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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead international deployment execution for a maritime undersea domain awareness program. The Seabed Sentry team delivers subsea autonomous sensing and communication capabilities for critical commercial and defense missions, operating with urgency to move from concept to deployment in months.
In this role, you will own end-to-end execution of international demonstrations and system deployments, serving as the connective tissue between product teams, engineering, operations, business development, and international customers. You will operate in the details, in the room with customers, and be accountable for delivery. This is a hands-on role for someone energized by complexity who builds trust through competence and follow-through.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own planning, scheduling, and execution of international system deployments and demonstrations for undersea domain awareness capabilities
- Build and maintain program schedules in Jira, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and critical path items are current and visible to all stakeholders
- Develop and maintain milestone trackers, risk registers, and action item burndowns across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Drive technical alignment across hardware, software, and systems engineering teams to ensure deployment-ready configurations meet customer requirements
- Prepare and deliver technical briefings and program status reviews to international customers, senior leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Coordinate logistics for international hardware shipments including export compliance, temporary import/permanent export documentation, and customs coordination
- Identify and manage risks and dependencies across engineering, supply chain, compliance, and operations — escalate early with proposed mitigations
- Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering tasking and ensure product teams understand the operational context
- Keep Jira updated as the single source of truth for schedule status
- Drive alignment across stakeholders who don't always agree — get decisions made, documented, and executed
- Support contract amendment processes, milestone payment tracking, and deliverable acceptance
- Document product baselines, configuration states, and deployment readiness criteria in Confluence
- Operate as the single point of accountability for deployment readiness
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of technical program management experience, preferably in defense, maritime, or aerospace
- Demonstrated ability to manage international customer engagements and deployments in high-stakes environments
- Strong technical foundation — able to go deep on systems architecture, integration challenges, and hardware/software trade-offs
- Experience building and presenting technical briefings to senior military and government stakeholders
- Track record of managing complex, multi-team schedules with interdependent milestones and hard deadlines
- Proficiency in Jira for program scheduling, sprint management, and milestone tracking
- Exceptional organizational skills — tracking every action item, dependency, and open risk
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and high-pressure situations where the plan is changing
- Experience with export control processes (ITAR/EAR) and international logistics
- Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, contract structures (FFP, T&M, CPFF), and milestone-based deliverables
- Ability to travel internationally up to 25%-40%, including extended deployments for demonstrations
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED:
- Experience in undersea warfare, autonomous systems, or maritime ISR programs
- Background in systems engineering or test & evaluation
- Experience working with Indo-Pacific partner nations
- Experience with Confluence for documentation and product baseline management
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
