Principal Product Manager, Connectivity
Axon · Washington, United States
- On site
- Washington, United States
About the role
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.
Location: Scottsdale, AZ; Seattle, WA; Boston, MA
Office Expectations: 4 day per week (Tuesday- Friday)
Reports to: VP Product
Level: L10
Experience: 10–12+ years
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
As a Principal Product Manager, Connectivity, you will define and drive the long-term product strategy for wireless communications and location capabilities across Axon’s connected devices portfolio. You will work at the intersection of customer needs, product strategy, and deep technical execution to shape how Axon products leverage technologies including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, and adjacent wireless systems across body-worn, in-vehicle, and other embedded products.
This is a highly cross-functional, principal-level role for a product leader who can translate mission and customer needs into a clear requirements, develop a wireless connectivity roadmap, drive alignment across engineering and business stakeholders, and make thoughtful tradeoffs across performance, reliability, cost, power, certification, manufacturability, and field quality. You will partner closely with electrical and RF engineering, hardware design, firmware, software, operations, compliance, and external partners to ensure Axon’s wireless capabilities are robust, scalable, and differentiated in real-world public safety environments.
What You’ll Do
- Own product strategy and roadmap for wireless connectivity and location capabilities across Axon’s device portfolio
- Define product requirements and prioritization for wireless features, platform investments, and cross-device connectivity initiatives
- Translate customer, business, and operational needs into clear technical priorities for wireless performance, reliability, coexistence, certification, and field behavior
- Work with external vendors and partners where needed to support wireless platform strategy and execution
- Partner with RF, antenna, EE, ME, firmware, software, compliance, operations, supply chain, and program teams to drive end-to-end product decisions
- Partner with engineering on decisions involving modem platforms, antenna integration, carrier requirements, telemetry, validation strategy, and performance metrics
- Ensure product decisions reflect real-world field conditions, not only lab success, especially in mission-critical and operationally demanding environments
- Drive tradeoff decisions across latency, throughput, power, thermal limits, BOM cost, schedule, manufacturability, and quality
- Shape long-range strategy for technologies including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, and related embedded wireless systems
- Build alignment across senior stakeholders and influence roadmaps across multiple product lines and technical teams
- Monitor and drive customer adoption of connectivity features to ensure usage and customer value
- Define success metrics and use customer feedback, field data, and operational insights to improve product quality and connectivity outcomes
- Act as a senior cross-functional leader who raises the bar on product rigor, execution quality, and long-term wireless platform thinking
What Success Looks Like
- Customer adoption of connectivity features continues to grow with high customer satisfaction
- Axon has a clear, coherent connectivity product strategy across multiple device categories
- Product, business development, and engineering teams are aligned on the highest-value wireless investments and tradeoffs
- Wireless platform decisions improve reliability, performance, and customer trust in real-world deployments
- Teams make earlier, better-informed decisions around certification, field quality, and launch readiness
- Connectivity roadmap choices scale across products instead of being addressed as one-off issues
- Customer pain points tied to wireless performance are better understood, prioritized, and reduced over time
- Senior leaders view this person as the product owner for wireless strategy across the portfolio
What You Bring
- 10–12+ years of product management experience with increasing principal-level ownership across connected devices, embedded systems, wireless platforms, or other technically complex hardware/software products, with demonstrated ability to set cross-portfolio strategy and drive senior cross-functional alignment
- Experience with wireless and embedded domains, including some combination of cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, modem integration, certification, connectivity performance, and telemetry
- Experience owning IoT products deployed at scale
- Strong product judgment and ability to prioritize across customer value, technical complexity, business impact, and execution risk
- Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, high-dependency environments with multiple senior stakeholders
- Proven ability to drive strategy and execution across multiple teams, functions, or product lines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, executive presence, and systems thinking
- Track record of delivering products, platforms, or major capabilities with measurable customer and business impact
- Experience using AI as a tool for requirements and prototyping
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with mission-critical, public safety, security, automotive, industrial, telematics, ruggedized, or other operationally demanding connected products
- Experience working closely with RF, antenna, modem, embedded, or wireless systems engineering teams
- Familiarity with challenges such as multi-radio coexistence, desense, carrier certification, field diagnostics, antenna tradeoffs, or fleet connectivity performance
- Advanced technical degree or MBA is a plus
Candidate Profile
Strong candidates for this role typically bring:
- Principal-level scope across multiple products, platforms, or technical domains
- Experience influencing senior engineering, product, and business leaders
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to set direction, not just manage execution
- Comfort operating in deeply technical environments without needing to be the engineering expert in the room
- A track record of improving quality, reliability, and customer outcomes in shipped products
- Credibility with cross-functional partners and a clear, structured decision-making style
Why This Role Matters
Wireless performance is foundational to the reliability and trustworthiness of Axon’s products. As our devices become more connected, more mobile, and more interdependent, we need a senior product leader who can ensure our wireless strategy is not only technically sound, but also aligned to customer outcomes, scalable across the portfolio, and resilient in the field. This role will directly shape how Axon delivers durable, mission-critical connectivity experiences when they matter most.
Benefits That Benefit You
- Competitive salary and equity
- 401(k) with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Career development and growth opportunities
- A mission-driven team focused on meaningful impact
Don’t Meet Every Requirement?
That’s okay. At Axon, we know great candidates may not match every qualification exactly. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make an impact, we encourage you to apply.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
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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.
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.
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