Executive Chief of Staff to the CEO

Anduril-1; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks an exceptional operator to lead day-to-day execution across the CEO’s highest-priority work. This senior leadership role demands end-to-end ownership, turning ambiguous priorities into concrete outcomes while coordinating across Anduril’s senior leaders, government stakeholders, and external partners.

You will build and lead a high-performing team, own executive travel and engagements, and drive initiatives that require cross-organizational collaboration with limited

Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility in roles requiring exceptional ownership, judgment, and execution.
• Demonstrated success taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from a loosely defined starting point through successful execution with limited oversight.
• Exceptional executive judgment and a strong instinct for quality. You know what good looks like, can quickly separate signal from noise, and can raise the quality of work before it reaches senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar business problems, identify the core issue, and develop a practical path forward.
• Strong executive presence and credibility with senior leaders. You can challenge, influence, and drive executives while maintaining trust and strong working relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority, particularly across complex cross-functional organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into concise executive-level materials.
• Direct people-management experience, including hiring, developing, and holding high-performing teams accountable.
• A track record of building systems and operating mechanisms that allow a function to scale rather than relying on heroic individual effort.
• Extremely high ownership and follow-through. When you take responsibility for something, others trust that it will be driven through completion.
• Ability and willingness to operate at a very high tempo, travel frequently when required, and adapt quickly as priorities change.
• Ability to maintain discretion and sound judgment while working with highly sensitive company, government, personnel, and strategic information.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• This role will require reference checks.

Responsibilities

• Run the operating rhythm. Own the cadences, processes, forward planning, prioritization, and information flows that keep the team ahead of what is coming rather than reacting to it.
• Build and lead a high-performing team. Set a high bar, establish clear ownership/priorities/timelines, develop people, and build an organization capable of absorbing increasing scope under the Chief of Staff.
• Turn CEO priorities into executable work. Take loosely defined priorities or emerging issues, determine what needs to happen, identify the right owners and decision-makers, establish a plan, and drive the work to a conclusion.
• Lead high-priority special initiatives. Take ownership of ambiguous problems or opportunities that matter to the CEO but do not sit cleanly within one organization. Determine the objective, build the plan, assemble stakeholders, drive decisions, and carry the effort through execution.
• Drive senior stakeholders. Coordinate leaders across the company without relying on positional authority, resolve gaps between teams, surface disagreements early, and maintain momentum on issues that span organizational boundaries.
• Own executive preparation. Ensure important meetings, reviews, and engagements have clear objectives, strong materials, the right participants, surfaced decisions and risks, and sufficient preparation time for senior leadership.
• Own significant CEO travel and external engagements end-to-end. Through the team, coordinate objectives, stakeholders, scheduling, preparation, materials, logistics, and follow-through for major domestic and international trips.
• Run executive reviews, offsites, and special cadences. Establish timelines and outputs, coordinate contributors, maintain quality and version control, identify unresolved issues, capture decisions, and ensure actions are closed.
• Serve as a trusted filter and quality bar. Exercise judgment over what requires senior leadership attention, what can be resolved elsewhere, and whether work reaching the CEO is ready for decision or discussion.
• Maintain organizational follow-through. Ensure commitments made in CEO and senior leadership forums translate into clear owners, actions, and outcomes rather than disappearing after the meeting.
• Connect dots across the company. Recognize when an issue surfaced in one part of the business has implications elsewhere and proactively bring together the people and information required to address it.
• Continuously improve how the team operates. Identify friction, unnecessary work, unclear ownership, and recurring failure modes, then redesign the system rather than repeatedly solving the same problem.

Skills

Executive judgment

Ownership culture

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Ambiguity management

Travel willingness

Security clearance-eligible

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks an exceptional operator to lead day-to-day execution across the CEO’s highest-priority work. This senior leadership role demands end-to-end ownership, turning ambiguous priorities into concrete outcomes while coordinating across Anduril’s senior leaders, government stakeholders, and external partners.

You will build and lead a high-performing team, own executive travel and engagements, and drive initiatives that require cross-organizational collaboration with limited