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Job Summary:
Axon is on a mission to Protect Life, focusing on critical safety and justice issues through their ecosystem of devices and cloud software. The Principal Product Manager, Connectivity will define and drive the long-term product strategy for wireless communications and location capabilities across Axon’s connected devices portfolio, ensuring robust and scalable wireless capabilities for public safety environments.
Responsibilities:
• 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
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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:
• 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
Company:
Axon provides electronic control devices to law enforcement and corrections agencies. Founded in 1993, the company is headquartered in Scottsdale, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.