Overview In this role, you will lead Axon's global talent acquisition function, shaping strategy and building a high-caliber, data-driven team. You'll partner with senior leaders across R&D to scale technical and product hiring, while ensuring fast, high-quality, inclusive outcomes. You'll design systems and insights to improve hiring speed and candidate experience, balancing ambition with operational excellence. This is a mission-driven opportunity to influence how Axon attracts world-class talent and sustains growth.
Compensation / Benefits- Competitive salary
- 401k with employer match
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Learning & Development programs
Responsibilities- Own global R&D Talent Acquisition outcomes with autonomous direction and executive alignment
- Act as an enterprise leader, anticipating issues, deciding quickly, and driving closure amid ambiguity
- Translate business strategy into clear hiring plans, priorities, and capacity models
- Establish an executive operating rhythm for pipeline health, forecast accuracy, and tradeoff decisions
- Hold hiring leaders to standards on role clarity, assessment quality, interview discipline, and timely decisions
- Build and scale a high-performing recruiting organization through leadership development and performance management
- Own and optimize the global recruiting system end-to-end for speed, quality, and candidate experience across functions
- Use funnel analytics and market intelligence to remove bottlenecks and improve offer outcomes
- Drive ATS discipline, data hygiene, and automation to enable scalable operations
- Partner with technical/product leaders to design job-relevant assessments and structured interview plans
- Build durable sourcing and talent intelligence strategies for hard-to-hire technical markets
- Deliver executive reporting linking insights to decisions, actions, and measurable results
Key requirements- 10+ years in Talent Acquisition or HR with talent management and performance management
- Experience recruiting across multiple disciplines and levels (exempt, nonexempt, leadership)
- Bachelor's degree in HR or related field
- Proven recruiting leader with meaningful people leadership experience
- Successful track record in technical hiring and influencing senior leaders
- Strong delivery orientation in fast-changing environments
- Executive presence
- High data fluency with funnel metrics and market data
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and keep teams moving
- Experience leading recruiting across regions and cultures, time zones
- Experience scaling teams in high-growth settings
- Experience modernizing TA through automation, talent intelligence, and process redesign
- Strong reputation for truth-telling and solutions
- Executive presence
- Strong communication
- Collaboration and cross-functional partnership
- Funnel analytics and market intelligence
- ATS discipline, data hygiene, and automation
- Structured interview plans and job-relevant assessments
