Director, Mission Insights, Maritime
About The Position
The Director, Mission Insights, Maritime sits within Anduril’s Global Defense Mission Operations team and brings deep maritime operational expertise to international pursuits. The role serves as the operator voice with partner navies, initially supporting Anduril’s maritime pursuit in Japan by translating mission needs into credible concepts of operation and product requirements. The position connects allied maritime operators with Anduril’s engineering and product teams, ensuring operational realities inform product design and research and development. It also supports operational analysis, international business development and capture, interoperability planning, and the identification of capability gaps that may lead to co-development projects or new production lines. The Director represents Anduril with international military leaders, ministries of defense, and internal stakeholders during pursuit shaping and proposal work.
Requirements
- Former U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) with operational experience at sea.
- Designation as a Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) via the Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC), or an equivalent high-end tactical instructor tour.
- Deep expertise in maritime warfighting scenarios, multi-domain integration, surface warfare, integrated air and missile defense (IAMD), or mine countermeasures (MCM).
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex tactical and technical problems into concise, compelling operational concepts for senior military and civilian executives.
- Exceptional public speaking, briefing, and technical writing skills, and comfort engaging directly with foreign flag-level officers and government defense officials.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, domestically and internationally.
- Currently possess and be able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Previous operational planning experience (N3/N5 or J3/J5) at USPACFLT, USINDOPACOM, or a Forward Deployed Naval Forces staff.
- Familiarity with allied naval concepts of operations and interoperability dynamics across the Indo-Pacific.
- Background in operations research, operational analysis, wargaming, or modeling and simulation tools.
- Familiarity with autonomous maritime systems (USVs, UUVs), uncrewed distributed sensors, edge-compute networks, and command-and-control (C2) software.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical, engineering, or national security field; advanced degree preferred.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Develop allied maritime reference missions, operational vignettes, tactics, techniques, procedures, and concepts of employment tailored to partner-nation forces.
- Translate allied maritime operators’ needs and operational constraints into input for Anduril engineering, product, and research and development teams.
- Provide threat-informed analysis of concepts of employment and rigorously evaluate Anduril hardware and software against allied scenarios, competitor systems, and legacy architectures.
- Equip regional Business Development leads with sales-enablement tools, including localized wargaming outcomes, cost-exchange analyses, and mission architectures.
- Define mission frameworks for interoperability between allied sovereign maritime systems and US JADC2 networks, FVEY, and NATO tactical standards.
- Identify capability gaps in allied naval forces and shape requirements for international co-development projects or new Anduril US production lines.
- Represent Anduril as an operational lead with international military leaders, ministries of defense, and internal stakeholders during capture shaping and proposal stages.
- Travel domestically and internationally as needed, up to 25% of the time.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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