Deployment & Training Manager, Commercial

Anduril • Irvine, CA

38d • Remote

About The Position

As a Deployment and Training Lead on the Air Defense team, you are responsible for delivering, training, and sustaining a capability that meets our customers' mission requirements and exceeds their expectations. You own the full lifecycle of a deployment — from planning and installation through new equipment training, sustainment, and continuous improvement. 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 are equally invested in ensuring that end users are trained, confident, and proficient in employing the capability. You deliver world-class New Equipment Training (NET) and sustainment training programs that let our customers organically grow and maintain proficiency long after the initial fielding. You identify knowledge gaps and build solutions that drive user proficiency and enduring operational readiness. 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. In this role, you will manage deployments and the associated training enterprise for Anduril's Air Defense products across a region, ensuring mission readiness in support of national security infrastructure. Collaborating closely with the Program Manager and Program Operations Manager, you will play a crucial role in developing long-term deployment, training, and sustainment operations aligned with customer priorities. As a key team member, you will engage across multiple business lines and facilitate customer interactions, making flexibility, humility, and a collaborative mindset essential qualities for success.

Requirements

• Advanced degree or 5+ years of experience in a technical field, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain
• Proven experience planning and delivering technical training programs, including new equipment training (NET) and sustainment training
• Highly organized creative problem-solver with proven project management skills
• Experienced in the creation and upkeep of documentation for new or developing processes, including training curricula and programs of instruction
• 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
• Experience translating technical concepts into operational requirements, performance specifications, and training materials
• Ownership mentality with strong initiative in managing your own work in potentially remote environments
• Comfort communicating complex concepts simply across various methods of communication and tools
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance; Top Secret preferred
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the time, primarily regional travel across assigned deployment and training sites

Nice To Haves

• Operational experience delivering defense technology solutions to USG customers
• Prior military experience, particularly in Air Defense, Fires, or related operational roles
• Project Management Professional Certification
• Experience designing Train-the-Trainer or instructor-certification programs that build customer self-sufficiency
• Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Deployment planning and execution: Orchestrate hundreds of deployment events each year, including site installations, test and evaluation exercises, demonstrations, and training and maintenance visits, leading a cross-functional team that spans hardware supply, logistics, engineering, and more to achieve mission success.
• Manage every step of the deployment process, from site survey to testing, pack-out, installation, training, and sustainment.
• New Equipment Training (NET) delivery: Own the NET mission for deployments, resourcing, developing, and delivering initial fielding training that takes customers from zero to operational proficiency on the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems.
• Build programs of instruction, training schedules, and hands-on individual and collective events tailored to each customer's mission and skill baseline.
• Sustainment training and readiness: Build and run recurring sustainment training to maintain proficiency as personnel rotate, threats evolve, and product capabilities advance.
• Establish training gates, proficiency standards, and refresh cycles; plan and resource realistic sustainment events; and measure success by the enduring operational readiness of the forces supported.
• Relationship management: Build trust with customers, industry partners, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through.
• Internalize counterpart's priorities and requirements through careful listening and observation.
• Develop relationships across the organization and communicate honestly and directly.
• Mission expertise: Develop deep knowledge of customer's mission requirements, including threats, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more.
• Serve as the counter unmanned systems (cUAS) subject matter expert for customers, helping them resource realistic training and manage all hardware and software configurations for cUAS-peculiar equipment.
• Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril's Family of Systems.
• Educate yourself about the strengths and weaknesses of different sensor modalities, the challenges of sensor fusion, power and networking requirements, and more.
• Forecast how the capability will perform against a broad range of threat profiles, environmental conditions, and mission constraints.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
• 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: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree