Principal Product Manager, Search

Overview

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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, connecting with candor and care and seeking diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. You’ll take ownership and drive real change while growing in a mission that matters and at a company where you matter. Our mission is to protect life, solving big problems and taking on public safety challenges with state-of-the-art devices, software, and services to support communities.

Your impact:
This is a Principal Product Manager within Core DEMS, the team responsible for the backbone of our evidence ecosystem—including ingestion, search, organization, metadata and access control, reporting, and mobile applications. You will lead the design and evolution of DEMS Search, the core retrieval platform that powers how customers locate and access digital evidence across cases, sources, and modalities.

• 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.

• 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%)

Location:

Seattle office with a hybrid schedule. In-person collaboration expected on site Tue–Fri; remote work allowed on Mondays unless an approved workplace accommodation.

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• 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
• Snacks in offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, with base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 162,000 and USD 237,600, depending on factors such as level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, geographic market, and business needs. Our benefits offer options to support you physically, financially and emotionally. For more details, visit

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement. We aim for diverse teams and welcome candidates who can contribute to our mission to Protect Life.

The above job description is not exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, or working conditions and may change. Some roles may require eligibility to work in a firearms environment. We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates. For accommodation requests, please email a Axon is an Equal Opportunity Employer promoting justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

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