Compensation Overview

Your Impact

As a member of our Federal team, you will establish foundational technology and services that are driving positive change everyday. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to work directly with all of the critical organizations within the Federal Government to deliver highly visible results and make a direct impact bringing Axon technology to the Federal space.

Your primary area of ownership will be to collaborate with Federal customers, sales teams and customer success teams to understand detailed requirements and apply user-centered design processes and methodologies to establish product definition, design, and guide development of the product to unlock real value for our customers and ultimately increasing efficiency within the justice system. If you’re looking for ownership and autonomy while collaborating across project teams, this role is for you.

Learn more about Axon Evidence here: https://vimeo.com/427422866
Check out our future vision for Axon products here: https://vimeo.com/333871354
Check out our future vision for our records product here: https://vimeo.com/221924983
Read about our ethics board: https://www.axon.com/info/ai-ethics

What You’ll Do

Location: Remotely from United States OR onsite at our Seattle, WA office.
Reports to: Director of Design, DEMS
Direct Reports: none

• Partner closely with Product Management leadership on initial product definition and ongoing product evolution and execution. Shape strategy and direction for the highest priority product investments.
• Build alignment and articulate vision through strong storytelling and presentations skills.
• Lead product design for enterprise web and mobile applications within the federal market. You’ll own the full design process, from initial research and discovery through concepting, detailed designs, prototyping, testing and working with engineering on implementation.
• Turn complex interactions involving a diverse set of users, a complex physical environment, social interactions, regional differences, and an ecosystem of hardware devices and software applications, into simple experience solutions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and UX Researchers to initiate, execute, and extract insights using a variety of research methods: observational, interviews, participatory, usability testing, competitive analysis, etc.
• Collaborate with other designers across product teams to ensure great user experiences across all of our products.
• Think in terms of broad platform and systems strategy rather than siloed features.
• Contribute to defining global design patterns, general product design vision and process at Axon.
• Be an ambassador, mentor other designers and champion for the design culture at Axon.
• Present product and feature design proposals up to the executive level. 

What You Bring

• A masters degree or equivalent experience in HCI, Human Factors, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or other related field.
• 12+ years of product design experience with 6+ years of leading major product design initiatives in medium to high complexity.
• 4+ years of UX research experience applying various research methodologies and data analysis techniques.
• 2+ years of managing a product experience team and directing product initiatives.
• Strong conceptual design skills and proven ability in rapidly prototyping and designing to communicate ideas to others.
• Strong visual design skills.
• You enjoy collaborating on early product definition as much as you enjoy working with the larger product and engineering teams on implementation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly explain your ideas and decisions in a way that anyone can understand.
• Experience with designing for multiple form factors including (web, mobile) and modalities (touch, mouse, etc).
• Able to function both independently and in a collaborative team environment.
• Highly knowledgeable of the latest design tools and proficient at quickly learning new ones. We currently use Figma, but are always evaluating new tools.
• You have a great portfolio showing both design and research work available for review.
• A security clearance and experience working with government or military in the past is a plus.

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 127,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 245,000 in the highest geographic market. The on target earnings range for this role is between USD 255,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 490,000 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 www.axon.com/careers/benefits (http://www.axon.com/careers/benefits).

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