Zoe Weintraub Barrett

Vice President of Workforce & Strategic Partnerships | Guild

Zoe Weintraub Barrett is the Vice President of Workforce & Strategic Partnerships at Guild. She leads Guild's workforce development strategy focused to support their mission of unlocking opportunity for America's workforce.

Zoe has been a foundational member of the Guild team, joining in 2016 as one of the first 20 employees in the company’s infancy. She’s led the design of education and career mobility programs for some of the nation's leading companies, including Walmart, Target, Lowe’s, Waste Management, Hilton, Macy’s to name a few. In addition, she developed the “tuition-free” degree and more inclusive policy measures for education benefits to transform the industry and remove barriers like upfront payment and include wrap around support. Most recently she pioneered a multimillion dollar consortium funding model to support Team USA athletes gain access to upskilling opportunities and job placements after their competition.

Prior to Guild, Zoe has focused on early stage startups, including serving as a proud failed founder of a job platform for the hourly workforce, aimed at providing transparency to the job process. There she spent time working with both private and public partners including workforce centers and local foundations. Zoe has spent her career leading teams at other venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley where she focused her energies on Business Development and Strategy, including WePay, now a Chase company. Her roots are in Southern California where she graduated with a full academic scholarship from the University of Southern California, with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Digital Studies and Entrepreneurship.