Strategic Real Estate Lead for Defense Tech Growth

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Strategic Planning Lead for AD&S to own the space demand and supply plan across programs, sites, and ramps. You will define requirements, build a growth-focused real estate roadmap, and partner with Space Planning, RE&F, engineering, and production to size and locate facilities.

The role targets long-term real estate strategy, capital investments, and risk mitigation to enable rapid, secure hardware development. Travel up to 10% for site visits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 6-10 years of real estate, facilities, strategy, business operations, program or operations management, with a clear interest in real estate and facilities and a record of enabling growth.
• Ability to see the big picture, apply it to day-to-day decisions, and do whatever the work requires, from strategic planning to boots-on-the-ground tasks.
• Ability to learn a program quickly (its product, schedule, and stage) and form a view on what space it needs and when. Some fluency in engineering and production processes preferred
• High agency and low ego: you've taken an ambiguous problem with no playbook, owned it, and driven it to a decision
• Excellent communication, with a demonstrated capacity to influence cross-functional teams and senior executives you don't report to
• Ability to travel up to 10% for site visits and stakeholder meetings
• Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Optimize supply, demand of our current real estate portfolio.
• Establish Process and Structure. Define the requirements and process for raising space requests, vetting such requests, and ensuring AD&S space demand data is accurate, up-to-date, and can be trusted.
• Pressure Test Demand. Challenge every request against headcount plans, program schedules, and production ramps.
• Match Demand to Supply. Size gaps against current and committed space by site and timeframe, and work with corporate Space Planning and Strategic Real Estate to close them.
• Sequence the Moves. Build and own the plan for who goes where, and when.
• Create and execute longer-term real estate strategy.
• Capital Investment. Own the three to five year model of where AD&S is going and growing.
• ‘Build Where’ Strategy. Work with production and engineering teams to strategize longer-term ‘build-where’ model for more complex hardware integration.
• Scenario Modeling. Model near-term scenarios (program slips, ramp changes, wins and losses, new sites) and their effect on space and cost.

Skills

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Operational management

Analytical modeling

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Excel

Python

SQL

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Strategic Planning Lead for AD&S to own the space demand and supply plan across programs, sites, and ramps. You will define requirements, build a growth-focused real estate roadmap, and partner with Space Planning, RE&F, engineering, and production to size and locate facilities.

The role targets long-term real estate strategy, capital investments, and risk mitigation to enable rapid, secure hardware development. Travel up to 10% for site visits.