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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.
Your Impact
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 Axon's 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. Axon's mission is to Protect Life. This team is one of the most direct ways we live that mission with the agencies we serve.
What You'll Do
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 customer's 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 Axon's 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.
What You Bring
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.
Who You'll Partner With
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'll Thrive Here If
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.
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.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's 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 you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't 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
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at axongreenhousesupport@axon.com or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email recruitingops@axon.com. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
Phishing alert: Axon will never ask you to pay for any part of the hiring process, including training, equipment, or background checks. We do not make job offers via text message, WhatsApp, or instant messaging platforms without a formal interview process. All legitimate job openings are listed on our official careers page at https://www.axon.com/careers. If you receive a suspicious offer or outreach from an email address that is not @axon.com, or if you are asked for sensitive personal information (bank details, Social Security Number) prematurely, please ignore the message and report it to recruitingops@axon.com.
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.
Your Impact
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 Axon's 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. Axon's mission is to Protect Life. This team is one of the most direct ways we live that mission with the agencies we serve.
What You'll Do
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 customer's 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 Axon's 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.
What You Bring
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.
Who You'll Partner With
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'll Thrive Here If
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.
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.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's 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 you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't 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
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at axongreenhousesupport@axon.com or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email recruitingops@axon.com. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
Phishing alert: Axon will never ask you to pay for any part of the hiring process, including training, equipment, or background checks. We do not make job offers via text message, WhatsApp, or instant messaging platforms without a formal interview process. All legitimate job openings are listed on our official careers page at https://www.axon.com/careers. If you receive a suspicious offer or outreach from an email address that is not @axon.com, or if you are asked for sensitive personal information (bank details, Social Security Number) prematurely, please ignore the message and report it to recruitingops@axon.com.
H-1B Aerospace & Defense Job Roles in Illinois
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Search Aerospace & Defense Jobs in IllinoisAerospace & Defense H-1B Sponsorship Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
Which aerospace and defense companies sponsor H-1B visas in Illinois?
Several large aerospace and defense employers in Illinois have consistent H-1B sponsorship histories, including Boeing, which maintains significant operations in the Chicago area, as well as Lockheed Martin, L3Harris Technologies, and Northrop Grumman. United Airlines and aviation services firms around O'Hare also file H-1B petitions regularly for engineering and technical roles. Sponsorship patterns vary by year and role, so checking DOL LCA disclosure data gives the most current picture.
Which cities in Illinois have the most aerospace and defense H-1B sponsorship jobs?
The Chicago metropolitan area, including suburbs like Naperville, Schaumburg, and Rolling Meadows, concentrates the majority of Illinois aerospace and defense H-1B roles. Rockford has a notable manufacturing and aerospace cluster, with companies supporting both commercial aviation and defense contracts. East Alton and Decatur also have defense-related manufacturing presence. Most corporate and engineering headquarters positions, however, are concentrated in the greater Chicago region.
What types of aerospace and defense roles typically qualify for H-1B sponsorship in Illinois?
Roles that routinely qualify include aerospace engineers, systems engineers, avionics engineers, software engineers working on defense platforms, structural analysts, propulsion engineers, and mechanical engineers with specializations tied to a specific degree field. The H-1B requires the position to be a specialty occupation, meaning a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field is the normal minimum requirement. General technician or production roles without a degree requirement typically do not qualify.
How do I find aerospace and defense H-1B sponsorship jobs in Illinois?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter by visa type, industry, and state to surface aerospace and defense roles in Illinois where employers have indicated H-1B sponsorship. Because many aerospace employers file H-1B petitions consistently, cross-referencing active job listings with DOL LCA disclosure data helps confirm sponsorship history before applying. Migrate Mate aggregates this in one place, saving significant research time for international candidates.
Are there state-specific or industry-specific considerations for H-1B sponsorship in aerospace and defense in Illinois?
Illinois does not impose state-level visa requirements beyond federal H-1B rules, but aerospace and defense roles often carry federal security clearance requirements. H-1B holders can be sponsored for security clearances, though the process is complex and not all employers initiate it for visa holders. Illinois-based defense contractors working on sensitive programs may restrict certain roles to U.S. citizens or permanent residents, which is worth confirming with each employer before applying.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B aerospace & defense jobs in Illinois?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.