Technical Program Manager

Slope; United States; On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Software Technical Program Manager for the Air Defense Engineering Team. This role focuses on ensuring the Air Defense Software Team operates effectively, partnering with engineering leads to optimize output and align programs with business goals.

The candidate will own delivery across multiple programs, manage cross-functional initiatives, and maintain strong communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years experience in TPM/TPM-related roles in a software environment.
• Solid technical aptitude and understanding of software development lifecycle and architectures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with minimal oversight and unblock themselves.
• Experience coordinating across multiple programs and teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team with partner engineering teams.
• Autonomously execute on broad requirements to deliver outcomes on multiple programs.
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive program execution and team velocity.
• Demonstrate high ownership and become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
• Manage cross-team projects and implement efficient project management workflows.
• Identify and resolve systemic execution issues requiring broader initiatives.
• Support staffing plans and prioritize conflicting needs across the organization.
• Track progress and communicate program status to stakeholders.
• Proactively remove obstacles to maintain clarity and progress.
• Understand architectural implications and propose technical alternatives when needed.

Skills

Technical Program Manager

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

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.

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

As a Software Technical Program Manager on the Air Defense Engineering Team you’ll own efforts to ensure that the Air Defense Software Team is operating effectively and efficiently. You will be owning the operational aspects of a large engineering team and partnering with engineering leads to optimize and scale team output, and ensure overall execution towards business goals.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Help to define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team while working with partner engineering teams to ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.
• Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, program office, and third party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously
• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and more broadly across departments. Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Identify and resolve systemic execution issues across the team or group that require broader initiatives to resolve.
• Partner with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones
• Identify, resolve, escalation key cross team dependencies.
• Support leads with quarterly and ongoing staffing plans across the organization, particularly where difficult prioritization conflicts exist.
• Track and communicate the progress of the team or group’s key programs. Define efficient processes for communicating group program status more broadly.
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.

CORE REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in a software development environment.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• strong process and organization skills
• strong written / verbal communication skills
• Ability to describe and figure out the shape of a problem and work through a solution
• Experience running projects and processes with little oversight; can unblock themselves
• Strong execution & prioritization spikes
• Highly developed analytical and communication skills
• High grit, proactive, and enthusiastic

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in building programs for software deliverables from ground up
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
• Experience is rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes
• Experience with creating communication plans for various levels of stakeholders
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, GIAC-PEN, Prosci, SAFe or PMP
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline

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:

Benefits

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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