Defense Program Manager — Secret Clearance & Equity

Anduril Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits package

Health insurance

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a highly motivated Program Manager to own a portion of a growing government reference architecture portfolio. You will be the single point of ownership, partnering with engineering, contracts, and government stakeholders to keep technical, cost, and schedule baselines aligned and commitments met.

This role requires architectural fluency and execution discipline, with the credibility to represent programs directly to the customer.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in program management on government or defense programs
• Active US Secret clearance
• Experience with systems engineering and/or software engineering
• Experience with government reference architectures
• Contract deliverable ownership: hands-on experience planning, driving, and delivering CDRLs - managing submission schedules, internal authoring and review cycles, and compliance with data item descriptions
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder relationships across engineering, contracts, finance, and security in dynamic, high-pressure environments
• Proven track record as the primary interface to a government program office, running program reviews and technical interchange meetings and representing program status directly to the customer
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, and resources to achieve program objectives, including tracking burn against funding and producing defensible EAC/ETC forecasts
• Highly organized: able to manage concurrent programs and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Program Ownership
• Program Financial Management
• Architecture Fluency
• CDRL & Contract Deliverable Management
• Customer Relationship Ownership
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Risk, Issue & Change Management

Skills

Program management

Contract deliverable ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget & schedule management

Customer relationship management

Risk, issue & change management

Architecture fluency

Government/Defense domains

Communication with government offices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Systems Engineering

Tools

CDRL management

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a highly motivated Program Manager to own a portion of a growing government reference architecture portfolio. You will be the single point of ownership, partnering with engineering, contracts, and government stakeholders to keep technical, cost, and schedule baselines aligned and commitments met.

This role requires architectural fluency and execution discipline, with the credibility to represent programs directly to the customer.