Senior Technical Program Manager

Axon•Scottsdale, AZ

4d•$131,250 - $210,000•Onsite

About The Position

Axon is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager for Axon Vision, a new business venture developing an AI-powered platform that turns live video feeds into real-time sensors for public safety, corrections, enterprise security and healthcare. Axon Vision operates like a startup within Axon, moving quickly and delivering products despite ambiguous requirements. The work spans the AI, DEMS/Enterprise and RTO pillars, each with distinct responsibilities, roadmaps and constraints. The TPM owns the end-to-end program and converts ambiguity into a coordinated plan that the pillars can execute. This includes the integrated roadmap, dependencies, risks, release gates and leadership communications. The role acts as a proxy for Vision engineering and product leaders and is expected to drive decisions, not merely track progress. It is an individual-contributor position reporting to Axon Vision engineering leadership. The position is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Seattle, Washington. The successful candidate will independently lead a high-visibility, cross-team program, build trust with engineers, product leaders and executives, and improve execution mechanisms across Axon Vision. The role calls for sound technical judgment, clear communication, accountability and composure as requirements, dates and priorities change.

Requirements

At least 8 years of software or hardware/software delivery experience, including at least 3–5 years as a Technical Program Manager or in equivalent senior TPM/EPM scope at a high-growth technology company.
Proven record of leading ambiguous, cross-team programs from inception through launch, with demonstrable dates, metrics and outcomes.
Strong technical credibility with cloud-based distributed systems, including ability to evaluate end-to-end designs, identify risks in APIs, scaling, latency or data flow, and discuss trade-offs with senior engineers.
Ability to create clarity with minimal direction in a startup-like environment where requirements may be contradictory or missing.
Experience coordinating multiple pillars or organizations with competing priorities, building consensus and holding peers accountable without formal authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting program status and strategy to senior leaders up to SVP level.
Working knowledge of agile and other delivery methods, with judgment to select an appropriate approach.
Engineering or science background or degree.
Demonstrated ownership of a complex, multi-team program with a clear definition of success.
Ability to anticipate dependencies, integration risks and release-gating needs before they become issues.
Strong judgment about when and to whom to escalate and what recommendation to provide.
Record of building mechanisms and templates adopted by other teams.
Ability to independently drive a high-visibility program to success while earning the trust of engineers, product leaders and executives.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience as a software engineer.
Experience with computer vision, machine learning or AI platforms, including model training, evaluation and deployment loops; willingness to learn if not experienced.
Experience with real-time or near-real-time systems, video streaming, edge devices or IoT devices.
Familiarity with public safety, law enforcement, corrections or other regulated environments, including security and privacy reviews.
Experience taking a new product from early access to general availability, including customer pilots and production-readiness sign-off.
Experience running programs spanning cloud services and physical devices.

Responsibilities

Own the integrated Axon Vision program plan across AI, DEMS/Enterprise and RTO, from early access through general availability and beyond.
Turn unclear or competing requirements into a unified work-back plan with named owners, dates and exit criteria for each gate.
Map and manage cross-pillar dependencies across cloud services, edge devices, model development and customer-facing applications.
Run program planning, risk reviews, release-readiness processes including shiproom, status reporting and escalation.
Clarify substantially unclear or contradictory requirements and seek the information needed to make commitments.
Anticipate, manage and mitigate risks; assign mitigation owners and escalate with clear recommendations when needed.
Drive prioritization across pillars and influence how pillars prioritize dependencies against their own backlogs.
Partner with engineering, product, science, QA, security, legal and hardware teams to address technical, compliance and policy needs.
Facilitate architecture and design reviews with staff engineers and lead trade-off discussions with technical leaders.
Define program metrics and measure success through customer outcomes and quality targets, not solely shipment.
Own senior-leader status reporting, including monthly business reviews, pillar rollups and executive updates.
Improve execution across Vision by contributing reusable planning and reporting mechanisms.
Mentor other TPMs and peers and participate in interviewing senior TPMs.
Proactively identify important problems and bring recommendations to leaders.
Hold teams and pillars accountable for committed deliverables, communicate complex technical and program information clearly, and remain structured when requirements or priorities change.