Operations Generalist, Mission Systems

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Mission Systems Division develops, produces, and deploys the best-in-class senor systems and other mission-enabling payloads operating across the electro-magnetic spectrum to provide superior battlespace awareness across all relevant domains, platforms and missions for the US and our allies. The mission systems product portfolio spans across imaging systems, radars, software define radios, electromagnetic warfare systems, and C2 software across terrestrial, air, and space applications.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a member of the Division Operations team, you will work directly with the Mission Systems Division Leadership team to build and run business operations across the division and cross functional partners. You will report to the Head of Operations for the Anduril Mission Systems Division but work directly with teams across Anduril corporate (finance, etc.) to support business operations. Your work will vary from quick-turn operational fire-fighting, building and redesigning processes, to leading high-impact strategic projects.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Drive day to day operations and develop internal processes/frameworks for efficient operations of the Mission Systems division. This would include staffing/hiring, communications, seating/facilities, financial tracking, corporate planning, corporate milestone meetings, and working with cross functional partners across these domains.
• Use your quantitative and qualitative skill set to lead strategic initiatives and projects as directed by the Head of Division Operations, ensuring they align with the division’s goals and priorities
• Identify areas for process improvement and drive change management efforts
• Facilitate the decision-making process by analyzing data, coordinating information flow, and ensuring communication clarity
• Project manage across many stakeholders. If you don’t like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you
• Coordinate and prepare for executive leadership meetings, including setting agendas, tracking action items, and ensuring follow-through

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Finance, or related field
• Min 4 years of working experience with experience in a consulting, operations, finance, product management, or general business analysis role, and preferably also experience in a technical engineering role.
• A strong communicator across a wide dynamic range - Ability to translate and articulate thoughts clearly and simply across a wide range of roles (working level engineers, finance partners, recruiters, cross functional leadership, and executives).
• Experience interfacing with leadership and executives - you understand how to facilitate meetings for and engage with executives.
• Strong emotional intelligence and ability to solve operational problems not only from a data driven lens, but also in a people-centric way by building strong cross functional relationships across the company and within the hardware engineering organization.
• Combination ability to execute on a tactical level as well as put together a strategy to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems. You can dive deep into executing operational tasks that require high attention to detail and high organization skills, but you can also zoom out at a 30,000 foot level to create a strategy that solves high level problems for the org and the company.
• High ownership with the horsepower to juggle multiple (3-5+) large projects and priorities in parallel, at a rapid pace, and report out on progress regularly without dropping any balls.
• Discerning and an incredibly fast learner
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs access to export-controlled data.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security c