Senior Director, Manufacturing Operations
Axon Enterprise INC · Scottsdale, AZ
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Production
- Travel
- 50%
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 4 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level production role at Axon Enterprise INC (industrial) in Scottsdale, AZ.
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Automation
- Day to day
- about 50% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $116k–$158k.
Median of the low and high ends of 241 live postings that list pay, out of 787 production engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 12 other live production postings in Arizona.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 62%
- ✓ Lean 62%
- Tooling 38%
- ✓ Six Sigma 38%
- Root cause 31%
- ✓ Automation 31%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Full description from Axon Enterprise INCAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
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 manufac