Product Manager Ii, Hardware

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

Product Manager II, Hardware at Axon. Responsible for defining and delivering next-generation smart devices that integrate hardware, firmware, and connectivity. Collaborates with engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams to ensure product success. Requires experience in hardware product management, understanding customer needs, and translating them into product specifications. Focuses on delivering measurable outcomes for public safety solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with customers and internal teams to understand market needs and prioritize solutions that improve outcomes.
  2. Work closely with Hardware and Software Engineering, Operations, Quality, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support to define and deliver product improvements and new hardware products.
  3. Translate customer insights and technical requirements into clear product specifications and guidance for engineering.
  4. Collaborate with engineering and program management to balance scope, functionality, performance, cost, and time-to-market.
  5. Gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data from product performance, market research, and end users.

Skills

Required

  • 2-5 years of experience as a Product Manager working on hardware and integrated hardware/software devices.
  • Proven track record of delivering successful products that achieve business and customer outcomes.
  • Experience working with product requirements, design, user research, and validation testing.
  • Familiarity with quality, validation, and reliability processes for hardware products.
  • Creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex user interactions.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; able to adapt communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage incoming requests while delivering on roadmap commitments.
  • Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable working through ambiguity in fast-paced environments.

Nice to have

  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed (up to ~15%).

What the JD emphasized

  • hardware and integrated hardware/software devices
  • delivering successful products
  • product quality and reliability improvements