Senior Technical Program Manager

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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

Senior Technical Program Manager, Axon Vision. A "startup" within Axon turning live video streams into intelligent, real-time sensors across public safety, corrections, enterprise security and healthcare.

Location: Scottsdale, AZ or Seattle, WA

About Axon Vision

Axon Vision is a new business venture within Axon with a simple mission: turn any live video feed into a real-time, AI-powered sensor. We operate like a startup inside a larger company. We move fast, adapt quickly and deliver high-impact products from ambiguous requirements.

Vision is a cross-pillar effort. The AI, DEMS/Enterprise and RTO pillars each own a critical part of the platform, the models and the customer experience, and each has its own roadmap and constraints.

Role summary

As the Axon Vision TPM, you turn that ambiguity into one coordinated plan that three pillars believe in and execute. You own the program from end to end: the integrated roadmap, the dependencies, the risks, the release gates and the story we tell leadership. You act as the proxy for Vision's engineering and product leaders, and you are trusted to drive decisions rather than just track them.

This is an individual contributor role, reporting into Axon Vision engineering leadership.

What you'll do

Scope of work

• Own the integrated Axon Vision program plan across the AI, DEMS/Enterprise and RTO pillars, from early access through general availability and beyond.
• Turn unclear or competing requirements into a single work-back plan with named owners, dates and exit criteria for each gate.
• Map and manage cross-pillar dependencies across cloud services, edge devices, model development and customer-facing applications.
• Run the mechanisms that keep the program honest: planning, risk reviews, release readiness (including shiproom), status reporting and escalation.

Responsibilities

• Clarify substantially unclear or contradictory requirements, and proactively seek the details needed to commit to a plan.
• Foresee, manage and mitigate risks early. Delegate mitigation ownership and escalate crisply, up to three levels, when it matters.
• Drive prioritization across pillars, including influencing how each pillar prioritizes its dependencies against its own backlog.
• Partner with engineering, product, science, QA, security, legal and hardware teams to make sure technical, compliance and policy needs are met for long-term success.
• Facilitate architecture and design reviews with staff engineers, and drive trade-off discussions with technical leaders at the right level of detail.
• Define program metrics and measure success by customer outcomes and quality targets, not just by shipping.
• Own program status reporting for senior leaders, including monthly business reviews, pillar rollups and executive updates.
• Raise the bar on execution across Vision by contributing reusable planning and reporting mechanisms.
• Mentor other TPMs and peers, and take part in interviewing senior TPMs.

Behavioral expectations

• Proactively find the next most important problem and bring a recommendation to your leaders, not just a question.
• Hold teams and pillars accountable to committed deliverables, with candor and without drama.
• Stay calm and structured when requirements, dates and priorities change.
• Communicate complex technical and program information clearly to engineers and to senior leaders.

What you bring

• 8+ years of software or hardware/software delivery experience, including at least 3-5 years as a Technical Program Manager (or equivalent senior TPM/EPM scope) at a high-growth technology company.
• A proven record of leading ambiguous, cross-team programs from inception through launch, with the dates, metrics and outcomes to show for it.
• Strong technical credibility with cloud-based distributed systems: you can evaluate an end-to-end design, spot risk in APIs, scaling, latency or data flow, and discuss trade-offs with senior engineers.
• Comfort working in a startup-like environment where requirements are contradictory or missing, and you create the clarity yourself with minimal direction.
• Experience coordinating multiple pillars or organizations with competing priorities, building consensus and holding peers accountable without formal authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to present program status and strategy to senior leaders up to the SVP level.
• A working knowledge of agile and other delivery methods, and the judgment to choose the right one for the situation.
• An engineering or science background or degree; hands-on experience as a software engineer is a plus.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ownership of a complex, multi-team program with a clear definition of success.
• Ability to look around corners: anticipates dependencies, integration risks and release gating needs before they become issues.
• Strong judgment on when to escalate, to whom and with what recommendation (for example, a 1:3:1).
• A record of building mechanisms and templates that other teams adopt.

This role requires someone who can independently drive a high-visibility program to success while earning the trust of engineers, product leaders and executives.

Nice to have

• Experience with computer vision, machine learning or AI platforms, including model training, evaluation and deployment loops. If you haven't, you're excited to learn.
• Experience with real-time or near real-time systems, video streaming, or edge and IoT devices.
• Familiarity with public safety, law enforcement, corrections or other regulated environments, including security and privacy reviews.
• Experience taking a new product from early access to general availability, including customer pilots and production-readiness sign-off.
• Experience running programs across a mix of cloud services and physical devices.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.

Base Pay Range

$131,250—$210,000 USD

Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

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