Senior Program Manager - Maneuver Dominance

Who we are:

The Maneuver Dominance (MD) Team at Anduril develops aerial robotic systems designed to operate in large coordinated teams. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost, Altius, or Roadrunner, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem. We develop perception and autonomy algorithms to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers.

About the role:

We are looking for someone to lead the technical development of new products from concept to delivery. You will work closely with Anduril’s Strategy team and strategic opportunity customers to develop these designs so that requirements are tied to customer inputs and there is traceability to program office technical decisions.
The spectrum of support will be diverse in nature and require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive to completion. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience in programmatic level decisions will play a key component in making sure the right design, analysis and test steps are being completed to ensure success. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.

What you'll do:

• Lead, manage, and execute large, technical programs, from early stage design through to technology development, system integration, testing and deployment, and management of a growing engineering team.
• As a member of the MD Leadership Team, you will be expected to provide meaningful insight into current and future customer needs. You will develop solutions, provide accurate and timely accounting of resources, and ensure crips comms at all levels.
• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of engineering teams and more broadly across departments.
• Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, and potential customers, and work closely with users, vendors and government stakeholders through effective communication, positive attitude, and meticulous follow-through.
• Forge longstanding customer relationships by working closely with Anduril Growth personnel, and help establish beach heads in new areas of interest.
• Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, program office, and third party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously.
• Coordinate and execute frequent test events involving various levels of software and hardware, from full-software simulations at Anduril HQ to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations at test sites
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to both Government Partners and Anduril’s engineers
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Identify, resolve, escalate key cross team dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with other partner teams, such as hardware, product, and test operations as needed.
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.
• Understand the capabilities and limitations of Anduril systems and 3rd party platforms. 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, Engineering or applicable discipline specific to the needs of the MD Team
• Minimum of 10 years experience with technical leadership and project management
• A strong familiarity with with unmanned aircraft, autonomous systems, robotics, or related aerospace / defense technologies
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance
• Travel >25% to customer and test sites, some international

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience leading, managing, and executing technical programs/products, from ideation and early-stage design to technology development, system integration, testing, and deployment
• Significant customer-facing experience leading high profile and high stakes programs, including strong interpersonal skills and executive gravitas
• Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities
• Experience working on mission critical DOD systems
• Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision