Submissions Now Open for the 2027 Phenom HR Awards

Recognition Honors Innovators in Human Resources Turning AI Ambition into Proven Business Impact

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phenom, the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer, announced it is accepting submissions for its 2027 Phenom HR Awards. Now in its sixth year, finalists and winners earn prominent recognition among leading HR and HRIT professionals, along with third-party validation that strengthens the case for future investment, staffing and strategic growth.

The Phenom HR Awards spotlight organizations applying AI to solve critical workforce and operational challenges, improve experiences and help employees focus on high-value work. Honorees demonstrate significant, proven impact to business outcomes, including faster hiring, greater engagement, cost and time saved, and successful expansion from pilot to enterprise-wide deployment. This year’s 11 categories include:

Strategic Achievements

• AI Agent Pioneer: Deploys agents with purpose and precision, driving outcomes across distinct use cases that prove what agentic AI can do when it’s built into how work actually gets done
• Automation MVP: Puts automation to work where it matters most, cutting out manual busywork so HR teams can focus their time on higher-value work and better business outcomes
• Best Hiring Experience: Designs a hiring journey that works for everyone involved, with applied AI driving smarter decisions, faster timelines and experiences that candidates and hiring managers value
• Employer Brand of the Year: Tells an employer story that candidates trust and employees are proud to share, turning authentic culture into compelling content that reaches every channel and touchpoint, scaled through AI
• Rookie of the Year: New to applied AI and already delivering results that most organizations take years to achieve, recognized for moving fast and making progress from day one
• Co-Developer of the Year: Shapes how Phenom’s AI capabilities evolve through hands-on collaboration, co-creating solutions and contributing to outcomes that benefit the broader customer community

Team Achievements

• Talent Acquisition Team of the Year: Sets a new bar for what great hiring looks like, using talent intelligence to drive smarter decisions, faster timelines and candidate experiences that hold up across roles, volume and market conditions
• Talent Management Team of the Year: Builds a talent strategy grounded in workforce intelligence that keeps people growing, moving and staying, with proven results in retention, internal mobility and long-term performance
• HRIT Team of the Year: Builds the connected, compliant infrastructure that makes great HR possible, integrating systems and reducing friction so teams can focus on outcomes instead of operations

Leadership and overall excellence

• Talent Executive of the Year: Leads with a people-first vision that bridges culture, talent strategy and business performance, proactively preparing their workforce and organization for a future built on Applied AI
• Best of the Best: Sets the gold standard in applied AI across workforce operations, delivering outstanding results in hiring, development and retention through an AI infrastructure designed for HR’s complexities

“Every organization is trying to figure out how to successfully operationalize AI,” said Christina Brown, VP & GM, Global Customer Value at Phenom. “In human resources, the companies that have answered that question did it with AI that understands their business, their roles and how work actually gets done. Six years into these awards, our customers’ insights remain one of the most valuable resources they can share with their peers and the industry as a whole.”

The submission deadline for Phenom customers worldwide is November 13, 2026. Winners will be honored at IAMPHENOM 2027, Phenom’s annual conference, April 20-22 in Philadelphia.

To learn more about the awards or submit a nomination, visit here.

View 2026 winners here.

About Phenom

Phenom is the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer. It understands unique industry and business needs for departments, teams, employees and candidates. This is AI that knows company DNA, powered by Engines that harmonize data and facilitate orchestration, Ontologies that guide every decision, X AI that creates hyper-personalized experiences, and Agents that work alongside teams with unprecedented speed and precision. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, this is responsible AI that is enterprise-secure, compliant, and always explainable.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (7 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (5 years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), 2026 and 2025 CODiE Awards, The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024 and 2025, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in Canada, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.