Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

Location:

Scottsdale, AZ;
Seattle, WA;
Boston, MA

Office Expectations: 4 days per week (Tuesday–Friday)

Reports to:

VP Product

Level: L10

Experience:

10–12+ years

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 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 clear requirements, develop a wireless connectivity roadmap, drive alignment across engineering and business stakeholders, and make thoughtful trade‑offs 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.

• 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 behaviour
• 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 just lab success, especially in mission‑critical and operationally demanding environments
• Drive trade‑off 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 trade‑offs
• 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, prioritised, 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, or wireless platforms, with demonstrated ability to set cross‑portfolio strategy and drive senior cross‑functional alignment
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