Principal Product Manager, Search

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At Axon, we’re on a mission to protect life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with an ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Our products work better together, and so do we—connecting with candor and care and seeking diverse perspectives from our customers, communities, and each other.

Life at Axon is fast‑paced, challenging, and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change, growing constantly while working hard for a mission that matters at a company that values you.

Our mission is to protect life. We’re building on our legacy—from the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions—to give public‑safety agencies state‑of‑the‑art tools. In the coming years, we’ll accelerate evidence collection, organization, and review, so officers spend less time sorting through media and more time building relationships and keeping communities safe.

This position is a Principal Product Manager within Core DEMS, the team responsible for the backbone of our evidence ecosystem—involving ingestion, search, organization, metadata, access control, reporting, and mobile applications.”

The PM will define the strategy and execution for DEMS Search, the core retrieval platform that powers how customers locate and access digital evidence across cases, sources, and modalities. You will partner with engineering to build and optimize indexing pipelines, query parsing, ranking logic, and retrieval performance—delivering a fast, precise, and intuitive search experience that scales with DEMS growth and enables multi‑modal search across text, image, video, and audio.

Reports to:

Vice President, Product Management, Core DEMS

Location:

This role is based out of our Seattle office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in‑person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.

Direct Reports:
None

• Define and evolve the Search Platform vision for DEMS—how evidence is indexed, queried, ranked, and retrieved across video, audio, image, and metadata sources.
• Build and maintain a multi‑year roadmap for search platform capabilities by synthesizing feedback from customers, engineering, and internal product teams that depend on DEMS search APIs.
• Partner closely with engineering to design scalable indexing pipelines, optimize query performance, and balance search precision, recall, and latency targets.
• Collaborate with data and relevance teams to improve ranking logic, query understanding, and semantic retrieval while ensuring stability and backward compatibility across DEMS experiences.
• Operate with high autonomy
  , proactively clarifying priorities, requirements, and trade‑offs across teams that depend on search as shared infrastructure.
• Define and track key performance metrics such as query latency, index freshness, retrieval accuracy, and system reliability, driving continuous improvement through instrumentation and experimentation.

• 10+ years relevant software product‑management experience, ideally in Search or a Search‑related function.
• Direct collaboration with engineers to balance scope, time to market, and functionality, constantly making trade‑offs using qualitative, quantitative, and absent data.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, well‑structured written and verbal communication.
• Proven track record of delivering successful products that achieve key business outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication to effectively align multiple audiences across different teams, time zones, and levels of the organization.
• Strong knowledge of project‑management principles, seeing around corners.
• Ongoing assessment of program opportunities for improvements and skill improvement.
• Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally when necessary (10 %).

• Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match.
• Discretionary paid time off.
• Paid parental leave for all.
• Medical, dental, vision plans.
• Fitness programs.
• Emotional & mental wellness support.
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