Senior Director, Product Management (Hardware), Axon 911

axon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Axon is seeking a senior Product Leader to own the strategy, definition, and execution of a new hardware-software platform. You will shape the vision, drive the roadmap, and partner with hardware, firmware, cloud, and GTM teams to move from prototype to large-scale deployment in public safety contexts.

You will lead a team of product managers, demanding credibility with engineering leaders and external partners, and you will communicate a clear, decisive product narrative to executives and field

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, with a track record of driving growth in technical product lines that combine hardware and software.
• Direct experience shipping both hardware and software products, and comfort owning the full device plus platform experience rather than one layer of it.
• Experience taking a new hardware product from 0 to 1, from early concept through launch and into market traction.
• 4+ years leading and building product teams, setting strategy that shipped and moved the business.
• Credibility with senior engineering leaders across embedded, firmware, and cloud domains, and the judgment to make trade-offs where field performance matters more than feature count.
• The ability to lead without formal authority, bringing executives, engineering, and external partners to one roadmap despite competing priorities.
• Strong written communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a hardware-software platform.
• Define clear product requirements from field use-cases and translate them into executable plans.
• Lead trade-off decisions across performance, reliability, battery life, security and cost.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, cloud, design engineering and GTM teams to land deployments that scale.
• Hire, coach, and lead a team of product managers and set measurable outcomes.
• Define and report key adoption and reliability metrics to executives honestly.

Skills

Product management

Hardware & software

0-to-1 hardware

Team leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Embedded/firmware

Written communication

Executive collaboration

Job description

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

Axon equips the world's public safety agencies with technology that captures truth, improves accountability, and protects lives. Our products run from body-worn cameras that de-escalate critical encounters to in-car systems, interview room solutions, mobile apps, and a growing set of signals and sensors. How officers stay connected in the field is central to all of it, and that is where the next opportunity sits.

You will lead a team of product managers to define a new product built from the ground up across hardware, software, and cloud, the first entry in a zero-to-one portfolio with the potential to become one of Axon's biggest pillars. In this role you help shape the product strategy, drive definition and prioritization with your team, and partner across the organization to move it forward. Your work helps determine whether agencies adopt the product and officers trust it in the field. The role reports to the CEO of Axon 911.

State of the business

The opportunity is a 0-to-1 business. You will build the product from scratch, and the ceiling is large enough to make it one of Axon's biggest pillars.

The target category is large, underserved, and central to how public safety agencies operate in the field.

The new device generation moves agencies onto a single connected platform, similar to the move from a feature phone to a smartphone.

Success in the early phase means winning the first agency deployments and proving field reliability, then expanding across [target segments: e.g., large municipal agencies, state police, federal.]

The role

You lead the product across strategy, definition, and execution alongside your team. You help shape the vision and the roadmap, work through the trade-offs that engineering and design build against, and keep the program moving from first prototype toward large-scale agency deployment. You partner with engineering, design, hardware, supply chain, and go-to-market leaders, and you help carry the product narrative to executives, agency decision-makers, and the field.

Responsibilities include:

• Product strategy: Own the multi-year vision, target segments, and the sequence of bets that get the product from early deployments to large-scale adoption. Own the full product lifecycle from definition through go-to-market and iteration.
• Definition and execution: Turn how officers work and communicate in the field into clear product requirements. Own the roadmap and the trade-offs across performance, reliability, battery life, security, and cost.
• Customer obsession: Build direct relationships with agency leaders and officers. Start from the customer problem and ground every major decision in customer evidence and field data.
• Cross-functional leadership: Partner with hardware, firmware, cloud, and design engineering leaders to turn device and system constraints into product decisions, and with go-to-market teams to land deployments that hold up in the field.
• Team building: Hire, coach, and lead a team of product managers. Set the bar for written thinking, customer discovery, and measurable outcomes.
• Accountability: Define the metrics that show whether the product is working (adoption, field reliability, officer trust) and report against them honestly, including when the data says a bet was wrong.

What you bring

• 10+ years in product management, with a track record of driving growth in technical product lines that combine hardware and software, ideally deployed in the field at scale.
• Direct experience shipping both hardware and software products, and comfort owning the full device plus platform experience rather than one layer of it.
• Experience taking a new hardware product from 0 to 1, from early concept through launch and into market traction.
• 4+ years leading and building product teams, setting strategy that shipped and moved the business.
• Credibility with senior engineering leaders across embedded, firmware, and cloud domains, and the judgment to make trade-offs where field performance matters more than feature count.
• The ability to lead without formal authority, bringing executives, engineering, and external partners to one roadmap despite competing priorities.
• Strong written communication. You can turn an ambiguous, high-stakes problem into a clear document that drives a decision.
• Experience with connected devices, communications products, or mission-critical systems is a strong plus.
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