Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

Location: Scottsdale, AZ;
Seattle, WA;
Boston, MA.

Reports to: VP Product.

Level: L10.
Experience: 10-12+ years.

• 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…