Global Programs Lead, People Experience

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in California is seeking a Senior Manager, People Experience Programs to serve as the strategic and operational backbone of Anduril’s People Experience function. You will connect across a portfolio that includes regional engagement, enterprise-wide engagement surveys, and an alumni program, guiding initiatives across multiple geographies.

You will partner with the Head of People Experience to shape the function, identify gaps, propose new programming, and design scalable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in people programs, employee experience, engagement, organizational development, or program management within a People/HR function.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and evaluating employee experience or engagement programs end-to-end.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the program management and rollout of Anduril’s global engagement strategy — a regionalized model designed to understand and address site-level engagement challenges through targeted programming across seven sites and regions worldwide.
• Own the end-to-end program management of the company-wide engagement survey, including launch planning, results analysis, communication strategy, and driving accountability for action planning across business units.
• Help launch and operationalize the Anduril Alumni Program, managing the program’s day-to-day execution and implementation effort along various stakeholder groups.
• Partner with the Head of People Experience to shape and inform the function itself — identifying gaps in the employee experience, proposing new programming, building the case for investment in areas the function hasn’t yet reached, and designing the frameworks and systems that will define how People Experience operates at scale.
• Serve as the primary program operator across the People Experience portfolio: building project plans, managing timelines, running stakeholder communications, and keeping complex multi-workstream initiatives on track.
• Build and manage strategic stakeholder relationships across the People organization — including People Business Partners, People Leadership and Development, Onboarding Regional Leads, and the People Experience Operations Manager — navigating competing priorities, building buy-in, and maintaining trust across a complex partner network.
• Work closely with our People Experience Operations Manager to leverage site health data, engagement metrics, and quality-of-hire insights — translating data into strategic recommendations and program adjustments.
• Present program strategy, progress, and outcomes to senior leadership with clarity, confidence, and full executive presence — translating operational detail into a strategic narrative that shapes organizational direction.
• Drive systems-level change: identify where processes, structures, or ways of working need to shift to support the engagement strategy, and build the coalitions to make those changes stick.
• Create new frameworks and systems where none exist — this function is being built, and you will be expected to design program architecture, evaluation methodology, and feedback loops rather than adapting existing ones.

Skills

Program management

Employee experience

Engagement programs

Executive presence

Stakeholder relationships

Global scope

Data-driven decision making

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Anduril Industries in California is seeking a Senior Manager, People Experience Programs to serve as the strategic and operational backbone of Anduril’s People Experience function. You will connect across a portfolio that includes regional engagement, enterprise-wide engagement surveys, and an alumni program, guiding initiatives across multiple geographies.

You will partner with the Head of People Experience to shape the function, identify gaps, propose new programming, and design scalable