Senior Director, Manufacturing Operations

Axon · Arizona, USA

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-29
  • Confirmed live on 30 September 2026

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Job description

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. 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, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Senior Director, Manufacturing Operations

Your Impact

Axon is on a mission to protect life and make the bullet obsolete. As we scale our next-generation products—including TASER devices, body cameras, sensors, and advanced drone technology—our manufacturing operations play a critical role in delivering innovative, high-quality products to our customers around the world.

As the Senior Director of Manufacturing Operations, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across Axon’s manufacturing organization, ensuring we have the people, processes, systems, and capabilities required to support our rapid growth. You will be responsible for driving operational excellence across safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and capacity while building a highly scalable manufacturing environment.

This is a highly visible leadership role requiring a hands-on, data-driven leader who can operate at both the strategic and factory-floor level. You will partner closely with Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, R&D, Finance, Facilities, and other teams to translate Axon’s growth and product roadmap into world-class manufacturing execution.

What You’ll Do

Location: Onsite at one of our facilities in Phoenix, Arizona (ability to travel up to 50%)
Reports to: SVP, Global Manufacturing Operations
Direct Reports: TBD

• Lead Manufacturing Operations: Provide strategic and operational leadership across manufacturing operations, ensuring consistent execution against safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives.

• Drive Operational Excellence: Establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes, operating rhythms, management systems, and performance standards that enable Axon to scale efficiently while maintaining exceptional quality.

• Optimize Production & Capacity: Partner with Supply Chain, Planning, Engineering, and business leaders to align manufacturing capacity, labor, equipment, and production plans with current and future demand.

• Build Scalable Manufacturing Systems: Develop standardized processes, controls, and operating practices across manufacturing operations to increase throughput, reduce variability, improve yields, and support continued growth.

• Lead Continuous Improvement: Champion Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, automation, and other continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate waste, improve cycle times, increase productivity, and reduce manufacturing costs.

• Own Manufacturing Performance: Establish and manage KPIs across safety, quality, delivery, cost, throughput, yield, labor efficiency, capacity utilization, and other critical operational metrics. Use data to identify trends, address root causes, and drive accountability.

• Strengthen Quality & Reliability: Partner closely with Quality and Engineering to ensure manufacturing processes consistently meet Axon’s product, regulatory, and customer requirements while proactively addressing quality and reliability risks.

• Drive New Product Introduction: Partner with R&D, Product, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure manufacturing readiness for new products, including design-for-manufacturability, tooling, process validation, capacity planning, and production ramp.

• Develop High-Performing Teams: Build, coach, and develop manufacturing leaders and teams capable of operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Establish clear accountability, succession plans, and leadership development across the organization.

• Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Facilities, Product, and other stakeholders to resolve operational challenges and ensure manufacturing priorities align with Axon’s broader business objectives.

• Manage Operational Risk: Identify and mitigate manufacturing risks related to capacity, equipment, labor, quality, supply continuity, safety, and business continuity.

• Support Manufacturing Integration: Partner on the operational integration of acquired manufacturing capabilities and contract manufacturers, driving alignment with Axon’s manufacturing standards, systems, quality expectations, and operating practices.

What You Bring

• 12+ years of progressive manufacturing and operations leadership experience, including significant experience leading complex, high-volume manufacturing organizations.

• Demonstrated experience leading manufacturing operations at the Director or Seni

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