Senior Technical Program Manager - Cloud Ops Finance

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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 Technical Program Manager, you will leverage your leadership skills and expertise to partner with engineering and product management teams to drive projects from inception, through design, development, and deployment. This role will operate in a five person team at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Finance, to optimize spending decisions that are aligned with our product and financial strategy. We’re not developing cost-controls and approvals; we empower our engineering teams with budgets and help them understand, forecast, and optimize their spending while maintaining their development velocity. We’re looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager who’s already worked for several years with engineering teams in cloud-hosted distributed service environments. and has a proven track record of executing and coordinating complex software deliverables across multiple teams and job roles. In this role, you’ll be partnered with engineering and finance VPs. We’re looking for someone who knows a lot or can research what they don’t about how AWS and Azure charge for their services in order to guide teams during architectural design to pick the best alternative. Success will be left-shifting financial understanding into software design; failure would be launching a feature only to find it’s too expensive to run. Amazing success will be developing this function into a repeatable process that scales beyond your individual contributions. What You’ll Do Reports to: Director of Technical Program Management Direct Reports: None Location : This role is based out of our Seattle, WA office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success. • Lead execution across product management, engineering, and design teams to build excellent, data-driven project plans and schedules. • Drive process improvements in your space to build better faster so they teams are more effective and can deliver with higher velocity because of your impact. • Own your dependencies & invent and simplify as you face challenges pushing everyone towards the right outcome. • Tracking all major risks/issues/roadmaps and ensure clear communication of issues • Build trust with senior leaders by aligning your priorities with theirs, providing timely, accurate, and succinct status updates, and helping other teams when needed • Leading by example with thoroughness, detail, and care for our customers. • Work with all levels of technical staff across software and hardware engineering earning their trust, holding them accountable and problem solving alongside them. • You’ll help teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation as needed. • Working knowledge of the public cloud providers • Working knowledge of how networking works in AWS and Azure • 2+ years of experience in Cloud FinOps engineering analysis and Cloud cost optimizati

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