Keri Ohrich

Keri Ohrich covers HR technology and people management tools at Topickz. She is a SHRM-SCP certified HR professional with 20 years of experience running HR functions at growth-stage and public companies. That means she has lived through every major HRIS implementation wave, from on-premise to cloud to the current generation of AI-assisted tools.

What Keri covers

• HRIS platforms (Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, Gusto, Personio, Hibob)
• Applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, iCIMS)
• Performance management (Lattice, Culture Amp, 15Five, Betterworks)
• Compensation and benefits (Pave, Radford, Carta, Bennie)
• Learning management systems (Cornerstone, Docebo, 360Learning)

Testing approach

Keri tests HRIS platforms by running a simulated company lifecycle: onboard 25 test employees, configure org structure with 3 levels, build a PTO policy with accrual rules, process a payroll run, and test the offboarding flow including documentation handoff. The implementation time clock starts from blank account and stops at first payroll run.

For ATS platforms, she creates a job opening, runs a full pipeline (50 test applicants, 5 stages, structured interview scorecard), and tests the offer letter workflow. The structured interview and scorecard quality gets particular attention because that is where most ATS tools show their age.

Background

Keri has held VP of People and Chief People Officer roles at technology companies. She has run HR implementations ranging from BambooHR at 40-person startups to Workday at 3,000-person enterprises. She holds the SHRM-SCP certification and has deep expertise in compliance, compensation benchmarking, and organizational design.

How to reach Keri

For corrections, vendor briefings, or tool suggestions in HR technology and people management, contact us via the Contact page and we will route to Keri.