Strategic Talent Planning Lead, SG&A

Anduril Industries; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in the United States seeks a strategic talent planning partner to own demand, capacity, and the enterprise view. You’ll bridge analytics and business, own the numbers for your scope, and drive the decisions that move hiring plans forward.

You’ll work with TA leadership and finance, design scalable data infrastructure, and partner across divisions to map expansion. The role demands executive presence, autonomy, and a bias for action, turning incomplete information into clear

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in talent acquisition, people operations, business operations, strategy, or a planning-intensive function.
• Strong analytical skills: proficient in Excel/Sheets and building headcount/capacity models.
• Experience creating structure in ambiguous situations with incomplete data.
• Ability to translate analysis into a concise decision-ready narrative for leadership.
• Understanding of recruiting lifecycle and capacity math to catch infeasible plans.
• Experience influencing stakeholders who do not report to you.
• Comfort operating with high autonomy and making prioritization calls.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to access to export-controlled information.

Responsibilities

• Own the Headcount Plan: SG&A headcount planning, capacity model, change control, leadership view.
• Model Capacity Against Demand and produce a rolling roadmap.
• Run Demand Intake and Prioritization: frame tradeoffs and justify hiring needs.
• Build Infrastructure & Data Layer: automate processes, analytics, and self-serve dashboards.
• Partner With Finance: align budgets and downstream implications.
• Own TA Market Mapping for Expansion: density, wage implications, capacity to staff new sites.
• Report International Movement with domestic and in-country needs.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Data analytics

Excel/Sheets

Headcount modeling

Storytelling decks

Stakeholder influence

Autonomy

US Person

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Workday

ChartHop

Oracle

Rippling

Greenhouse

BI tools

Job description

Anduril Industries in the United States seeks a strategic talent planning partner to own demand, capacity, and the enterprise view. You’ll bridge analytics and business, own the numbers for your scope, and drive the decisions that move hiring plans forward.

You’ll work with TA leadership and finance, design scalable data infrastructure, and partner across divisions to map expansion. The role demands executive presence, autonomy, and a bias for action, turning incomplete information into clear