Director, Product Finance (Devices)

Axon•Scottsdale, AZ

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Axon is seeking a Director, Product Finance to collaborate across the finance organization and with business leaders to improve processes, inform strategic decisions, and enhance forecasting and analysis capabilities. The role supports a fast-paced business team working to solve important customer problems and requires agility, initiative, creative thinking, technical experience, and strong problem-solving skills. The position supports product and operational decision-making through financial analysis, product roadmap prioritization, new product business cases, cost and budget reviews, and R&D/product forecasting. It also contributes to the company-wide Strategic Portfolio Planning Process, partnering cross-functionally on investment business cases and supporting holistic analysis of product segment market and P&L performance. This role is based at one of Axon’s U.S. hubs in NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Sterling, Seattle, or Scottsdale, and follows a hybrid schedule. Team members are expected to work onsite Tuesday through Friday and may work remotely on Mondays, except where an approved workplace accommodation applies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Financial Accounting.
At least 7 years of experience in financial modeling, forecasting, and business analytics in a dynamic environment, supporting financial and operational decision-makers.
Proven ability to own projects and drive them to completion cross-functionally.
Experience driving process improvements focused on quality, timeliness, and efficiency.
Ability to work independently while maintaining quality and meeting deadlines.
Experience with data analysis and dynamic scenario modeling, including researching and validating model inputs and assumptions and aligning them with operational models and strategic goals.
Technology, software, or SaaS industry experience.
Manufacturing experience.
Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills for frequent interaction with financial and non-financial business leaders.
Strong attention to detail, planning, and organization skills, with the ability to multitask, prioritize, and deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Responsibilities

Provide business and financial analysis, metrics, process creation and improvement, and operating model alignment to operational and financial decision-makers.
Support product roadmap prioritization based on profit contribution and engineering resource constraints, in partnership with engineering and product leads.
Model new product design iterations and develop business cases for products and features based on product-market fit and expected cost reduction.
Lead regular cost reduction, headcount, and budget reviews to ensure alignment with the company plan and product strategy.
Support corporate forecasting for R&D and product spending and present results to R&D leaders.
Participate in corporate FP&A meetings, including executive corporate forecast reviews and budget-versus-actual reviews.
Support the company-wide Strategic Portfolio Planning Process by helping create investment business cases for new products and strategic initiatives.
Collaborate cross-functionally on investment business cases and provide full P&L exposure.
Support product teams’ holistic analysis of market and P&L performance for key product segments, contributing data, KPIs, and analysis.