Air Defense Deputy PM - Lead & Deliver

Roboticsconnected; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Deputy Program Manager for Air Defense to lead internal program execution, schedule and cost control, logistics, and sustainment across a strategic regional deployment. You will partner with engineering, operations, and in-country teams to ensure successful deployment and continuous improvement of the Air Defense capabilities.

You will manage multi-team execution, build rigorous processes, and coordinate with external partners while traveling up to 50% to support

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management in defense or aerospace.
• Experience managing integrated master schedules, cost baselines, and earned value or similar program control disciplines.
• Strong cross-functional coordination skills — comfortable driving alignment across engineering, operations, logistics, finance, and contracts without direct authority.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Slack, MS365 and adept at AI integration to streamline project management, task tracking, and visualization.
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the year: 35% OCONUS (Middle East region); 15% CONUS travel.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day execution of Air Defense programs across all active workstreams.
• Run weekly business line coordination, contracting syncs, logistics syncs, training updates, and staffing reviews.
• Maintain the program's Jira project, WBS, epics, and tasks; provide schedule visibility via Jira Plan.
• Oversee cost baselines, burn rates, invoicing, and budget alignment with Finance.
• Coordinate with engineering leadership on configuration management, asset tracking, maintenance, and uptime reporting.
• Track scope alignment to contractual line items and funded CLINs; flag unauthorized work or creep.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Vendor/contract coordination

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Slack

MS365

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Deputy Program Manager for Air Defense to lead internal program execution, schedule and cost control, logistics, and sustainment across a strategic regional deployment. You will partner with engineering, operations, and in-country teams to ensure successful deployment and continuous improvement of the Air Defense capabilities.

You will manage multi-team execution, build rigorous processes, and coordinate with external partners while traveling up to 50% to support