Principal Product Manager, Enterprise

Axon Axon · Enterprise · Office, WA · 2012 Sensors - DEMS

Seeking a Principal Product Manager to be a founding member of a new team developing 0 to 1 enterprise AI products for healthcare, retail, and logistics. The role requires a customer-obsessed, visionary leader with full-stack product management experience, comfortable working with engineers, legal, and C-suite buyers, and thriving in ambiguity to drive mission-driven outcomes.

What you'd actually do

  1. 0 to 1 Thinking: We are building new products to solve operational problems for businesses. Rapid Iteration, scrappy fast mover mindset, systematic invention and validation of key new concepts with real world commercial feedback will be crucial.
  2. Customer Obsession: Form a deep relationship with Enterprise customers want to adopt our technology in the early stages of maturity. Understand their constraints, big problems as well as they do and build a roadmap to solve those problems while growing Axon’s business.
  3. Leadership & Vision: Show leadership and vision across all business functions and create rational direction to all business groups. Influence across all functions within the company from engineering, manufacturing to sales and ensure the right things happen for our customers.
  4. Influence & Trust: Build trust with senior leaders through role modeling Axon’s leadership principles. Work with all levels of technical staff across software and hardware engineering earning their trust, holding them accountable and problem solving alongside them. Represent your domain with excellence and clarity at key company forums from our annual planning, business reviews, strategy reviews to our public facing conferences.
  5. Deliver Results: Own delivery of the the right roadmap items in their entirety from conception to launch to post-launch measurement and iteration. You will own the “whole” product which includes design, engineering, delivery and across all business functions. As the lead climber of any of our difficult initiatives, you will show ownership of all your dependencies, inventing and simplifying as you face challenges.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or other analytical field.
  • 10+ years professional experience within world class software product organizations in a multi-disciplinary role, with at least 2 specifically in a product management leadership role.
  • Founder experience paired with experience at mature technology companies
  • 6+ years of industry vertical experience with healthcare, retail or logistics.
  • 3+ years of experience working with large enterprise customers
  • Ability to travel 30-50% of the year to embed deeply with the customer, actively participate in trials/evaluations of our products and learn from them first hand.
  • Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, influencing and team building

What the JD emphasized

  • 0 to 1 Thinking
  • vision based AI
  • founder experience
  • industry vertical experience with healthcare, retail or logistics
  • working with large enterprise customers

Other signals

  • 0 to 1 products
  • vision based AI
  • customer obsession
  • deliver results