Join Axon and be a Force for Good.
At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.
Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.
Your Impact
As an Executive Recruiter supporting the CFO/COO organization at Axon, you will play a pivotal role in identifying and hiring the leaders who will drive our mission to protect life, accelerate justice, and bring transparency to public safety. With expertise in market trends, talent landscapes, and advanced recruiting methodologies, you will serve as a strategic business partner to senior leaders and hiring teams. Your ability to blend data-driven insights, strategic influence, and exceptional relationship management will enable you to deliver impactful hiring results. In this role, you will champion our values and help shape Axon’s leadership pipeline, ensuring alignment with our vision and business goals.
Location: Axon US hub site (greater Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC metro areas)
What You’ll Do
- Strategic Talent Partnership:
- Collaborate across multiple departments to develop, prioritize, and execute hiring strategies.
- Showcase an in-depth understanding of Axon’s business lanes, company goals, key milestones, and measures of success that fosters a consultative and strategic business partner relationship with executive leadership.
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders and cross-functional partners to act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, guiding them on hiring needs, market trends, and workforce planning.
- Own and execute deep strategic insights on market trends, talent landscapes, and internal staffing needs to meet and exceed hiring expectations and overarching GTA M&Ms.
- Full-Cycle Executive Recruitment:
- Lead the recruitment lifecycle for senior and executive-level roles, from ideal candidate profile ideation, through sourcing and engagement, to offer negotiation and onboarding.
- Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with executive candidates, acting as a guide and advocate throughout the candidate and employee lifecycle.
- Sourcing and Pipeline Development:
- Leverage advanced sourcing methodologies to build robust talent networks that proactively turn prospects into candidates.
- Maintain a strong pipeline of passive senior-level talent for future needs, ensuring readiness to meet critical business demands and cultivate proactive recruiting strategies.
- Analyze and report on sourcing channel effectiveness, using data to refine strategies and continuously improve outcomes.
- Data-Driven Recruiting:
- Serve as the owner of recruiting data analytics- showcasing strong operational excellence and using insights to identify gaps, analyze trends, and implement solutions that drive hiring success.
- Develop systems and metrics to monitor internal and external trends, including talent pools, competition, costs, and retention.
- Use quantitative and qualitative insights to inform hiring strategies and provide actionable recommendations to leadership teams.
- Candidate Experience and Influence:
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience, maintaining timely communication and ensuring candidates feel valued and receive the “yellow carpet” experience throughout the process.
- Demonstrate strong negotiation skills to craft and deliver complex offers while maintaining credibility and objectivity with senior candidates.
- Influence senior and executive-level debriefs, providing thought leadership and ensuring alignment and balanced decision making.
- Collaboration and Best Practices:
- Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in executive recruiting, keeping up to date with the broader market and sharing best practices that elevate the hiring process (inclusive of interviewing, assessing, and persuasively engaging with top tier leadership talent).
- Coach and mentor recruiters on advanced sourcing, interviewing, and recruiting methodologies.
What You’ll Bring
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Experience: Minimum 5+ years of experience in executive or senior-level recruiting, with a proven track record of success in high-growth, competitive industries.
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Expertise: Deep knowledge of market trends, talent landscapes, and advanced sourcing techniques, including Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other innovative tools.
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Business Acumen: Strong understanding of organizational dynamics and the ability to articulate team vision, priorities, and metrics effectively to candidates and hiring teams.
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Data Literacy: Ability to interpret and act on data insights to influence hiring strategies and continuously improve processes.
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Relationship Management: Exceptional ability to build trust and rapport with executives, candidates, and external partners, including search firms.
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Negotiation and Influence: Skilled in navigating complex negotiations, influencing stakeholders, and driving results in high-stakes recruitment processes.
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Leadership and Collaboration: A proactive, solutions-oriented approach with a passion for mentoring and enabling hiring teams to achieve their goals.
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Customer Focus: Commitment to delivering outstanding experiences for both internal stakeholders and executive candidates.
Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.
Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Important Notes
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected]. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
