Job Specifications
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
Anduril's Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide.
About The Job
As a Technical Programme Manager in the Maritime Division, you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success.
We are looking for someone to lead the UK Maritime portfolio including technical development of maritime 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 optimised multi-disciplinary projects.
What You’ll Do
Lead, manage, and execute technical programs (greenfield UK programs & bring-to-bear international Anduril Maritime products with meaningful UK sovereign content), from early-stage design through to technology development, system integration, testing, and deployment
Integrate and immerse yourself in Anduril’s product development processes and build effective relationships with personnel across multiple business lines.
Represent Anduril UK both externally with customers and suppliers and also internally with members of the international team.
Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of engineering teams and more broadly across departments.
Provide meaningful insight into current and future customer needs, develop solutions, provide accurate and timely accounting of resources, and ensure crips comms at all levels.
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, from full-software simulations to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations at test sites
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.
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 Naval Architecture or Systems Engineering or Marine Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering, or proven experience in a relevant field
Minimum of 10 years experience with technical leadership and project management/Programme Management
Experience managing ~20m worth of programs
Experience delivering technical engineering programs both domestically and internationally
Ability to work within organisations 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
Must be able to obtain and hold a UK 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 MOD systems
Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision
Benefits
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
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