Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

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—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, constantly growing as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Seattle, WA | Boston, MA
Office Expectations: 4 day per week (Tuesday–Friday)
Reports to: VP Product
Level: L10
Experience: 10–12+ years

As a Principal Product Manager, you will define and drive the long‑term product strategy for wireless communications and location capabilities across Axon’s connected devices portfolio. You will translate mission and customer needs into clear requirements, develop a wireless connectivity roadmap, and align engineering and business stakeholders while making thoughtful trade‑offs across performance, reliability, cost, power, certification, manufacturability, and field quality.

• 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 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 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, 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…