Amanda Scales
Early life
Scales attended the University of California, Davis. During college, she interned for the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, while also teleworking for an internet startup based in Davis, CA. She joined the honors program at the College of Letters and Sciences in 2012.
Career
Private sector
Scales previously held talent acquisition positions at tech companies, including Uber, before joining xAI, an Elon Musk company.
Government work
In 2025, Scales was appointed to be Chief of Staff of the United States Office of Personnel Management. Scales was reportedly installed to carry out President Trump and Elon Musk's directives to purge large numbers of staff from the federal government; agencies were directed to send lists of potentially fireable employees directly to her. Scales is one of the only people with the authority to create exemptions for mass firings across federal agencies.
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