Chief Operating Officer jobs in United Arab Emirates

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem.

This is a General Interest application inviting individuals from every corner of the program management spectrum—from Business Operations to Technical Programs—to apply and contribute their skills. We welcome innovative thinkers who value collaboration, continuous learning, and making an impact in technology.
We are seeking diverse skill sets—including Business Operations, Program Management, Project Management, Technical Program Management, Program Analyst—to join our rapidly growing team in Abu Dhabi, UAE. In this role, you will solve challenges in application development, systems programming, networking, and autonomy, ensuring Anduril products seamlessly integrate to achieve critical mission outcomes. If you have a "Whatever It Takes" mindset—executing expediently, scalably, and pragmatically while making sound engineering decisions—this role is for you.

• Use your quantitative and qualitative skill set to lead strategic initiatives and projects as directed by the General Manager of the Division, ensuring they align with the division’s goals and priorities.
• Develop artifacts, presentations, and recurring reporting for key monthly program, C-Suite, and investment meetings.
• Identify areas for process improvement and drive change management efforts.
• Facilitate the decision-making process by analyzing data, coordinating information flow, and ensuring communication clarity.
• Project manage across many stakeholders. If you don’t like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you.
• Coordinate and prepare for executive leadership meetings, including setting agendas, tracking action items, and ensuring follow-through.

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field.
• Professional experience in aerospace, robotics, business operations, investment banking, or similar.
• You get energy from being a thought partner for others and it excites you to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences.
• Proven track record of being self-driven and relentlessly proactive. You don’t wait on others to solve problems, you proactively step into the gap to propose solutions yourself.
• You lean into acknowledging your weaknesses and take the idea of feedback and growth seriously.
• You’re both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility.
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25%.
• Must be eligible to obtain a UAE security clearance.

• Previous experience leading, managing, and executing urgent, complex technical programs/products, from ideation and early-stage design to technology development, system integration, testing, and deployment.
• Significant customer-facing experience leading high profile and high stakes programs, including strong interpersonal skills and executive gravitas.
• Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities.
• Experience working on mission critical Defense systems at a fast pace.
• Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision.

• US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
• UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
• AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.

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