Principal Product Manager, Hardware

Axon Axon · Enterprise · WA · Remote · 2004 Sensors - Devices

Principal Product Manager, Hardware role at Axon, focusing on defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap for innovative hardware products. Responsibilities include partnering with engineering, design, manufacturing, and supply chain to deliver robust hardware solutions, ensuring high standards of performance and reliability, and collaborating with sales, marketing, and customer success for successful product launches and adoption. Requires 10+ years of product management experience with complex hardware/software products, a degree in engineering or related field, and proven success in launching and scaling hardware solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap from concept through launch, adoption, and iteration.
  2. Gather insights from customers, partners, and industry trends to inform product decisions and drive differentiation.
  3. Partner with engineering, design, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations to deliver robust, scalable hardware solutions.
  4. Ensure products meet high standards of performance, reliability, and usability, including firmware, connectivity, and ecosystem integration.
  5. Validate product concepts, refine requirements, and ensure solutions align with user needs and business objectives.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of product management experience
  • focus on complex hardware or hardware/software products
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • Proven success in building, launching, and scaling hardware solutions
  • Comfortable engaging with engineers on architecture, manufacturing trade-offs, and system-level decisions
  • From concept development to manufacturing, logistics, and field support
  • Exceptional empathy and ability to translate customer pain points into product strategy
  • Skilled at aligning stakeholders across levels
  • Demonstrated ability to drive adoption strategies and product growth
  • Willingness to travel (up to ~20%)

What the JD emphasized

  • complex hardware or hardware/software products
  • building, launching, and scaling hardware solutions
  • engaging with engineers on architecture, manufacturing trade-offs, and system-level decisions
  • From concept development to manufacturing, logistics, and field support
  • customer pain points