Principal Product Designer

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon were on a mission to Protect Life. Were explorers pursuing societys most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products we work better together. We connect with candor and care seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced challenging and meaningful. Here youll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

About Axon

At Axon our mission is bold and simple: Protect Life. Our Real-Time Operations (RTO) products are transforming how public safety agencies enterprises and communities detect assess and respond to threats. Now were making Enterprise a dedicated strategic priority delivering GSOC solutions that enable real-time threat detection situational awareness and coordinated security response empowering security teams at scale.

With our Fusus platform we are uniquely positioned to bridge public and private security like no one else can. Across industries like retail healthcare transportation logistics and critical infrastructure we deliver tools that centralize operations integrate sensors and video and connect seamlessly with public safety.

Our goal is ambitious: to become the real-time platform for collaboration between communities and law enforcement connecting first responders and businesses with tools that enhance response improve safety and support Axons mission to Protect Life.

Your Impact

As the Principal Product Designer for Enterprise Real-Time Operations youll shape how private-sector security teams engage with Axons real-time platform to protect people property and operations. Youll design for a new and growing class of userscorporate security professionals analysts and operations leadersworking across complex distributed environments where speed clarity and collaboration are critical.

Your work will drive the customer feedback loop using research and prototyping to explore the problem space uncover user needs and define product direction. Youll partner closely with product engineering and business teams to ensure enterprise experiences are grounded in real-world workflows not assumptions. This is a high-impact strategic role where success means reshaping how private and public safety intersect.

What Youll Do

• Conduct field and remote research to deeply understand our users their environments and their missions.
• Build a continuous user feedback loopdriving generative research synthesizing insights and shaping product direction based on real-world user needs.
• Lead experience strategy for enterprise users of the Real-Time Operations platform including corporate security operations teams and analysts.
• Collaborate deeply with product engineering deployment and sales to ensure we deliver scalable intuitive and responsible experiences that reflect user goals and business impact.
• Translate complex workflows into elegant actionable and context-aware designs.
• Design across the lifecyclefrom early concepting and opportunity framing to high-fidelity prototypes and usability validation.
• Use systems thinking to model user journeys and connected workflows across multiple products personas and contexts.
• Serve as a design leader within RTO helping set the vision standards and strategy for the broader experience platform.
• Act as an advocate for user-centered design across cross-functional teams aligning stakeholders through insight storytelling and vision.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces and elevate the enterprise experience across Axons real-time portfolio.

What You Bring

• Experience: 12 years of product design experience including leading design for complex AI ML or enterprise-scale systems. Proven ability to own end-to-end user experiences across multiple products with a focus on driving long-term UX strategy grounded in real-world use.
• Strategic Vision: Demonstrated success in setting and executing a UX direction that aligns with business priorities by working back from user behavior constraints and needsnot assumptions.
• Customer-Driven Practice: Deep experience engaging directly with users to explore their context pressure points and workflowsusing design to test learn and uncover what doesnotwork as much as what might.
• Technical Fluency: Comfortable working with generative AI large language models (LLMs) and emerging front-end technologiesespecially where abstraction and complexity must be tamed through design.
• Clarity in Ambiguity: Skilled at navigating open problem spacesidentifying patterns framing opportunities and using design as a tool for sense-making and strategic clarity.
• Practice Impact: Brings strong design judgment shaped by years of hands-on product work. Not focused on trends or surface-level polish but on building experiences that solve hard real problems at scale.
• Leadership Through Insight: Able to clearly communicate design rationale lead cross-functional discovery and align diverse teams around user outcomes.
• Team Contributor: Invested in mentoring other designers sharing methods and helping raise the quality and ambition of design across the org.

Why Axon

• Shape the future of enterprise security where private security and public safety operate together in real time.
• Join a founder-led mission-driven company with a track record of innovation and market leadership.
• Work alongside passionate teams building life-saving technology at scale.

Work Location: This role is based out of our Seattle 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. We believe that connection fuels innovation and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork mentorship and shared success.

Benefits that Benefit You

• 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

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 meaning compensation is made up of base pay bonus and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 164250 in the lowest geographic market and USD 262800 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 meet every single requirement Thats ok. At Axon we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If youre excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification listed here we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

The above job description is not intended as nor should it be construed as exhaustive of all duties responsibilities skills efforts or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

Axons mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axons impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental health and safety regulations policies and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice advances equity values diversity and fosters inclusion. Were 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. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.