Sr. Technical Program Manager - FinOps

About the role

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. 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution across product management, engineering, and design teams to build excellent, data-driven project plans and schedules.
• Drive process improvements in your space to build better faster so teams are more effective and can deliver with higher velocity because of your impact.
• Own your dependencies & invent and simplify as you face challenges pushing everyone towards the right outcome.
• Tracking all 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 with all levels of technical staff across software and hardware engineering earning their trust, holding them accountable and problem solving alongside them.
• Help teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation as needed.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of the public cloud providers.
• Working knowledge of how networking works in AWS and Azure.
• 2+ years of experience in Cloud FinOps engineering analysis and Cloud cost optimization.
• 2+ years in cloud operations role managing Cloud environments, budgets, forecasts and implementing financial controls.
• Strong principles of financial analysis.
• Analytical skills and experience with cost optimization.
• Excellent SQL querying, Excel, and charting/graphing skills.
• Ability to gain trust querying and analyzing data accurately.
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations.
• Understanding of cloud cost management tools.
• Some experience with containerized environments and Terraform.
• Some experience with automation/development languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Experience working on multi-million-dollar environments.
• Ability to influence engineering teams to optimize spending.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or other related field. 7+ years professional experience in leading and managing system/software delivery, with at least 2 specifically in a technical program management role.

• High degree of competency and proven success with project management including: Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodology, identifying and managing risks, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communicating overall project status.
• Evidence in work history of owning and driving large, ambiguous technical software programs.
• You are able to learn quickly and cannot only deal with ambiguity, but can effectively partner with others to reduce ambiguity.
• You resonate with Axon's Values and our mission that technology can be applied to tackle public safety's biggest challenges.
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, influencing and team building.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Experienced with enterprise SaaS or other mission critical software product is a plus.
• Experienced with cloud IaaS and PaaS offering such as AWS and Azure is a plus.

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.

Pay

Base Pay Range: $131,250 USD - $210,000 USD.

Schedule

This role is based out of our Seattle, WA office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.