Mission Operations, Air Defense Emerging Capabilities

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Mission execution: Do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Meticulous and detailed-oriented, you will manage every step of the fielding process for our newest capabilities. No job is too small. You capture every learning point and bake them into operational processes for future deployments. You consistently demonstrate extraordinary judgement, grit, and composure in high pressure situations. You anticipate every contingency, build lightweight processes, soberly assess and mitigate risk, and deliberately learn from your experiences to continuously improve.
• Relationship management: Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, potential customers and users through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. You are able to brief customers on emerging capabilities and represent Anduril to senior leaders. Anduril is a lean, agile, engineering first organization. You must be able to develop relationships across the company to operate effectively. You will deeply understand product development priorities and business development opportunities, and frame trade-offs to engineering and sales decision makers. You must effectively communicate risks and expectations to a diverse group of stakeholders
• Mission expertise: You will develop a deep understanding of mission requirements for emerging capabilities, including the nature of threats, operational and resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more. You must proactively communicate this understanding to Anduril engineers so they can continue to enhance new technologies to support evolving mission needs and product fit.
• Product expertise: You will develop a complete understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s existing CUAS FoS, as well as a specific set of new technologies on the bleeding edge of development. In this role, you will work with engineers to connect the evolving product theses with the mission and customer requirements, taking an expansive view and developing data-backed opinions on product direction.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Defense or USG National Security sector background strongly preferred
• Proven experience delivering technology to government organizations or large commercial institutions
• Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
• 2+ years work experience in a technology company or as a part of a technical implementation team
• Eligible for a US DoD S/TS security clearance
• Can travel up to 50% of the year