We are looking for a Director of Talent Acquisition, SG&A to lead recruiting for some of the most critical functions at Axon, including senior leadership, C Team aligned hiring, and global SG&A teams across sales, corporate, operations, and manufacturing functions.
Location: Onsite at our Office in Seattle, WA 4 days a week
Reports to: SVP of Talent Acquisition
Direct Reports:
Lead Talent Acquisition strategy and execution for SG&A functions, including executive aligned hiring and critical leadership roles.
Partner directly with senior executives, C Team stakeholders, HR leaders, Finance, and business leaders to translate workforce priorities into clear hiring strategies.
Build and lead a high performing recruiting team that operates with urgency, precision, accountability, and strong business judgment.
Own portfolio health across hiring demand, recruiter capacity, funnel performance, quality of hire indicators, diversity outcomes, candidate experience, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Raise the hiring bar through strong intake discipline, calibrated scorecards, structured interview practices, talent market insight, and decisive close strategies.
Bring a global lens to recruiting, helping the company scale across regions while balancing local nuance with enterprise consistency.
Use data to identify bottlenecks, forecast risk, challenge hiring plans, and guide executive level decisions.
Drive AI and automation adoption across the recruiting lifecycle, including sourcing, workflow optimization, reporting, interviewer enablement, candidate engagement, and operational efficiency.
Build scalable recruiting playbooks for repeatable leadership hiring, confidential searches, critical roles, and new market expansion.
What You Bring
8+ years of experience leading Talent Acquisition for SG&A, corporate functions, executive recruiting, or complex global hiring portfolios, with 3+ managing managers.
Proven success partnering with C level or senior executive stakeholders in a fast paced, high growth environment.
Experience building, scaling, and leading recruiting teams through ambiguity, transformation, and aggressive business growth.
Strong executive presence, business acumen, and the ability to influence leaders who have high expectations and limited time.
Deep understanding of recruiting operations, funnel analytics, recruiter productivity, workforce planning, and hiring governance.
A track record of improving quality, speed, consistency, and stakeholder confidence across large or complex recruiting portfolios.
Comfort operating in a data rich environment, with the judgment to know what the numbers say and what they do not say.
Practical experience using AI, automation, tools, and process design to make recruiting teams faster, smarter, and more scalable.
High standards, low ego, excellent judgment, and the ability to lead through both inspiration and accountability.
We are looking for someone who makes the team better. Someone who brings clarity when things are messy, calm when things are urgent, and ambition when others are settling. The work is not easy. That is the point.
Work Location
This role is based out of our Seattle Office and follows a hybrid schedul
Benefits
Health insurance
Additional Information
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.
Axon · Seattle, WA