team, which we rally around as an organization. We appreciate other sources of feedback like yours, as it is an important part of that effort. Our People team is committed to supporting an elevated employee experience and continuously improving how we listen, respond, and evolve. While we won’t always get everything right on the first try, we are highly focused on continuing to iterate and making meaningful progress to ensure our actions reflect our values. We encourage continued feedback and appreciate you sharing your perspective. If you’d like to provide any additional context, please feel free to reach out at: HRConfidential@diligent.com
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