Senior Product Operations Leader – Maritime Autonomy

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Operations for Maritime and Maneuver Dominance in Costa Mesa, CA. You will own the product operations across the division, leading multiple managers and engineers to sustain and scale fielded autonomous systems.

You will build the function, define the operating model, and ensure service quality for external customers while driving VOC-driven improvements across internal teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience managing, mastering, and supporting complex technical systems (maritime, aerospace, robotics, defense, or other electromechanical domains).
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or other relevant field.
• Experience leading multi-team organizations and managing managers with accountability for outcomes across more than one product line or program.
• Experience owning incident-driven workflows including triage, diagnosis, severity, escalation, and resolution across a fielded fleet.
• Technical depth to follow engineers across hardware, software, and networking boundaries.
• Familiarity with reliability lifecycles and product improvement processes.
• Ability to size support demand, headcount, or cost and defend the plan within annual budgets.
• Program management skills to decompose requirements and drive cross-functional results.
• Executive influence and ability to brief senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills; comfortable navigating ambiguity.
• Active or eligible to obtain a U.S. Secret Security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Operations across the Maritime and Maneuver Dominance portfolio, manage teams, and design the operating model.
• Own service quality for external customers and VOC signal for internal teams.
• Scale support across the portfolio by extending coverage to new products and programs.
• Align headcount demand to fielded asset population and delivery schedules; manage budget.
• Own VOC signal and reliability loop across divisions; ensure systemic improvements.
• Set and enforce standards for triage, diagnosis, escalation, and resolution of incidents.
• Sponsor initiatives to mature the function and define end state and success metrics.
• Interface with program teams on support requirements and pricing structures.
• Brief executive stakeholders on fleet health and performance metrics.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Executive influence

Communication

Budgeting & planning

Incident workflow ownership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or related field

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Operations for Maritime and Maneuver Dominance in Costa Mesa, CA. You will own the product operations across the division, leading multiple managers and engineers to sustain and scale fielded autonomous systems.

You will build the function, define the operating model, and ensure service quality for external customers while driving VOC-driven improvements across internal teams.