About the role
<div class="content-intro"><h4><strong>Join Axon and be a Force for Good.</strong></h4> <p>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.<br><br>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.</p></div><h4><strong>Your Impact </strong></h4> <p>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. <br><br>This role will operate in a five person team at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Finance, to optimize spending decisions that are aligned with our product and financial strategy. We’re not developing cost-controls and approvals; we empower our engineering teams with budgets and help them understand, forecast, and optimize their spending while maintaining their development velocity.<br><br>We’re looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager who’s already worked for several years with engineering teams in cloud-hosted distributed service environments. and has a proven track record of executing and coordinating complex software deliverables across multiple teams and job roles. In this role, you’ll be partnered with engineering and finance VPs. We’re looking for someone who knows a lot or can research what they don’t about how AWS and Azure charge for their services in order to guide teams during architectural design to pick the best alternative. Success will be left-shifting financial understanding into software design; failure would be launching a feature only to find it’s too expensive to run. Amazing success will be developing this function into a repeatable process that scales beyond your individual contributions.</p> <h4><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h4> <p><strong>Reports to:&nbsp;</strong>Director of Technical Program Management&nbsp;<br><strong>Direct Reports:&nbsp;</strong>None<br><strong>Location</strong>: This role is based out of our Seattle, WA office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and s