Senior Director, Manufacturing Operations
Arizona · Arizona - Pinnacle Peak · 12+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 12+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Arizona · Arizona - Pinnacle Peak
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Develop High-Performing Teams: Build, coach, and develop manufacturing leaders and teams capable of operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Manage Operational Risk: Identify and mitigate manufacturing risks related to capacity, equipment, labor, quality, supply continuity, safety, and business continuity.
Requirements
- 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 Senior Director level within a rapidly growing organization.
- Proven ability to scale manufacturing operations while improving safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.
- Strong understanding of Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, and operational excellence methodologies.
- Deep experience with production planning, capacity management, manufacturing engineering, automation, quality systems, and new product introduction.
- Demonstrated success developing and leading large, high-performing manufacturing teams and senior operational leaders.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate manufacturing data and KPIs into clear operational priorities and actions.
- Experience partnering with R&D and Engineering organizations to successfully transition products from development through production ramp and sustained manufacturing.
- Experience working within global supply chains and with contract manufacturers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience managing complex electromechanical or technology products strongly preferred.
- advanced degree preferred.
Benefits
- 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
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Snacks in our offices
Workplace
- Onsite at one of our facilities in Phoenix, Arizona
- Ability to travel up to 50%
Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Automation
- Production Planning
- Capacity Management
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Quality Systems
- New Product Introduction
