Talent Strategy & SG&A Planning Lead

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a seasoned Talent Planning Partner to own demand and capacity planning, bridging analytics and business strategy. You’ll manage headcount, capacity against demand, and stakeholder-facing recommendations with executive presence.

You will collaborate with Finance and TA leadership, guiding expansion plans and international movement, while turning messy data into actionable clarity for leadership decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in talent acquisition, operations, strategy, or planning-intensive roles.
• Strong analytical skills; build and maintain headcount/capacity models.
• Experience creating structure in ambiguous, incomplete data environments.
• Translate analysis into concise, decision-ready narratives for leadership.
• Understand recruiting lifecycle, capacity math, and ramp constraints.
• Influence stakeholders who do not report to you.
• Operate with high autonomy and make prioritization decisions with limited guidance.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to export-controlled information access.

Responsibilities

• Own the Headcount Plan: SG&A headcount planning, capacity model, change control, leadership updates.
• Model capacity against demand and produce a rolling roadmap (demand, capacity, gap, decisions, dates).
• Run demand intake and drive prioritization; turn requests into a single source of truth.
• Build data infrastructure; drive recruiting analytics adoption for self-serve insights.
• Partner with Finance to align hiring plans with SG&A budgets and downstream implications.
• Own TA market mapping for expansion (sites/countries) and influence in-country ramps.

Skills

Talent planning

Executive storytelling

Stakeholder influence

Autonomy & prioritization

Recruiting lifecycle

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Workday

Greenhouse

BI platforms

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a seasoned Talent Planning Partner to own demand and capacity planning, bridging analytics and business strategy. You’ll manage headcount, capacity against demand, and stakeholder-facing recommendations with executive presence.

You will collaborate with Finance and TA leadership, guiding expansion plans and international movement, while turning messy data into actionable clarity for leadership decisions.