Axon · 2 days ago
Principal Product Manager, Search
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$162K/yr - $259K/yr
10+ years expAxon is on a mission to Protect Life, addressing critical safety and justice issues through their innovative devices and cloud software. The Principal Product Manager will lead the design and evolution of the DEMS Search platform, focusing on optimizing how customers access and retrieve digital evidence across various modalities.
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Responsibilities
Define and evolve the Search Platform vision for DEMS — how evidence is indexed, queried, ranked, and retrieved across video, audio, image, and metadata sources
Build and maintain a multi-year roadmap for search platform capabilities by synthesizing feedback from customers, engineering, and internal product teams that depend on DEMS search APIs
Partner closely with engineering to design scalable indexing pipelines, optimize query performance, and balance search precision, recall, and latency targets
Collaborate with data and relevance teams to improve ranking logic, query understanding, and semantic retrieval while ensuring stability and backward compatibility across DEMS experiences
Operate with high autonomy, proactively clarifying priorities, requirements, and trade-offs across teams that depend on search as shared infrastructure
Define and track key performance metrics such as query latency, index freshness, retrieval accuracy, and system reliability, driving continuous improvement through instrumentation and experimentation
Qualification
Required
10+ years relevant software Product Management experience ideally in Search or a Search-related function
Direct collaboration with engineers to balance scope, time to market, and functionality, constantly making trade-offs using qualitative, quantitative, and absent data
Excellent problem-solving skills, well-structured written and verbal communication
Proven track record of delivering successful products that achieve key business outcomes
Strong written and verbal communication to effectively align multiple audiences across different teams, timezones, and levels of the organization
Strong knowledge of project management principles, seeing around corners
Ongoing assessment of program opportunities for improvements and skill improvement
Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally when necessary (10%)
Benefits
Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
Discretionary paid time off
Paid parental leave for all
Medical, Dental, Vision plans
Fitness Programs
Emotional & Mental Wellness support
Learning & Development programs
And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Company
Axon
Axon provides electronic control devices to law enforcement and corrections agencies.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2B2025-03-05Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2018-08-07Post Ipo Equity· $246M
2001-06-07IPO
Leadership Team
Jay Reitz
SVP Software Engineering
Anthony Baldoni
VP Strategic Initiatives
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