Axle is the AI-native clearinghouse for insurance. Our infrastructure and AI agents automate complex insurance workflows between carriers and third parties including insurance verification, monitoring, and policy updates.

The multi-trillion dollar insurance industry still relies on phone calls, paper forms, and outdated systems that are slow, error-prone, and easy to fake.

That's where Axle comes in. We bridge the gap between insurance and other industries through an AI-native clearinghouse for insurance, enabling our clients to make business decisions in seconds instead of hours while allowing consumers to unlock their most underutilized financial asset - insurance.

We are backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Google's AI fund Gradient Ventures, and angels from companies like Plaid and Cox Automotive.

Our team is in-person 4 days a week in our New York (Chelsea) office and 3 days a week in Atlanta.

For more details, check us out at https://axle.insure.

Why you should consider joining

Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and top brands like Avis, Rocket Mortgage, and Experian - with more joining every month.
Revenue growing 35% QoQ to mid-7-figures ARR, with best-in-class retention and growth continuing to accelerate.
Backed by world-class investors: Y Combinator, Gradient (Google), and angels from Plaid and Cox Automotive.
Join a tight-knit team where everyone drives real impact - top-tier customer and revenue metrics with half the team size of typical startups.
Work on genuinely hard, unsolved problems at the intersection of agentic AI, complex data structuring, and financial risk.
Competitive compensation and equity, full benefits, unlimited time-off, and an annual team offsite.

What You'll Do

As Axle's first People Operations hire, you'll build the people function end to end and be the connective tissue between our hiring ambitions and the team experience that makes people want to stay and do the best work of their careers. This is a full-stack recruiting mandate: you'll lead hiring across the entire company - both our technical org (Engineering and Product) and our go-to-market org (Sales, Partnerships, and Deployment) - so fluency operating across two very different talent markets is essential.

This is a builder's role, and it will ebb and flow. In one stretch you might be running six open reqs at once; in another you'll be designing a performance review cycle from scratch. As a north star, expect roughly 50-75% talent (own every open req, source and manage external recruiters, run a great candidate experience, and drive the offer process end to end) and 25-50% people operations (onboarding, culture, L&D, performance management, and compensation bands). The mix will shift with the season; the bar won't - every new hire should feel set up to win from day one.

Talent & Recruiting

Own all open requisitions across both technical hiring (Engineering, Product) and go-to-market hiring (Sales, Partnerships, Deployment), plus Corporate roles - managing pipeline, calibration, and velocity across each.
Source, select, and manage our external recruiting partners (retained, embedded, and sourcing-only) and hold them accountable to results.
Administer and optimize (bringing AI) our ATS (Ashby) - from workflow automation to funnel reporting.
Design and run a candidate experience that "wows" - fast, personal, and consistent.
Drive the offer process end to end, from leveling and comp to close.
Standardize interview panels and train interviewers to keep our hiring bar calibrated as we scale.
Build Axle's employer brand and top-of-funnel talent pipeline through recruiting and talent-building events - hosted meetups, hackathons, happy hours, and community nights - with a particular focus on New York, where we're scaling fastest and building a young, in-office team out of our Chelsea office (152 W 25th St).