International Deployment Manager, Asia-Pacific

Anduril • Irvine, CA

5d • Remote

About The Position

In this role as a Deployment Lead on the Air Defense team, you are responsible for delivering Air Defense capabilities in the South Pacific that exceed your customer’s expectations and help them accomplish their Air Defense mission. You'll be directly responsible for the air defense mission in your AO, becoming a subject matter expert on and critical partner to your customer. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, painstaking attention to detail, proactive communication, deep mission understanding, and hard-won product expertise. You remain agile in your ability to solve problems. You feel ownership over the reliability, sustainability, 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 systems within a complex adaptive environment.

Requirements

• Advanced STEM degree or 4+ years of technical work experience, 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
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the year: Asia-Pacific ~35%, other travel for ~15%
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience working in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Mandarin proficiency strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Deployment planning and execution: Orchestrate deployment events, 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.
• Relationship management: Operate independently in a high stakes OCONUS environment. Build trust with customers, industry partners, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. Internalize customer priorities and requirements through careful listening and observation. Build rapport, trust, and confidence in the capabilities being provided. Develop relationships across the organization and communicate honestly and directly. Give and receive feedback well. Ensure partners know expectations and what to expect in return.
• Mission expertise: Develop a deep knowledge of customer's mission requirements, including threats, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, and rules of engagement. Become a subject matter expert and the voice of the customer, communicating requirements and CONOPS to engineers to enhance capability. Shape the future of air defense.
• Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s Family of Systems. Understand the technology underpinning the capability, including sensor modalities, sensor fusion, power, and networking requirements. Forecast capability performance against 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 a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures support in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree