Senior Manager, Workplace

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

17h

About The Position

Anduril’s Workplace Operations team, part of the Real Estate & Facilities division, is seeking a Senior Workplace Manager to support workplace operations across its Southern California footprint. The role oversees and maintains the operational aspects of corporate offices, R&D labs, and production and manufacturing spaces, ensuring they are safe, highly functional, and supportive of a positive work experience.

The Senior Workplace Manager directs multi-site operations, develops scalable procedures and playbooks, partners with business units to anticipate space needs and support operational velocity, and uses workplace analytics to manage costs and improve space utilization. The role also coordinates facility projects and expansions, communicates operational issues and incident responses, and coaches and develops a high-performing workplace team. Success requires a high-ownership, low-ego approach, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to resolve complex problems with minimal guidance.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of multi-site operational experience in facilities, workplace, or campus management across a distributed footprint, including direct experience supporting mixed-use environments.
• Strong analytical and financial capabilities, including managing and forecasting complex OPEX and CAPEX budgets, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and using workplace utilization data to guide decisions.
• Tech fluency and comfort with fast-paced, real-time collaboration platforms such as Slack.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and scaling high-performing workplace teams and establishing a culture of high standards, agility, and accountability.
• Experience sourcing and negotiating with external vendors, service providers, and general contractors, and holding them accountable to strict SLAs and performance metrics.
• Ability to build trust and influence cross-functionally with partners including corporate executives, research scientists, hardware engineers, and manufacturing technicians.
• Bias for action and ability to navigate ambiguity, independently solve complex campus challenges, and lead through service and humility.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, along with 5 years of work experience, or an equivalent combination of experience in Workplace, Design, Construction, or Project Management.
• Ability to adapt swiftly to changes in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Direct daily operations across the Southern California footprint, maintaining high-uptime, functional, and safe corporate offices, sensitive R&D labs, and production and manufacturing facilities.
• Design, implement, and refine scalable operational standards and workplace playbooks to support campus growth.
• Partner with EHS, Manufacturing, Engineering, IT, HR, and business units to forecast space needs, remove friction, and support operational velocity.
• Use workplace analytics and quantitative data to track OPEX and CAPEX budgets, forecast expenditures, evaluate vendor performance, and optimize space utilization.
• Plan and execute facility upgrades in coordination with internal project teams and external contractors.
• Lead clear and timely operational communications, using platforms such as Slack to triage campus issues, coordinate incident response, and align stakeholders.
• Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing workplace team, fostering humility, accountability, high standards, agility, and customer-first service.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are part of Anduril’s total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits package, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees. Specific benefits are not listed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed