Talent Director

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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. Beginning with Axiom Station, successor to the International Space Station, the company is pioneering a next-generation orbital settlement that will foster groundbreaking innovation and research in microgravity and drive the global space economy of tomorrow. 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.

For more information about Axiom Space, visit *.
* Axiom Space fosters a work environment inclusive of all perspectives. We are the pioneers of commercial space, leading the transformation of low-Earth orbit into a global space marketplace. Our mission-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.
** POSITION SUMMARY
** We are looking for a Director of Talent to own the full lifecycle of how Axiom finds, grows, and retains the people we need that aligns with the long-term business objectives. This role reports to the Chief People Officer (CPO) and spans four interconnected domains: talent acquisition, workforce planning & reporting, learning & development, and talent management. 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. 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. Understanding the Axiom Space employee profile will shape every decision, every action, and every design.

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. If you want to build something, work on hard problems, and be held accountable to outcomes that matter, this is the right place.
** KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
** You will own:##
** Talent acquisition
*** Design and enforce the offer target from posting to signed offer across all active requisitions by owning the SLA framework for every stage: position description approval, posting live, first screen, panel interviews, references, and offer.
* 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.
* Implement the redesigned interview framework specifically to align with an engineering organization focusing on accountability, skills, and grit.
* Train hiring managers on behavioral interviewing, decisiveness, and how to evaluate rigor objectively — including technical depth.
* Build calibration processes so interview panels give consistent, defensible assessments.
* Manage the internal recruiting team: hire, develop, and set performance expectations for recruiters and recruiting coordinators.
* Build a recruiting ops function that tracks every req in real time and surfaces aging searches before they become crises.
* Execute Axiom’s employer brand strategy.
* Build university and alumni pipelines for engineering talent, particularly in aerospace, technology, systems, and engineering disciplines.
* Represent Axiom credibly in the aerospace and defense talent community.##
** Workforce planning and reporting
*** 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.
* Build or optimize the ATS, sourcing stack, and recruiter workflows to support Axiom’s hiring volume and velocity targets.
* Build the data and reporting infrastructure to track talent health across the organization: flight risk indicators, high-performer…