Principal Product Manager, Connectivity

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. Location: Scottsdale, AZ; Seattle, WA; Boston, MA Office Expectations: 4 day per week (Tuesday- Friday) Reports to: VP Product Level: L10 Experience: 10–12+ years 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 As a Principal Product Manager, Connectivity , you will define and drive the long-term product strategy for wireless communications and location capabilities across Axon’s connected devices portfolio. You will work at the intersection of customer needs, product strategy, and deep technical execution to shape how Axon products leverage technologies including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, and adjacent wireless systems across body-worn, in-vehicle, and other embedded products. This is a highly cross-functional, principal-level role for a product leader who can translate mission and customer needs into a clear requirements, develop a wireless connectivity roadmap, drive alignment across engineering and business stakeholders, and make thoughtful tradeoffs across performance, reliability, cost, power, certification, manufacturability, and field quality. You will partner closely with electrical and RF engineering, hardware design, firmware, software, operations, compliance, and external partners to ensure Axon’s wireless capabilities are robust, scalable, and differentiated in real-world public safety environments. What You’ll Do Own product strategy and roadmap for wireless connectivity and location capabilities across Axon’s device portfolio Define product requirements and prioritization for wireless features, platform investments, and cross-device connectivity initiatives Translate customer, business, and operational needs into clear technical priorities for wireless performance, reliability, coexistence, certification, and field behavior Work with external vendors and partners where needed to support wireless platform strategy and execution Partner with RF, antenna, EE, ME, firmware, software, compliance, operations, supply chain, and program teams to drive end-to-end product decisions Partner with engineering on decisions involving modem platforms, antenna integration, carrier requirements, telemetry, validation strategy, and performance metrics Ensure product decisions reflect real-world field conditions, not only lab success, especially in mission-critical and operationally demanding environments Drive tradeoff decisions across latency, throughput, power, thermal limits, BOM cost, schedule, manufacturability, and quality Shape long-range strategy for technologies including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, and related embedded wireless systems Build alignment across senior stakeholders and influence roadmaps across multiple product lines and technical teams Monitor and drive customer adoption of connectivity features to ensure usage and customer value Define success metrics and use customer feedback, field data, and operational insights to improve