Principal Product Manager - Developer Platforms & AI Ecosystems

Axon•Washington, DC

4d•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 This position is a Principal Product Manager within Core DEMS, the team responsible for the backbone of our evidence ecosystem — including ingestion, search, organization, metadata, access control, and the platform layer that connects Evidence.com to the broader world of tools agencies depend on. Axon Evidence is becoming a platform. The next chapter of Evidence.com is architectural: evolving from a single product into a composable, open evidence backend where any authorized surface — Axon-built or third-party — can access, act on, and contribute to evidence data through a well-governed API and AI agent integration layer. This Principal PM will own the strategy and roadmap for how that platform is exposed to the world. That means the Partner API program and its next evolution, the developer portal and partner certification framework, and the emerging capability that makes Evidence.com natively accessible to AI agents operating inside agency workflows — enabling any compatible AI tool an agency deploys to retrieve evidence, check chain of custody, surface case connections, and take action, all through a permissioned, auditable interface. It also means defining the reverse: how Evidence.com ingests context from external systems — RMS, CAD, court management, community data — so the intelligence layer always has a complete operational picture. This is a category-defining role, not a feature-building one. The decisions made here set the architecture for how every external integration attaches to Evidence.com for the next decade, require executive alignment across product, security, legal, and go-to-market, and carry external influence that extends to ecosystem partners and AI platform vendors. The scope, strategic ambiguity, and organizational consequence of this role require Principal-level judgment and seniority.

Requirements

10+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion building developer-facing products — APIs, SDKs, developer portals, integration platforms, or two-sided ecosystems where third-party builders are a primary customer.
Strong technical fluency: able to read API specs, participate substantively in schema design discussions, and hold your own in architecture and security reviews — without needing to write production code.
Demonstrated ability to define strategy in environments where the standard or category is still forming; energized by the absence of a playbook rather than relying on benchmarking what already exists.
Proven track record of building trust and driving decisions across engineering, legal, security, and go-to-market stakeholders — particularly when those stakeholders are in genuine tension with each other.
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to operate as an external-facing representative of the platform with partners and ecosystem participants.
Strong knowledge of API security patterns, access control models, and compliance requirements in enterprise or regulated industries.
Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally when necessary (25%).

Responsibilities

Define and own the multi-year platform strategy for Evidence.com's developer ecosystem — how the evidence repository is exposed to third-party tools, AI agents, and agency-built integrations through APIs and an emerging AI agent protocol layer.
Build and maintain the roadmap for the Partner API program, including tiered access levels, versioning, usage-based pricing, and the evidentiary integrity standards (chain of custody, audit logging, PII handling) that any integration must meet.
Own the MCP server roadmap: define the set of discrete, permissioned, callable tools that expose Evidence.com's capabilities to AI agents, working with engineering on schema design and with legal and compliance to bound what is expressible.
Define the MCP client strategy: how Evidence.com ingests context from external systems — RMS, CAD, court management — at query time, without requiring pre-built integrations for every agency's technology stack.
Build and scale the developer experience: portal, sandbox, documentation, and the partner certification program that governs who can build on the platform and under what conditions.
Maintain deep relationships with high-leverage ecosystem partners — legal tech, forensic platforms, multi-agency collaboration tools — and use those relationships to validate and sharpen platform direction.
Define and track success metrics for the ecosystem layer: active integrations, API call volume, partner-attributed retention, and net-new use cases unlocked.
Represent the platform's strategy and roadmap externally to partners and internally to leadership with the authority and clarity of a company spokesperson for this part of the product.