Director of Operations & Compliance, Quality

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.

This role exists to ensure that quality is not just measured—but embedded, operationalized, and elevated across the enterprise. As a strategic and confidential thought partner to the VP of Quality, your mission is to multiply your leader’s impact on the organization through clarity, execution, and alignment. You’ll guide the implementation of contractual standards, build governance where none exists, and bridge cross-functional gaps with both precision and empathy. This is a role for someone who earns trust, reduces noise, and turns ambiguity into executable clarity.

Core Responsibilities

You serve as the executive amplifier and strategic integrator for the VP of Quality—ensuring that intent becomes action, and action scales across teams.
Internal to the Quality Team

• Support the VP of Quality in the extent, capacity, and focus desired—adapting to evolving priorities and organizational needs
• Support the Quality team leaders and division members in execution of their responsibilities to maximize efficiency and quality output of the Division’s responsibilities.
• Build and reinforce internal delivery rhythms to drive team alignment, issue resolution, and program success
• Develop and track internal KPIs and OKRs that reflect execution fidelity, stakeholder satisfaction, and risk posture
• Lead cross-team initiatives that require executive sponsorship, frontline coordination, and zero drop-off in accountability
• Support organizational design and structure within the Quality function, ensuring roles, workflows, and reporting lines are optimized for scale
• Participate in QBRs and leadership planning cadences, owning content creation and presentation materials for or on behalf of the VP of Quality for attendees of QBR
• Drive relationship-building across managers and their teams, fostering mutual ownership of KPI/OKR adoption, performance culture, and program momentum
• Champion cross-functional training opportunities and enablement, embedding quality and compliance fluency throughout partner functions
• Provide Governance and Strategic oversight of DCMA lead and DCMA compliance program to ensure alignment of contractual obligations of evolving federal mandates.
• Collaborate with the DCMA lead to form the DCMA team, identify enterprise resources and relationships, and deploy scalable systems to achieve DCMA and related compliance.
• Co-develop, in concert with DCMA lead, division level KPI’s / OKR’s for performance tracking as related to DCMA related compliance and governance.
• Ensure reporting via a structure which routinely monitors DCMA based performance criteria including but not limited to CARS closure and reoccurrence, QMS audit metrics, and audit success rates.
• Allocate resources to support high-risk and high-impact contract executions, and audit readiness given division standards and budget.
• Monitor cyclical reporting of DCMA KPI’s / OKR’s to ensure proactive execution, and fulfillment of contractual requirements and Quality Division standards.
• Track organizational resilience against DCMA findings and contract risk scoring.
• Gauge, and revise in concert with DCMA lead, DCMA compliance efforts of implementation and efficacy to validate all inputs from finance, engineering, legal and operations are synchronized, traceable, and goal driven.
• Evaluate and, where appropriate, direct strategic DCMA interactions with senior government officials to ensure cohesion of corporate objectives mission and DCMA priorities.
• Coordinate, communicate, and facilitate—serving as the heartbeat of the Quality team and the connective tissue across the organization
• Take on special projects that fall outside traditional swim lanes, acting as the go-to problem solver for ambiguous or high-impact challenges

Enterprise-Facing Leadership

• Translate contractual quality requirements into tactical implementation plans across Engineering, Production, and Legal (LCBA)
• Coordinate scheduling of deliverables aligned to