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. As a Sr. Technical Program Manager I, you will make a direct impact towards our missions of protecting life, capturing truth and never missing a critical moment. As a Technical Program Manager, you will leverage your leadership skills and expertise to partner with engineering and product management teams to drive projects from inception, through design, development, and deployment. You’ll collaborate with product management and engineering teams to translate initial proposals into executable plans, ensuring that requirements are clear. Once plans are developed, you ensure plans stay on track by leveraging mechanisms that manage scope, risks and ensure healthy execution heartbeat to ensure initiatives to develop new products and features are completed on-time, on-budget, delight our customers and make a measurable social impact. The team you will work on is developing a new 0 to 1 product for Axon and your role will be the technical launch manager for all software-focused deliverables in coordination with hardware timelines.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for launching a new 0 to 1 product for Axon
- Coordinate across product management, engineering, and design teams to build excellent, data-driven project plans and schedules
- Coach the team on agile and other industry best practices to drive completion of all major software deliverables
- Identify and manage dependencies to help prioritize and parallelize work, while reporting this information up and out to the broader organization
- Track all major risks/issues/roadmaps and ensure clear communication of issues
- Build trust with senior leaders by aligning your priorities with theirs, providing timely, accurate, and succinct status updates, and helping other teams when needed
- Lead by example with thoroughness, detail, and care for our customers
- Work directly with multiple teams of engineers to understand, manage, and propose both technical tradeoffs and execution priorities, and accountability for managing tight execution timelines
- Help teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation as needed
- Communicate regularly and effectively with our teams in the US and Vietnam
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or other related field
- 4-6+ years professional experience in leading and managing system/software delivery, with at least 2 specifically in a technical program management role
- Preference towards enterprise SaaS or other mission critical software product
- High degree of competency and proven success with project management including: Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodology, identifying and managing risks, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communicating overall project status
- Experience collaborating and working closely with remote and offshore team members
- Ability to learn quickly and effectively partner with others to reduce ambiguity
- Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, influencing and team building
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- Snacks in our offices
