Technical Publications Operations Lead

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Technical Publications Operations Manager to own intake, staffing, sequencing, and delivery tracking across programs. You will run Jira intake, allocate resources, monitor throughput, and resolve cross-program priorities in collaboration with senior managers.

This execution-focused role requires coordinating with Mission Readiness, Engineering, Program Management, Training, ILS, Support, and Product to keep publication work aligned with schedules

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in operations, program management, resource planning, or workflow ownership in a technical environment.
• Experience owning intake, prioritization, throughput tracking, or resource allocation for a multi-stakeholder team.
• Experience driving execution across teams where you did not have direct reporting authority.
• Experience using Jira or a comparable work-management system as an operating system of record.
• Ability to make timely, evidence-based resourcing and prioritization decisions.
• Willingness to make and defend firm staffing and sequencing decisions among programs with competing priorities.
• Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US).

Responsibilities

• Own department-level Jira intake, triage, workflow governance, and priority routing for Technical Publications work.
• Decide how work is sequenced and staffed when program priorities compete.
• Own the department’s view of workload, throughput, blockers, delivery risk, and capacity across the work portfolio.
• Reallocate writers against changing program demand and elevate only the conflicts that genuinely require leadership decision.
• Build and maintain reporting and operating metrics that leadership uses to assess department performance and staffing needs.
• Run recurring execution reviews, planning sessions, and follow-up to completion.
• Coordinate with Mission Readiness, Engineering, Program Management, Training, ILS, Support, and Product to keep publication work aligned with program schedules.

Skills

Operations management

Program management

Resource planning

Workflow ownership

Jira

Decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jira

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Technical Publications Operations Manager to own intake, staffing, sequencing, and delivery tracking across programs. You will run Jira intake, allocate resources, monitor throughput, and resolve cross-program priorities in collaboration with senior managers.

This execution-focused role requires coordinating with Mission Readiness, Engineering, Program Management, Training, ILS, Support, and Product to keep publication work aligned with schedules