Senior Technical Program Manager II

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

In Connected Devices, we are solving some of the hardest IoT challenges today. We design, deploy and manage smart camera systems (both in-car and body-cameras) used by thousands of public safety agencies around the globe. For example, our Fleet3 product enables law enforcement officers collect video evidence and leverages Axon’s powerful artificial intelligence capabilities to incorporate live services and the ability to alert officers of vehicles of interests via smart license plate reading technology. Find out more about these exciting technology applications here: How Axon is using AI responsibly to transform public safety - Axon.com

As a Technical Program Manager, you will leverage your leadership skills and expertise to partner with engineering and product management teams to drive projects from inception, through design, development, and deployment. You’ll collaborate with product management and engineering teams to translate initial proposals into executable plans, ensuring that requirements are clear. Once plans are developed, you ensure plans stay on track by leveraging mechanisms that manage scope, risks and ensure healthy execution heartbeat to ensure initiatives to develop new products and features are completed on-time, on-budget, delight our customers and make a measurable social impact.

This role will balance driving enhancement initiatives to the existing camera products in the field, as well as plan and deliver new product introductions (NPI) for these camera product lines.

The ideal candidate is an experienced technical program manager who has a proven track record of executing and coordinating complex software deliverables across multiple teams and job roles. Sitting at the middle of product, design, and engineering, you should love to build relationships across a wide variety of personalities, while driving the execution of the product. You leverage your technical expertise and detail-oriented mindset to help the team identify, prioritize, and troubleshoot blockers and manage cross team dependencies.

What You’ll Do

Reports to: Director of Technical Program Management 
Direct Reports: none

At Axon, a TPM is a skilled individual contributor that works with engineering and PM teams to translate initial PRFAQ/proposals into an executable plan, ensuring that requirements are clear. Once a plan is developed, the TPM ensures execution to that plan stays on track through mechanisms that manage scope, risks and ensure healthy execution heartbeat. In a nutshell, a TPM is like an insurance policy on a program, ensuring that it is completed on-time, on-budget, and meeting quality expectations. The day to day work includes the following:

• Coordinate across product management, engineering, and design teams to build excellent, data-driven project plans and schedules
• Coach the team on agile, SDLC and other industry best practices to drive completion all major software deliverables
• Identify and manage dependencies to help prioritize and parallelize work, while reporting this information up and out to the broader organization.
• Track major risks/issues/roadmaps and ensure clear communication of issues
• Build trust with senior leaders by aligning your priorities with theirs, providing timely, accurate, and succinct status updates, and helping other teams when needed
• Leading by example with thoroughness, detail, and care for our customers. 

• Work directly with multiple teams of engineers to understand, manage, and propose both technical tradeoffs and execution priorities, and accountability for managing tight execution timelines.
• You’ll help teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation
• Communicating regularly and effectively with our teams in Seattle, Scottsdale, Vietnam and Finland.

What You Bring

• 5+ years’ work experience as a software project or program manager with specific experience delivering software for embedded devices.
• High degree of competency and proven success with project