Principal Technical Program Management

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Own highly complex technical programs across teams and pillars, from strategy and early definition through launch and post-production.
Translate ambiguous business and technical problems into clear requirements, plans, milestones, dependencies and measurable outcomes.
Own program plans, schedules, resourcing and change management while holding teams accountable for committed deliverables.
Foresee, manage and mitigate risks across teams and pillars.
Track cross-team dependencies, identify opportunities to parallelize work, delegate risk ownership and create clear escalation paths.
Define program success metrics, measure progress against them and communicate results to leadership.
Own end-to-end technical requirements and bring engineering teams together on system design and architecture.
Help teams evaluate decisions involving data stores, caching, technical stacks, system boundaries and where business logic should live.
Lead technical discussions focused on scalability, reliability, availability and long-term maintainability.
Drive technical trade-off discussions with leaders using sound technical judgment and sufficient technical depth.
Partner with business, legal, information security and policy stakeholders early so programs are positioned for long-term success.
Own status and strategy communication for your programs and present at MBRs and senior review forums.
Advise product and engineering directors and VPs on program risks, sequencing, dependencies and execution strategy.
Build and improve the architecture, process and program documentation required to keep complex programs moving.
Define and improve TPM artifacts, tools and mechanisms that can be reused across teams.
Identify opportunities to use AI to accelerate execution, decision-making and program management practices.
Mentor TPMs and educate teams across R&D on strong program management practices.
Interview and calibrate candidates for senior TPM, engineering and leadership roles.
Work effectively with teams across multiple time zones.
Within 90 days: You own your portfolio or initiative and have developed a clear written assessment of its current state, risks, dependencies and opportunities that leadership can act on.
Within 6 months: Cross-pillar commitments are clear and holding. Leaders use your reporting to make decisions and adjust priorities when needed.
Within 12 months: You have delivered measurable results across multiple teams or pillars, and the mechanisms you created are being reused by other programs or TPMs.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science or a related field. Master's or PhD optional.
10+ years of experience managing complex software or hardware/software delivery.
2 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.
A record of leading large, cross-team or cross-pillar technical programs with significant ambiguity and executive visibility.
Deep technical judgment and the ability to evaluate end-to-end designs, identify risks in technical decisions and engage credibly with senior engineers.
Strong command of program management practices, including multiple delivery methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, and the judgment to determine which approach fits the problem.
Proven ability to manage risks, dependencies, milestones and status reporting across complex programs.
Experience advising product and engineering leaders and presenting program strategy to senior leadership.
Proven ability to work through ambiguity, define the problem and establish direction before complete requirements exist.
Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, including mentoring, coaching and building consensus among stakeholders who may disagree.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working across multiple time zones and distributed teams.
Preference for experience with enterprise SaaS or other mission-critical software.
A connection to Axon's values and our mission to tackle public safety's biggest challenges.
Own It. You take responsibility for outcomes no one else is positioned to own.
Join Forces. You build consensus among leaders and teams who may not initially agree.
Be Obsessed. You stay anchored to the customer outcome.
Aim Far. You identify problems before they have requirements and help shape the direction.
Expect Candor. You challenge senior people respectfully and plainly.
Mechanism Builder. You build tools and processes that continue working when you are not in the room.