Special Projects Senior Manager, Air Defense

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

Air Defense is a high-octane, rapidly scaling business line that develops, integrates, and fields an expanding mix of mature and novel capabilities to detect and defeat UAS threats. As our business line continues to scale, our newest emerging initiatives require focused direction and ownership to rapidly mature in support of Air Defense’s operational, technical, and financial objectives. These special projects are critical to our organization’s continued growth: they can convert into a new product, a new team, or a new program.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Special Projects leader within Air Defense’s Mission Operations organization, you will be an innovative and independent problem-solver at the forefront of some of our most critical initiatives. You will be rapidly inserted into fresh, dynamic, and at times chaotic situations on a weekly basis. You will wear many hats.

You will be the face of Anduril to many of our end-users and our customers, capable of articulating the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s products at both an executive’s and a layman’s level. You will communicate the “why” for emerging Air Defense technology at the intersection of programmatic, financial, technical, and operational considerations.

By the same token, you will often be the face of the Air Defense business line to internal stakeholders and partners across the Anduril organization, including both functional teams such as legal and finance as well as other business lines. You will apply superb judgment and interpersonal skills to navigate tradeoffs and find solutions that advance Anduril’s interests across multiple dimensions.

We move fast at Anduril and give tremendous freedom and autonomy to our new hires to assume responsibility and exercise prudent interdisciplinary judgement. You should expect to be running at least two cross-functional projects independently within 60 days of hiring. When you join our team, you’re signing up to immediately make an impact in our organization and with our customers globally.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Capability Development - You will lead cross-functional teams across the Air Defense business line and wider Anduril organization. You’ll work across the product, engineering, operations, logistics, and test teams to build early-stage products, drive development and maturation initiatives, and ensure our products are ready to be deployed operationally.
• Program Management - You will partner with capture, growth, and engineering leads to shepherd emerging proposals into successful programs for the business line’s most strategic priorities. You will forecast resources, liaise with subject matter experts on engineering capacity, and exercise both strategic and tactical decision-making to ensure that our newest programs are set up for success across the dimensions of cost, schedule, and performance.
• Support Global Growth Initiatives - You will be a trusted product consultant for the Air Defense Business Line’s international growth opportunities and for strategic international engagements. You will communicate the nuances of engineering and production roadmaps for Air Defense products, consult on product-market fit for international growth-leads, and participate as the business-line representative in high-visibility engagements with senior domestic & foreign government officials.
• Agile Flex Capacity - As Anduril rapidly scales we are are often presented with unexpected opportunities that require a nimble and autonomous leader to own end-to-end. You will be a full-field player for the business line and will demonstrate extreme professional versatility as an elite generalist, filling in where the need is greatest.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

This role is not for everyone. You will live on a constant rollercoaster of “it’s so over / we’re so back,” and you need to be the force that steadies the ship in large swells. We are far more interested in what you have done than where you are coming from, and have distilled some of the attributes that we are looking for below: