Axiom Space

Axiom Space

Talent Director

Houston · Director · Contract

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About the role

  • This role reports to the Chief People Officer (CPO) and spans four interconnected domains: talent acquisition, workforce planning & reporting, learning & development, and talent management.
  • You will be measured on outcomes and metrics.
  • This role is right for someone who has built a talent function before, not just one piece of it, knows what good looks like at a high-growth, aero-tech company, and is comfortable coaching senior leaders.

Responsibilities

  • This role oversees initiatives to build a high-performing workforce.
  • You will design the systems, set the standards, develop the partnerships, and be directly accountable to the outcomes that measure whether those systems are working.
  • Collaboration occurs daily with leadership, engineering and program leads, and the People Business Partners.
  • Understanding the Axiom Space employee profile will shape every decision, every action, and every design.
  • If you want to build something, work on hard problems, and be held accountable to outcomes that matter, this is the right place.
  • Axiom Space is a human space exploration company, building era-defining space infrastructure and delivering technology-driven solutions that will empower civilization to transcend Earth.
  • Build a recruiting ops function that tracks every req in real time and surfaces aging searches before they become crises.
  • Build university and alumni pipelines for engineering talent, particularly in aerospace, technology, systems, and engineering disciplines.
  • Partner with HRBPs and program leads to translate business milestones into headcount needs.
  • Maintain a real-time view of all open requisitions and report weekly to the CPO on hiring velocity, aging requisitions, offer acceptance rates, and 90-day new hire retention.

Requirements

  • Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation.
  • Must be willing to work evenings and weekends as needed to meet critical milestones.
  • The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  • Experience designing and running performance management, talent review, and succession planning processes, not just administering them.
  • Demonstrated track record of reducing time-to-fill at a growing organization.
  • Education & Experience
  • Required
  • Bachelor's degree in human resources, o rganizational development, industrial-organizational psychology, or possesses an approved combined equivalent of education and experience.
  • 10+ years of experience across talent acquisition, talent management, or learning & development, with 3+ years in a leadership role owning more than one of these disciplines.
  • Has designed an L&D or manager development program and can speak to, not only the rollout, but its business impact.
  • Has built and managed a multi-discipline talent team, recruiters, L&D, and talent management.
  • Knows how to run an agency search relationship effectively: write the brief, evaluate the shortlist, hold the firm accountable.
  • Comfortable delivering direct assessments to senior leaders - on their hiring process, their team's development gaps, or their own management effectiveness.
  • Able to build structure without bureaucracy and designs processes that move faster because that's who you are.

Nice to have

  • Operates with urgency by default
  • treats a stalled search or an untrained new manager as problems that need to be solved immediately.
  • Experience recruiting for aerospace, defense, or another safety-critical technical domain strongly preferred
  • Has built or significantly redesigned at least one talent function at a technology or engineering-driven company and can describe measurables.
  • Experience with ITAR-controlled hiring, security clearance processes, or government contractor workforce requirements a plus
  • Strategic thinker with operational execution capability with precision and pace.
  • Forges strong partnerships and influences change.
  • Strong project management discipline, highly organized, and takes ownership.

Skills

  • Passion for space and the mission.
  • Entrepreneurial, growth mindset.
  • Tech-solutioning in using systems and tools to move smarter and faster.
  • Core Competencies:
  • Embody our core values of Leadership, Innovation, and Teamwork.
  • Accountability
  • Technical Rigor
  • Execution Discipline
  • Pride of Delivery
  • Identify and remove every bottleneck in the current process.
  • Hold hiring managers accountable to their side of the process; escalate to the CPO when timelines slip without cause.

Compensation

  • Provide market intelligence on compensation, candidate availability, and competitor hiring activity.

Benefits

  • Today, guided by the vision of leading humanity's expansion off planet, Axiom Space is the principal provider of commercial human spaceflight services and developer of advanced spacesuits for the Moon and beyond.
  • Build the data and reporting infrastructure to track talent health across the organization: flight risk indicators, high-performer retention, internal mobility rates, and manager effectiveness scores.
  • talent acquisition, workforce planning & reporting, learning & development, and talent management.

Company info

  • driven team is seeking a bold and agile Talent Director who is fueled by high ownership, execution horsepower, growth mindset, and driven to understand our world, science/technology, and life itself, for the benefit of all on Earth and beyond.
  • At Axiom Space, we are doing something that has never been done before.
  • The engineering problems we are solving are genuinely hard, the stakes are real, and the people doing this work know it.
  • We are also in a period of organizational growth that is not without friction.
  • We are fixing complex things.
  • Management accountability, hiring velocity, retention of top performers are problems we are actively working on.
  • The person we are hiring for this role will be a part of the solution to those problems.
  • We are the pioneers of commercial space, leading the transformation of low-Earth orbit into a global space marketplace.

Equal opportunity

  • Axiom Space is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Experience with ITAR-controlled hiring, security clearance processes, or government contractor workforce requirements a plus
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