Head of Operations, EW

ABOUT THE JOB

The Head of Operations owns the execution machinery of the EW business line. You lead the teams that plan, deliver, deploy, and sustain every EW product Anduril puts in the field. Your organization spans four functions — Technical Program Management, Program Management, Mission & Deployment Operations, and Sustainment Operations — and your job is to make them operate as a cohesive system that delivers capability to the warfighter on time, on budget, and at quality.

This is not a coordination role. You own the outcome. When programs deliver, it's because your organization planned well, executed with discipline, and solved problems before they became crises. When programs struggle, you're the person accountable for understanding why and fixing it. You set the standards, build the teams, and drive the culture of execution across the entire EW portfolio.

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Technical Program Management

• Oversight of TPMs managing complex development efforts across the EW portfolio (Pulsar, Polaris, Neutron, and emerging platforms)
• Technical schedule management — ensuring internal and external development projects and programs are planned with realistic timelines informed by engineering complexity, not just calendar dates
• Risk management as a discipline — not just tracking risks but actively driving mitigation and making risk-informed decisions at the portfolio level
• Integration of technical and programmatic perspectives — ensuring schedules, budgets, and plans reflect engineering reality
• Establishing TPM standards — how programs are run, what artifacts are maintained, what "good" looks like across the team

Program Management

• Oversight of PMs managing cost, schedule, and contractual performance across active programs
• Customer-facing program execution — milestone delivery, CDRLs, reviews, and status reporting that meets or exceeds customer expectations
• Proposal and capture support — cost volumes, BOEs, schedules, and management approaches for new business
• Contract management — understanding terms, managing scope, and ensuring deliverables align with contractual obligations
• Portfolio-level visibility — providing leadership with accurate, honest, actionable status across all programs simultaneously
• Tight collaboration with growth and account management to expand program scope and transition to scaled delivery

Mission & Deployment Operations

• Alignment of demand and supply planning, including prioritization and allocation, to achieve program requirements.
• Planning, logistics, and execution of EW system deployments to operational environments
• Coordination across engineering, production, customers, and field teams to ensure deployments succeed on schedule
• Deployment readiness reviews — ensuring systems, support equipment, documentation, and personnel are prepared before committing to a deployment date
• Continuous improvement of deployment processes — reducing cycle time, increasing predictability, and capturing lessons learned
• Developing tight feedback loops between field performance, program execution, and product development
• Scaling deployment operations as the portfolio grows from dozens of fielded systems to hundreds

Operations & Sustainment (O&S)

• Sustainment planning and execution for fielded EW systems — spare parts, repairs, upgrades, and technical support
• O&S program management for large, multi-year sustainment contracts
• Field support coordination — ensuring deployed systems remain operational and customers have responsive support
• Sustainment metrics — availability, mean time to repair, supply chain health, and customer satisfaction
• Transition planning — designing sustainment approaches during development so systems are supportable from day one, not as an afterthought

Leadership & Organization

• Building, scaling, and leading an organization