Senior Technical Program Manager II

Axon • Seattle, WA

129d • $154,305 - $246,888

About The Position

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 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. You'll also have an outsized force-multiplier impact working across all pillars (business units) at Axon.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or other related field.
• 10+ years professional experience in leading and managing system/software delivery, with at least 7+ specifically in a technical program management role.
• 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.
• Evidence in work history of owning and driving large, ambiguous technical software programs.
• Ability to learn quickly and effectively partner with others to reduce ambiguity.
• Resonate with Axon's Values and mission that technology can be applied to tackle public safety's biggest challenges.
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, influencing and team building.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experienced with enterprise SaaS or other mission critical software product.
• Experienced with cloud IaaS and PaaS offering such as AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution across product management, engineering, and design teams to build excellent, data-driven project plans and schedules.
• Drive process improvements in your space to build better faster so the teams are more effective and can deliver with higher velocity because of your impact.
• Own your dependencies & invent and simplify as you face challenges pushing everyone towards the right outcome.
• 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 with all levels of technical staff across software and hardware engineering earning their trust, holding them accountable and problem solving alongside them.
• Help teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation as needed.
• Communicate regularly and effectively with our teams in Seattle, Scottsdale, Vietnam and Finland.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees