Head of Business Line Operations, Air Dominance & Strike

Roboticsconnected; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Head of Business Line Operations to own the operational engine for a major business line, aligning product development, engineering, and production with growth goals.

You will lead governance, staffing, facilities, and strategic initiatives, partnering with division leadership to scale the organization, implement hiring standards, and guide M&A efforts as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience scaling hardware production at high-growth companies.
• Built flexible operational infrastructure and know when to rebuild.
• Deep financial acumen including unit economics, manufacturing finance, and P&L management.
• Operational rigor with discipline, metrics-driven management.
• Proven ability to evolve organizations and coach senior leaders.
• Ability to switch between strategic and hands-on work.

Responsibilities

• Own all aspects of business line operations and infrastructure to support growth.
• Serve as GM’s chief strategist to balance resources and execution risk against growth plans.
• Translate growth signals into demand across staffing, real estate, test ranges, and production infrastructure.
• Govern the business line from reviews to annual planning and onboarding.
• Collaborate with division leadership to evolve structure and hiring standards.
• Lead special projects and stand up new functions; guide M&A efforts as needed.

Skills

Systems thinker

Ownership mindset

Financial acumen

Operational infrastructure

Leadership coaching

Strategic/tactical agility

US Top Secret clearance eligibility

Cross-functional collaboration

Growth-stage experience

Job description

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 mission of Anduril’s Air Dominance and Strike Division is to fundamentally reshape the way future peer to peer conflicts are fought by developing next generation collaborative combat aircraft, advanced effects, and the software that powers these autonomous weapons. As the Head of Business Line Operations, you’ll be responsible for the full operational scope of the one of our business lines from business operations to production and sustainment infrastructure, partnering closely with the General Manager as well as Functional leaders. You will own the operational engine that enables our business to scale through hypergrowth and into its next chapter: IPO readiness, production at volume, fielded system sustainment, and the organizational evolution required to support it all.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Own all aspects of business line business operations and infrastructure, ensuring business development, engineering, and production teams have what they need when they need it to execute
• Serve as the business line General Manager’s chief strategist to balance resource and execution risk against our massive growth plans, regularly monitoring financials to help guide us toward our profitability targets
• Translate growth signals into demand across all operational infrastructure including staffing, real estate, test ranges, classified infrastructure, and production and collaborate with cross-functional partners across Anduril to deliver
• Own the business line’s governance structure from business reviews to annual planning and employee onboarding to all hands, developing and evolving information pathways as the organization scales
• Collaborate closely with division leadership to evolve the organizational structure and define and implement strong hiring, onboarding, and execution standards for key functions so we maintain a culture of “doing things differently”
• Execute on special projects, evolve internal processes, spearhead the stand up of new functions, and lead M&A efforts as needed

Here’s who you are:

• You’re a systems thinker who loves solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way
• You’re both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility
• You've built flexible operational infrastructure at a high-growth company and know when to tear down and rebuild
• You have experience with hardware production scaling through fielding, including rigorous metrics monitoring, problem identification, and resolution
• You have deep financial acumen including unit economics, manufacturing finance, and P&L management
• You’re operationally rigorous with a bias toward discipline, efficiency, and management via metrics
• You have a proven ability to evolve organizations, coach senior leaders, and make hard talent calls
• You’re have the ability to move between 30,000 ft and tactical, getting into the weeds when necessary
• Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance

US Salary Range

$220,000—$345,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.For more information, Explore Our Benefits.