Director of Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Operations, Axion Ray
$185-205k
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AI-Powered program & quality management
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AI-Powered program & quality management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-205k
Offers Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower manufacturers to resolve the highest priority issues to create the best possible products for their customers.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record leading and scaling recruiting in a fast-paced, high-growth startup or enterprise SaaS environment
- Experience managing full-cycle recruiting for both technical and go-to-market roles
- Strong operational rigor: able to use data and dashboards to drive accountability, measure success, and improve processes
- Experience managing and developing recruiting teams, including performance management and career development
- Deep familiarity with modern ATS systems (ideally Ashby) and talent operations workflows
- Excellent communication and influencing skills; able to partner effectively with executives and cross-functional leaders
- High bar for candidate experience and culture fit; thoughtful about how recruiting reflects Axion’s mission and values
- You’re a builder and operator who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments. You take pride in getting things done — thoughtfully, efficiently, and without drama
- You’re energized by ambiguity, skilled at bringing clarity, and comfortable flexing between strategy and execution
- You value feedback — giving it, receiving it, and acting on it — and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden
- You’re low-ego but high-agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually
- You move quickly, communicate directly, and make decisions grounded in impact and data
- You don’t need constant direction — you create momentum. You take ownership for outcomes, and you expect the same from those around you
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Director, Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Operations to lead and scale Axion Ray’s recruiting function through our next phase of growth. This is a player-coach role — balancing hands-on recruiting for critical leadership and technical roles with strategic ownership of our end-to-end talent operations
- This leader will build scalable recruiting systems, develop the team, and ensure a world-class candidate experience. The role will also own pre-onboarding and recruiting-adjacent people operations such as headcount planning, talent mapping, and performance management for the recruiting team
- Talent Acquisition Leadership:
- Own Axion Ray’s overall recruiting strategy across EPD, GTM, and operations roles
- Manage a growing team of recruiters and talent operations professionals, including senior recruiters with leadership responsibilities for sourcing and recruiting operations
- Balance strategic planning with hands-on execution for priority roles and senior-level hires
- Partner with Finance and hiring managers to develop headcount plans aligned with company objectives
- Build and maintain a diverse, mission-aligned talent pipeline through proactive sourcing and relationship management
- Drive consistency and quality in interview processes — from calibration through offer — ensuring a candidate experience that reflects Axion’s values
- Develop and track recruiting metrics and KPIs (pipeline health, hiring velocity, quality of hire, cost per hire)
- Oversee recruiting systems (e.g., Ashby) and tools to optimize efficiency and data accuracy
- Collaborate with Marketing and leadership to strengthen employer branding and thought leadership in target markets
- Recruiting Operations & People Processes:
- Own pre-onboarding to ensure a smooth transition from offer acceptance to Day 1; partner with HRBP/Operations for broader onboarding
- Conduct performance reviews and coaching for direct reports, ensuring alignment with clear goals and metrics
- Partner with Finance on headcount and talent mapping to ensure alignment between hiring plans and budget
- Develop hiring manager training, interview calibration sessions, and process documentation to drive consistency and operational rigor
- Build the recruiting team’s career ladder and development framework to support growth and retention within the function
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure recruiting processes integrate seamlessly with downstream people and operations workflows
Our take
Engineering management is a slow and painstaking process. Axion Ray leverages data to solve this problem, and to help engineering leaders make better decisions.
Axion's focus on R&D acceleration and optimization has proven widely popular in the engineering world. The company counts some of the largest automotive and aerospace companies in the world among its partners, including Boeing and the US Air Force. Axion's AI is also geared toward risk management and metadata mining, which is a key draw for enterprise-scale clients.
Axion is active within an extremely competitive and high stakes industry. However, its potent technology and valuable partnerships is clear testament to the company's staying power.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$17.5m
SERIES A
Feb 2023
$7.5m
SEED
Total funding: $25m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Daniel First
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Advanced Analytics at QuantumBlack, and was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey.
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