Deployment Manager, Air Defense

Anduril Industries • Irvine, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

In your role as a Mission Operations Deployment Manager on the Air Defense team, you are responsible for delivering and sustaining a capability that meets our customers’ mission requirements and exceeds their expectations. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, detail orientation, proactive communication, deep mission understanding, and hard-won product expertise. You feel ownership over the health and performance of all assets and technologies deployed to your customers and users, and ensure that the system delivers when they need it most. You represent Anduril to our customers, building their confidence and trust through your professionalism and commitment to excellence. You also represent our customers back to Anduril, communicating user feedback and lessons learned to continuously improve our product and our team in response to evolving mission needs. Above all, you set the standard for what good looks like for your deployment, and you rally your Anduril teammates to meet that standard every single day.

Requirements

• Advanced degree or 3-5+ years experience in a technical field, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain
• Highly organized creative problem-solver with proven project management skills
• Proven experience leading tech-enabled teams of peers while building a culture of influence through relationships
• Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
• Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the time

Nice To Haves

• Ability to obtain a TS Clearance, with SCI eligibility strongly preferred
• Experience in operating the Air Defense sector
• Knowledge and experience with DoW and USG customers and installations

Responsibilities

• Deployment planning and execution: Orchestrate hundreds of deployment events each year, including site installations, integrations, test and evaluation exercises, demonstrations, and training and maintenance visits. Lead a cross-functional team that spans hardware supply, logistics, engineering, and more to do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Manage every step of the deployment process, from site survey to testing, pack-out, installation, training, and sustainment. 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 customers, industry partners, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. Internalize your counterpart’s priorities and requirements through careful listening and observation. Build rapport, trust, and confidence in our capability with empathy and responsiveness. Develop relationships across the organization and communicate honestly and directly. Give and receive feedback well. Ensure partners know what you expect from them, and know exactly what to expect from you.
• Mission expertise: Develop a deep knowledge of your customer’s mission requirements, including the nature of the threats they face, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more. Become a subject matter expert and the voice of the customer, capable of effectively communicating requirements and CONOPS to Anduril engineers so they can continue to enhance our capability to meet evolving mission needs. Be deeply motivated to shape the future of air defense.
• Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s Family of Systems. Be innately curious about the technology underpinning our capability, and not satisfied with a superficial understanding of how and why it works. Constantly educate yourself about the strengths and weaknesses of different sensor modalities, the challenges of sensor fusion, power and networking requirements, and more. Become an opinionated power user who can reliably forecast how our capability will perform against a broad range of threat profiles, environmental conditions, and mission constraints.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior