Senior Product Manager II, VR

Company: Axon
Location: Seattle
Posted on: October 31, 2024

Job Description:

Our mission is to protect life
We're out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing Public Safety customers with the state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect our communities. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We'll put video at the heart of the police record so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.It's a big mission, but it's one we'll pursue relentlessly every single day.
Your Impact
You aren't like everybody else. You aim a little higher. You reach a little further. Your experience is much broader than just a previous career or a few past jobs. You've been listening, learning, and paying attention to recent events which have demonstrated to you why building world-class technology for Public Safety is so important. You do more because it matters to you. And when it comes to looking for that next opportunity, you want to do work that matters to others.At Axon, we build connected devices such as body cameras powered by an industry-leading digital evidence management platform. Our hardware, software, and training platforms bring security, efficiency, and transparency to law enforcement and are enabling us to truly change the world. The Axon business is growing rapidly and we are looking for a dedicated and proven Senior Product Manager to join our Virtual Reality team.As a Product Manager on the Axon VR Simulator team, you will work with VR and traditional technologies to conceive, test, and build the platform that supports all of Axon's VR content experiences. The platform features that you create, including avatars, NPCs, animations, and narrative systems, will define the future of virtual reality use in Public Safety applications. We see leveraging the technology for training applications to be the first stop on our journey of possibilities.You will join an interdisciplinary team that is tackling the biggest challenges in public safety training head-on, including immersive VR-based decision making, empathy and de-escalation training to help officers engage with the communities they serve with greater skill, awareness, and safety. We seek to revolutionize how training is implemented within public safety and we seek to accomplish this while abiding to the following guiding principles:

• Build VR Solutions for Social Good: With our mission to Protect Life, we develop VR solutions that benefit both law enforcement and the community, while addressing key issues in society.
  
• Empower Agencies with Data: Deliver ongoing data and analysis that provide agencies with key insights that enable them to make decisions that result in building better, more efficient, and positive programs.
  
• Develop an Active and Diverse Virtual Platform: Leverage the latest in VR technologies to create a robust portfolio of solutions and the highest-quality content, that enable users to be more effective in their roles and manage the challenges of 21st century public safety.
  
  What you'll do
  Location: Seattle, WA or Scottsdale, AZ or US-RemoteReports to:Director of Product, VRDirect Reports:None
  

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• Own virtual reality software platform feature areas including planning, requirements, and execution.
  
• Communicate directly with our internal stakeholders, sales teams, and customers at law enforcement agencies to understand their needs and workflows related to your feature areas.
  
• Collect and synthesize stakeholder requirements and data, and rationalize against our company, product, and content strategy into actionable plans for the platform features.
  
• Make data-driven decisions when possible and fall back on well-supported intuition when data is not available.
  
• Direct and guide the software product, pipeline, and feature vision and communicate with the cross-functional team, evolving it based on interactions with customers and internal stakeholders.
  
• Work with our tech art and engineering teams to balance scope, functionality, performance, and time-to-market.
  
• Operate with autonomy while proactively reducing ambiguity for your team and your cross-functional peers.
  
• Set performance metrics for the most important functions of the products, and work with the team to measure and achieve them.
  
  What you bring
  
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  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, game design, engineering or related field of study.
    
  • 8+ years of Product Management experience, ideally shipping platform features and experiences for training, gaming, avatars, or virtual/augmented reality.
    
  • Experience building and shipping complex enterprise platform features.
    
  • Ability to successfully lead and communicate with a cross-functional team.
    
  • Ability to generate feature strategy and roadmap based on interaction with customer and insights into the market.
    
  • Great instincts on how to make the right tradeoffs, despite the lack of qualitative or quantitative data.
    
  • Confidence and comfort working with high degree of autonomy, in a fast-paced environment.
    
  • Periodic domestic travel is required, 10-15 days a quarter.
    
    Benefits that benefit you
    
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    • Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
      
    • Discretionary paid time off
      
    • Robust parental leave policy
      
    • An award-winning office/working environment
      
    • Ride along with real police officers in real life situations, see them use technology, get inspired
      
    • And more...
      
      The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 148,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 222,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit .
      We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent - regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances - and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email .
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