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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Air Defense team builds networked sensors and effectors that detect, track, identify, and defeat unmanned aerial systems (UAS) threats. This role is a technical program manager for the Air Defense business line, responsible for managing multiple sophisticated parallel initiatives while ensuring alignment with strategic direction and appropriate resourcing.
In this position, you will serve as a technical leader and primary liaison between Anduril's engineering organization and external clients. You will build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. You will drive technical outcomes through deep understanding of system performance, managing incident response, using metrics to identify improvement areas, and maintaining clear communication of system state to customers.
Key responsibilities include translating strategic business goals into actionable project plans with clear milestones, overseeing allocation of personnel and budget, executing autonomously on broad and ambiguous requirements from external clients, managing and accelerating cross-team projects spanning hardware, product, and test operations, and supporting the drafting of technical proposals to accurately scope and resource scaling opportunities.
You will thrive in ambiguous environments, create order from chaos, and demonstrate high ownership across all work. This role requires meticulous planning, thorough understanding of mission requirements, and thoughtful orchestration between Anduril teams and external stakeholders. You will be expected to learn technical concepts quickly and employ them in conjunction with program management skills to lead cross-functional efforts and deliver outcomes for both Anduril and its customers.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven customer-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in defense, national security, or aerospace domains
- Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
- Solid technical aptitude with ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance
- Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computer science, or related field
- Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills with ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive decisions
- Experience rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes
- Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence
