Employee Experience Specialist- Temp role for 9 months

Axonius is seeking a proactive Employee Experience Specialist to cover a 9-month maternity leave, joining our People team. You will act as a key culture builder, designing and executing meaningful engagement initiatives that shape our organizational identity. This role blends hands-on event production with strategic ownership of experience to foster a connected, people-focused workplace. Responsibilities End-to-End Event Production: Plan and execute cross-site social gatherings, internal programs, and professional off-sites, managing everything from conceptualization to on-site delivery. Budget & Vendor Management: Oversee program budgets using internal systems (Workday, Zip) and manage external vendor relationships, including sourcing, negotiation, and performance tracking. Employee Lifecycle Ownership: Manage the onboarding and offboarding experience, ensuring a seamless journey for new hires and maintaining employee milestone gifting programs. Data-Driven Engagement: Collect and analyze employee feedback through surveys to continuously improve the employee experience and support specialized internal work communities. Minimum Qualifications Experience: 2-3 years of proven experience in Employee Experience, Wellbeing, or Event Production roles. Operational Skills: Demonstrated experience in managing project budgets and navigating procurement workflows or internal financial systems. Vendor Relations: Proven track record of sourcing, negotiating, and managing external service providers and production companies. Availability: Ability to commit to a 9-month maternity leave cover with a hybrid office presence (twice weekly). Preferred Qualifications Industry Background: Experience working within the High-Tech or Cybersecurity sector. Technical Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Workday, Zip, or GroupHug platforms. Project Management: Ability to manage multiple high-priority events simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to partner effectively with senior leadership and cross-functional teams (IT, Finance, Legal). Creative Flair: Strong aesthetic sensibility and creativity in designing physical and digital employee experiences. Analytical Skills: Experience in building and deploying employee engagement surveys and interpreting results. #LI-ONSITE #LI-AZ1 About Axonius: Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence. Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world. Axonius makes it a priority to invest in our people with competitive compensation and benefits, growth opportunities, community-building, and so much more. Learn more about benefits at Axonius . At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. By submitting your application to us, you acknowledge that your personal data will be processed in accordance with our Global Job Candidate Privacy Noti