Staff Program Manager

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Program Manager for the Sustainment team to lead large-scale, high-impact projects from cradle to grave. You will define problems, shape solutions, and drive implementation with ownership, across Product Operations, Training, and Deployments.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to align strategies and deliver mission-critical outcomes in national-security programs. Gain exposure to data-driven decision making, tooling delivery, and cross-functional execution.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated self-starter with ability to resolve issues independently.
• Extensive ownership and problem-solving skills in unstructured situations.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical rigor and first principles thinking.
• Mastery in developing workflows and operational effectiveness.
• 4+ years as a cross-functional leader in hardware, software, or peopleware.
• Ability to obtain and hold US security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery and implementation of software tooling for Sustainment capabilities across the enterprise
• Take extreme ownership of projects, from definition, to solution and implementation.
• Work on strategic problems, providing structure and shepherding cross-functional groups of stakeholders towards decisions on strategic issues.
• Identify organizational gaps and problems through an intimate, tactical-level understanding of the team’s operations, then build consensus and resources to solve these gaps
• Weaponize the large amounts of data collected to create insights that drive business decisions
• Execute ad hoc projects with internal and cross-functional teams to support critical operational and financial decision making.

Skills

Self-starter

Ownership mindset

Problem solving

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Security clearance eligible

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.

Company Overview

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Our technology helps our customers solve their toughest challenges by enabling them to make better, more informed decisions in life-and-death situations. We’ve assembled a diverse team of experts in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and data analysis that are creating software and hardware solutions to radically evolve the capabilities of the United States and our allies. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact, come join Anduril and build the future of defense.

Team Overview

The Deployments / Sustainment team is responsible for fielding Anduril’s products to customers. Our core functions span everything from logistics and field operations to product operations and training. This includes site installation, product observability, incident triage, maintenance and repairs, user training, and technical documentation. We work within a broader ecosystem that includes many functional teams across business lines, including Program Management, Engineering, Mission Operations, and Deployments. This team is a crucial component of ensuring customer and mission success, and plays a critical role in shaping how Anduril continues to execute its mission of providing cutting-edge capabilities to the United States and its allies.

Role Specifics

As a Program Manager on the Sustainment team, your mission is to spearhead large-scale, high-impact projects and initiatives from cradle to grave. You will be responsible for taking ambiguous, undefined problems and providing structure and extreme ownership from definition, to solution, and implementation. You will work across various sustainment functions including Product Operations, Training, and Deployments. You should have an aptitude for working with senior leaders across diverse stakeholder groups to achieve strategic objectives. If you are passionate about ground-breaking technology, contributing to the national security missions, interacting alongside professionals that span a wide-range of disciplines, and executing high-leverage strategic initiatives, then Anduril is interested in speaking with you.

What You’ll Do

• Manage delivery and implementation of software tooling for Sustainment capabilities across the enterprise
• Take extreme ownership of projects, from definition, to solution and implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them. If this does not excite you, this is not the role for you.
• Work on strategic problems, providing structure and shepherding cross-functional groups of stakeholders towards decisions on strategic issues. You will leverage critical thinking to detail implications and tradeoffs of decisions without losing sight of the simple “so what”
• Identify organizational gaps and problems through an intimate, tactical-level understanding of the team’s operations, then build consensus and resources to solve these gaps
• Weaponize the large amounts of data collected to create insights that drive business decisions
• Execute ad hoc projects with internal and cross-functional teams to support critical operational and financial decision making.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a self-starter, able to find and resolve issues on your own. Don’t wait to be told what to do - we want someone who we have to tell to slow down.
• Extreme ownership and strong aptitude for problem solving in unstructured situations - analysis, developing a solution plan, and executing.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required to enable an effective interface with key stakeholders, and all levels of management.
• Analytical rigor and first principles thinking - be resistant to prevailing narratives in favor of unbiased approaches to hard data. Iterate rapidly on hypotheses and pursue dialectical process.
• Mastery in developing and implementing workflows, achieving outcomes, and operational effectiveness.
• 4+ years as cross-functional leader in hardware, software, or peopleware organizations
• Must be able to obtain and hold a US security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with US military, hardware, software, and product operations are all pluses.

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 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:

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 .

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