Sr. Engineering Technical Program Manager, VR (Remote)

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

You aren’t like everybody else. You aim a little higher. You reach a little further. Your experience is much broader than just a previous career or a few past jobs. You've been listening, learning, and paying attention to recent events which have demonstrated to you why building world-class technology for Public Safety is so important. You do more because it matters to you. And when it comes to looking for that next opportunity, you want to do work that matters to others.

At Axon, we build connected devices such as body cameras powered by an industry-leading digital evidence management platform. Our hardware, software, and training platforms bring security, efficiency, and transparency to law enforcement and are enabling us to truly change the world. The Axon business is growing rapidly and we are looking for a dedicated and proven Technical Program Manager to join our Virtual Reality team.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will leverage your leadership skills and expertise to drive Operational Excellence and scalability of the VR Engineering Department. You’ll collaborate with engineering leadership to define key operational metrics and then drive the definition, development, and deployment of processes and systems in support of these metrics. You’ll partner with art, design, and content teams to refine our workflows and delivery process. You’ll also partner with QA to ensure we’re capturing the right data regarding the reliability and robustness of our product and use this data to drive the continued improvement of our operations and product. In short, you will be an outsized force-multiplier allowing us to continually raise the bar regarding how we operate as a team, the quality of our product, and ultimately the measurable impact we will be able to make on society.

You will join an interdisciplinary team that is tackling the biggest challenges in public safety training head-on, including immersive VR-based empathy and de-escalation training to help officers engage with the communities they serve with greater awareness and safety. We seek to revolutionize how training is implemented within public safety and we seek to accomplish this while abiding to the following guiding principles:

1. Build VR Solutions for Social Good: With our mission to Protect Life, we develop VR solutions that benefit both law enforcement and the community, while addressing key issues in society.
2. Empower Agencies with Data: Deliver ongoing data and analysis that provide agencies with key insights that enable them to make decisions that result in building better, more efficient, and positive programs.
3. Develop an Active and Diverse Virtual Platform: Leverage the latest in VR technologies to create a robust portfolio of solutions and the highest-quality content, that enable users to be more effective in their roles and manage the challenges of 21st century public safety.

What You’ll Do
Location: Remote anywhere in the US (although we also have beautiful offices in Seattle, WA and Scottsdale, AZ).
Reports to: Director of VR Software Engineering
Direct Reports: None

• Drive process improvements within VR Engineering to build better faster so the teams are more effective and can deliver with higher velocity because of your impact.
• Understand the cross-discipline needs of the VR pillar as a whole and drive our operations to ensure we are deliberate and enabling partner as we collectively revolutionize law enforcement training.
• Ensure we’re capturing and acting on the right data regarding our operations and technical health.
• Identify opportunities for automation and own the conversion from manual to automated.
• Own your dependencies & invent and simplify as you face challenges pushing everyone towards the right outcome.
• Tracking all major risks/issues/roadmaps towards project execution and ensure clear communication of issues
• Leading by example with thoroughness, detail, and care for our teams and customers.
• Helping teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation as needed.