Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager

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 Senior Principal Technical Program Manager on the Real-Time Operations team, you will lead some of Axon's most complex, ambiguous and high-risk programs across R&D and the broader company. You will own organization-level and company-level initiatives where success requires alignment across multiple pillars, executive stakeholders and, in many cases, multiple TPMs. You will be the person senior leadership turns to when the work has no obvious owner, the solution is not yet known and the consequences of getting it wrong are significant. You will identify problems and opportunities before requirements exist, define the strategy, translate that strategy into an executable plan and drive alignment around the people, resources and commitments required to deliver it. You will operate as a strategic advisor to senior product and engineering leadership, including the RTO SVP, CTO and their directs. You will tell leaders what they need to hear, surface risks before they become issues and help shape both short-term execution and long-term technical direction. At this level, your scope extends beyond delivering an individual program. You will lead programs with multiple TPMs, establish mechanisms that improve execution across organizations and raise the standard for technical program management across Axon. The Real-Time Operations team builds, deploys and maintains products for emergency responders, specifically built around the Axon Fusus platform. Because every second counts for our customers, any production outage, functional regression or performance degradation that lasts even a few minutes can have a real impact. The ideal candidate combines deep technical judgment, strong executive presence and the ability to drive accountability across organizations without relying on direct authority. Location: Seattle Reports to: Sr. Director of Technical Program Management Direct reports : None What You'll Do • Lead Axon's most complex cross-organization technical programs, including initiatives that span multiple R&D pillars and business functions. • Own organization-level or company-level outcomes from early strategy and problem definition through execution, launch and post-production. • Lead programs involving multiple TPMs and establish clear ownership, operating mechanisms and accountability across the program. • Identify high-impact problems before requirements exist and translate them into strategy, technical direction and executable plans. • Drive alignment across engineering, product, business, legal, information security, policy and other company organizations. • Own program plans, schedules, resourcing strategies and change management across multiple organizations. • Drive company-level accountability for commitments, dependencies and critical milestones. • Foresee systemic risks and organizational dependencies and establish mechanisms that prevent them from becoming execution failures. • Define success metrics for large-scale initiatives and ensure leaders use those metrics to make roadmap and investment decisions. • Own or guide end-to-end technical requirements across complex systems and multiple engineering organizations. • Bring senior eng