Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

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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.

• →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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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.

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