Job Description

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. You’ll collaborate with product management and engineering teams to translate initial proposals into executable plans, ensuring that requirements are clear.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across product management, engineering, and design teams to build excellent, data-driven project plans and schedules
• Coach the team on agile, SDLC and other industry best practices to drive completion all major software deliverables
• Identify and manage dependencies to help prioritize and parallelize work, while reporting this information up and out to the broader organization
• Track 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 directly with multiple teams of engineers to understand, manage, and propose both technical tradeoffs and execution priorities, and accountability for managing tight execution timelines
• Help teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation as needed
• Communicate regularly and effectively with our teams in Seattle, Scottsdale, Vietnam and Finland

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or other related field
• 5+ years’ professional experience in leading and managing Cloud software delivery, including delivery of a large integrated data system, with at least 2 years specifically in a technical program management role
• High degree of competency and proven success with project management including: Agile methodology, identifying and managing risks, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communicating overall project status
• Can identify dependencies, mitigate risks and meet deliverables through global cross-functional teams
• Experience using JIRA
• Experience collaborating and working closely with remote and offshore team members
• Can create, read and understand detailed process and software architectural documentation
• Can not only deal with ambiguity but can effectively partner with others to reduce ambiguity and drive clarity
• Can accept critical feedback and effectively communicate it to your peers as well
• Can learn quickly and get passionate about the underserved and unique needs of public safety
• Resonate with Axon's Values and believe technology can be applied to tackle public safety's biggest challenges

Benefits

• No benefits