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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.\nLife 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.\nYour Impact\nAs a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager on the Real-Time Operations team, you will lead some of Axon's most complex, ambiguous and high-risk programs across R&D and the broader company.\nYou will own organization-level and company-level initiatives where success requires alignment across multiple pillars, executive stakeholders and, in many cases, multiple TPMs. You will be the person senior leadership turns to when the work has no obvious owner, the solution is not yet known and the consequences of getting it wrong are significant.\nYou will identify problems and opportunities before requirements exist, define the strategy, translate that strategy into an executable plan and drive alignment around the people, resources and commitments required to deliver it.\nYou will operate as a strategic advisor to senior product and engineering leadership, including the RTO SVP, CTO and their directs. You will tell leaders what they need to hear, surface risks before they become issues and help shape both short-term execution and long-term technical direction.\nAt this level, your scope extends beyond delivering an individual program. You will lead programs with multiple TPMs, establish mechanisms that improve execution across organizations and raise the standard for technical program management across Axon.\nThe Real-Time Operations team builds, deploys and maintains products for emergency responders, specifically built around the Axon Fusus platform. Because every second counts for our customers, any production outage, functional regression or performance degradation that lasts even a few minutes can have a real impact.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep technical judgment, strong executive presence and the ability to drive accountability across organizations without relying on direct authority.\nLocation: Seattle\nReports to: Sr. Director of Technical Program Management\nDirect reports: None\nWhat You'll Do\nLead Axon's most complex cross-organization technical programs, including initiatives that span multiple R&D pillars and business functions.\nOwn organization-level or company-level outcomes from early strategy and problem definition through execution, launch and post-production.\nLead programs involving multiple TPMs and establish clear ownership, operating mechanisms and accountability across the program.\nIdentify high-impact problems before requirements exist and translate them into strategy, technical direction and executable plans.\nDrive alignment across engineering, product, business, legal, information security, policy and other company organizations.\nOwn program plans, schedules, resourcing strategies and change management across multiple organizations.\nDrive company-level accountability for commitments, dependencies and critical milestones.\nForesee systemic risks and organizational dependencies and establish mechanisms that prevent them from becoming execution failures.\nDefine success metrics for large-scale initiatives and ensure leaders use those metrics to make roadmap and investment decisions.\nOwn or guide end-to-end technical requirements across complex systems and multiple engineering organizations.\nBring senior engineering leaders together on architecture, system boundaries and difficult technical trade-offs.\nChallenge technical assumptions and ensure decisions involving data stores, caching, system architecture, technology stacks and business logic are made with long-term consequences in mind.\nLead strategic technical discussions around scalability, reliability, availability and operational resilience.\nAdvise Directors, VPs, SVPs and executive leaders on portfolio strategy, execution risk, prioritization and where TPM capacity should be applied.\nWrite and present strategy documents that shape the short- and long-term direction of your space.\nPresent strategy, execution health and technical trade-offs to the RTO SVP, company CTO and their directs.\nLead programs that move into novel or previously unexplored areas where solutions are unknown, risk is high and failure could have significant customer impact.\nLead initiatives that extend beyond R&D and require alignment across broader company organizations.\nDefine and standardize TPM artifacts, tools, operating mechanisms and role expectations across the organization.\nCreate mechanisms that improve decision-making, accountability and execution even when you are not directly involved.\nRaise the bar for how Axon applies AI to accelerate execution, program management and organizational effectiveness.\nMentor Principal TPMs and other senior technical leaders.\nInterview and calibrate candidates through Principal TPM, Staff Engineer and Director levels.\nEducate leaders and teams across R&D on program management practice, technical execution and organizational mechanisms.\nWork effectively across multiple teams, organizations and time zones.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nWithin 90 days: You have taken ownership of a company-critical initiative or portfolio, developed a clear assessment of its actual state and surfaced risks, dependencies or structural issues that leadership is actively addressing.\nWithin 6 months: You have established strong cross-organization operating mechanisms, commitments are holding and senior leaders are using your strategy and reporting to make roadmap, resourcing and prioritization decisions.\nWithin 12 months: You have delivered meaningful results across organizations, created mechanisms that have scaled beyond your immediate programs and materially raised the effectiveness of technical program management across your space.\n\nWhat You Bring\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science or a related field. Master's or PhD optional.\n12 to 15+ years of experience managing complex software or hardware/software delivery.\n2 to 3 years of experience as a technical individual contributor, engineer or equivalent hands-on technical role, or comparable technical depth developed through your career.\nA proven record of leading highly complex, high-risk programs across multiple organizations with significant executive visibility.\nExperience leading programs with multiple TPMs, engineering organizations and cross-functional stakeholders.\nExperience driving alignment and accountability at the organization or company level without relying on direct reporting authority.\nDeep technical judgment and the ability to engage credibly with Principal and Distinguished Engineers, engineering VPs and executive leadership.\nAbility to evaluate end-to-end architecture, identify the long-term cost of poor technical decisions and distinguish meaningful technical risk from inflated or incomplete information.\nMastery of program management practice and the ability to select, adapt and teach multiple delivery methodologies based on the needs of the organization.\nA demonstrated record of creating mechanisms that improve execution across multiple teams or organizations.\nExperience advising senior executives and shaping strategy with SVP- and CTO-level stakeholders.\nExperience writing strategy documents that influence short- and long-term technical or organizational direction.\nProven ability to define the problem and establish direction in areas where requirements, ownership or solutions do not yet exist.\nExperience leading novel initiatives where the technical path is uncertain and the consequences of failure are significant.\nStrong executive communication skills and the ability to challenge senior leaders respectfully and directly.\nStrong influencing, mentoring and coaching skills.\nExperience scaling processes across multiple organizations and time zones.\nPreference for experience with enterprise SaaS or other mission-critical software.\nA connection to Axon's values and our mission to tackle public safety's biggest challenges.\n\nHow You Operate\nOwn It. You take responsibility for outcomes that span teams, pillars and organizations.\nJoin Forces. You create alignment among senior leaders with competing priorities.\nBe Obsessed. You stay anchored to customer and mission impact, particularly when execution becomes difficult.\nAim Far. You identify problems before they are fully understood and help define where the organization should go.\nExpect Candor. You challenge senior and executive leaders respectfully, clearly and with strong supporting judgment.\nMechanism Builder. You create systems, tools and processes that improve execution at scale and continue working without your constant involvement.\nAxon 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.\nBase Pay Range\n$207,000—$331,200 USD\nDon’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.\nStudies 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.\nImportant Notes\nThe above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.\nSome roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.\nWe collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at  or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.\nAxon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent - regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances - and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. 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