Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

Axon•Washington, DC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. 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. We connect with candor and care, seeking out 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 grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. Your Impact 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 technologies including 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 a clear requirements, develop a wireless connectivity roadmap, drive alignment across engineering and business stakeholders, and make thoughtful tradeoffs 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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 with challenges such as multi-radio coexistence, desense, carrier certification, field diagnostics, antenna tradeoffs, or fleet connectivity performance
Advanced technical degree or MBA is a plus

Responsibilities

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