Manager, Software Technical Account Management
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
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.
You will lead a field team of Technical Account Managers and Mission Engineers the people agencies trust to put Axon technology to work. Together they keep products healthy help teams adopt new ways of working and build the workflows and automations that improve how public safety gets done.
Your team is Axons presence inside agencies: onsite regional and traveling. You coach mentor and develop that team so it stays technically sharp customer-confident and curious about what AI and the platform can unlock next. The people you develop should be equally comfortable solving problems with technology and sitting down with command staff to explain what changed and why it matters.
You will know you are succeeding when agencies see working outcomes your portfolio runs with consistent quality and your people are stronger because of how you lead. Axons mission is to Protect Life. This team is one of the most direct ways we live that mission with the agencies we serve.
Location: US Regionally based with Travel up to 40%
Reports to: Senior Director Customer Deployment & Technical Account Management
Direct Reports: Individual Contributors
Own portfolio outcomes
- Be accountable for deployment health adoption technical stabilization time-to-value escalation trends and solutions that hold up in day-to-day agency operations.
- Show up as a steady senior partner for command staff agency IT and Axon leaders when a situation needs leadership at the table.
- Work alongside Sales Product Engineering Support PSO and Customer Success. Bring the customers reality inside Axon and keep your team focused on what they can move.
- Share structured field insight with Product and Engineering: where work is getting stuck what is driving adoption and where the platform can do more.
Stay close to the technology
- Keep enough fluency across SaaS cloud hardware networking integrations and Axons platform including Evidence Records Fusus AI Era and related agency systems to coach well and help the team choose a sound path.
- Help people think through when to configure what already exists when a new build is worth it how to validate what users actually see and how to design for CJIS evidence integrity privacy and approved tooling.
- Treat AI as a practical tool the team uses to move faster with a shared habit of checking the work before it reaches an agency.
Coach mentor and develop the team
- Coach people through complex account technical and adoption moments. Help them think out loud choose a sound path and own the outcome with the agency.
- Mentor Technical Account Managers and Mission Engineers as they deepen technical range and executive presence going deep with agency IT and speaking clearly with command staff.
- Build individual development plans give regular feedback and create stretch opportunities so people can grow including partnering across TAM and Mission Engineer work over time.
- Foster technical curiosity and thoughtful AI experimentation. Help the team learn in public verify their work and share what they figure out with peers.
- Set clear expectations for customer ownership technical execution and onsite presence (typically three to four days a week in agency environments) then coach to that standard.
- Stay close enough to the work to develop people well: 1:1s ride-alongs operational reviews and quality conversations. Spot risk early then guide your people to own the solution.
- Build playbooks delivery rhythms and reusable patterns so good work travels and newer teammates can learn from it. Documentation and handoff are part of how this team takes care of agencies and of each other.
- Take part in building the team when we add talent bringing the same coaching lens to interviews and onboarding that you bring to everyday development.
Required
- Typically 7 years in customer-facing technical delivery (technical account management solutions implementation systems integration professional services or comparable) with 3 years leading individual contributors.
- A coaching and mentoring record you are proud of: people who grew shipped more or raised the standard because of how you developed them.
- Technical range across hardware software cloud networking and integrations. You are comfortable evaluating technical work asking good questions and talking with agency IT.
- Your own examples of solving problems with technology something you built automated integrated or designed that other people used.
- Confidence with command staff and senior stakeholders: you can simplify for an executive audience and go deep with a technical admin.
- Experience owning outcomes across a portfolio: multiple accounts mixed engagement models and a simple operating cadence (1:1s reviews dashboards escalation paths) that keeps a field team connected.
- Comfort when priorities shift. You create clarity keep the standard visible and help the team keep moving.
- Ability to obtain and maintain CJIS compliance and to model thoughtful security judgment.
Preferred
- Public safety law enforcement corrections defense or other mission-critical environments.
- Experience leading a mixed technical customer-facing team and helping people grow by partnering across specialties.
- Hands-on familiarity with AI automation analytics (SQL Power BI) or workflow platforms enough to coach experimentation and good verification habits.
- Familiarity with CAD RMS digital evidence real-time operations / Fusus or adjacent agency systems.
Technical Account Managers and Mission Engineers are both essential to how we support agencies. They bring complementary strengths from deployment adoption and technical health to workflow design automation and AI-enabled problem solving and they do their best work when they partner with each other and with you.
You will create the conditions for that partnership: shared standards room to grow and a culture where people learn from one another. Many of the strongest careers on this team are built by stretching across both kinds of work over time. Your job is to help people find that path while the agencies they support feel one coordinated team.
You get energy from developing people. You like sitting with someone after a hard agency moment and helping them see what they will do differently next time. You are as interested in careers as you are in technology and you are glad to walk into an agency alongside your team when it matters.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Leaders arrive from many paths. If you have coached a technical customer-facing team solved real problems with technology and care about developing people we would like to hear from 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.
Axon is a total compensation company meaning compensation is made up of base pay bonus and stock awards. 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 Pay Range
$100500 - $160800 USD
Dont 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
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About Company
The Axon Network connects people, devices, and apps to protect life in all regards. From our TASER smart weapons, to police body cameras, to our industry-leading cloud-based evidence management software, we are the world’s premier public safety company and are committed to delivering ... View more