Job description
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.
Our mission is to protect life
We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company’s inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing Public Safety customers with the state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect our communities. In the next few years, we’re going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of the police record so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won’t stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.
It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day.
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 steadfast and proven Senior Product Manager to join our Virtual Reality team.
As a Senior PM II, you will lead the strategic vision and execution for our VR solution, focusing on cloud infrastructure, web applications, and identity management. You will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative, scalable, and secure product experiences for our customers, working closely with engineering, design, and business teams. You will guide the development of cutting-edge features that enable seamless user experiences and robust security measures. You will be tasked with defining product roadmaps, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the successful launch of impactful features that elevate Axon’s VR offering in the market. The ideal candidate will possess a robust technical background, a passion for immersive technologies, and the ability to balance user needs with business objectives in a rapidly evolving space.
You will join an interdisciplinary team that is tackling the biggest challenges in public safety training head-on, including immersive VR-based decision making, empathy and de-escalation training to help officers engage with the communities they serve with greater skill, 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:
- 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.
- 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 proficient, and positive programs.
- 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: Work from home as much as you want, live nearby any of our awesome US R&D Hubs (Seattle, Scottsdale, Atlanta, or Boston) so you can easily collab in-person when it’s helpful and be an active part of our vibrant Axon culture. Reports to: Principal Product Manager, Axon VR and Academy
Direct Reports: None
- Own virtual reality software platform feature areas including planning, requirements, and execution.
- Communicate directly with our internal stakeholders, sales teams, and customers at law enforcement agencies to understand their needs and workflows related to your feature areas.
- Collect and synthesize stakeholder requirements and data, and rationalize against our company, product, and content strategy into actionable plans for the platform features.
- Make data-driven decisions when possible and fall back on well-supported intuition when data is not available.
- Direct and guide the software product, pipeline, and feature vision and communicate with the cross-functional team, evolving it based on interactions with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Work with our tech art and engineering teams to balance scope, functionality, performance, and time-to-market.
- Operate with autonomy while proactively reducing ambiguity for your team and your cross-functional peers.
- Set performance metrics for the most important functions of the products, and work with the team to measure and achieve them.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, game design, engineering or related field of study.
- 8+ years of Product Management experience, ideally on cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building and shipping complex enterprise platform features.
- Ability to successfully lead and communicate with a cross-functional team.
- Ability to generate feature strategy and roadmap based on interaction with customer and insights into the market.
- Great instincts on how to make the right tradeoffs, despite the lack of qualitative or quantitative data.
- Confidence and comfort working with high degree of autonomy, in a dynamic environment.
Benefits that benefit you
- Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Robust parental leave policy
- An award-winning office/working environment
- Ride along with real police officers in real life situations, see them use technology, get inspired
- And more…
The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 149,025 in the lowest geographic market and USD 238,440 in the highest geographic market. 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 www.axon.com/careers/benefits.
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
The 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.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
Axon’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.
We 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected]. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
