Senior Director, Defense Solutions & Growth

Anduril-1; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company driving advanced autonomy, AI, and sensor fusion for national security. Washington, DC-based role supporting the Strategic Growth organization and Anduril Labs leads initiatives from capture through prototyping and system design.

The candidate will manage executive engagements, shape strategies, and assemble cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions for DoD and commercial customers while maintaining a top-tier security posture and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proven development and growth leader with prior DoD capture and sales experience.
• Experience across full product lifecycle from concept to fielding.
• High-energy, high-ownership leader who will drive performance in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent writing and communication skills; experience briefing executives.
• Knowledge of DoD/IC/Commercial programs, platforms and payloads, to include enabling technologies and systems integration.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in systems engineering and growth support.
• Willingness to travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Initiate and sustain executive engagements with existing and prospective customers and lead the response strategy for RFIs, RFPs, RFWPs, and unsolicited proposals that position Anduril to win.
• Lead technical and programmatic opportunities in the initial shaping, capture, and design stage of a strategic growth opportunity, and support the end-to-end strategic growth process.
• Develop and manage multi-business line collaborations to unlock use cases and markets for mature and emerging Anduril products with a focus on increased connectivity, containerization, and interoperability with customer command and control architectures.
• Manage the detailed design of the system and subsystems including requirements development, systems and subsystem trades and optimization, risk management etc. to ensure the appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters, schedule, costs and risks in order to shape the growth opportunity.
• Own the technical and programmatic success of strategic growth opportunities, establish technical and programmatic vision assemble cross-functional teams of internal and external subject matter experts within the Anduril Divisions, and communicate that vision to them.
• Set up trade analysis to enable the exploration of early conceptual designs while working closely with technical experts and strategic growth team to find the right solution to current and future gaps in the DoW capability to ensure the war-fighter has the best solution for current and future conflicts.
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing to ensure the fabrication of prototype and low-rate production articles are capable of expansion to full rate manufacturing.
• Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic communications

DoD capture & sales

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical writing

Program management

Security clearance

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical or Software engineering

Master’s degree in STEM (preferred)

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company driving advanced autonomy, AI, and sensor fusion for national security. Washington, DC-based role supporting the Strategic Growth organization and Anduril Labs leads initiatives from capture through prototyping and system design.

The candidate will manage executive engagements, shape strategies, and assemble cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions for DoD and commercial customers while maintaining a top-tier security posture and a