Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Software

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

26d • Onsite

About The Position

The Maritime Digital Production (MDP) team is responsible for the software and digital systems that power Anduril's shipbuilding factories. This includes data infrastructure, manufacturing execution systems, scheduling engines, and AI systems. MDP operates at the intersection of Operational Technology and Information Technology, developing and scaling solutions close to the production line. The environment is fast-paced, physical, and critical, as system downtime directly impacts production. MDP is expanding and seeks an early-stage member to shape manufacturing software development at Anduril.

As a Senior Product Manager for Manufacturing Software, you will lead the product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for factory floor applications used by operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers. Your role involves deploying these products on the factory floor and collaborating closely with shipbuilders to ensure the software effectively integrates into their workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years in a software product management role or similar leading role in product development.
• Domain expertise within hardware-related industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, or logistics.
• Demonstrated ability to gather and refine both functional and non-functional requirements (such as capacity, performance, and reliability) and turn them into a prioritized backlog.
• Strong understanding of the interplay between enterprise systems, including ERP, WMS, MES, PLM, and supplier portals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort and to judge whether a request reflects a real underlying need.
• Demonstrated success working directly with end users in operational environments, including time spent on a production or factory floor observing workflows firsthand.
• Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics, representing the customer point of view and building alignment when priorities differ.
• Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts and arranging the correct sequencing.
• Proven ability to “see around corners” by crafting product strategy for 6 to 12 months into the future.
• Comfort maturing a product from MVP to enterprise-grade production.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or owning manufacturing execution systems (MES), shop floor control systems, or operational software for factory, warehouse, or field environments.
• Hands-on experience in manufacturing industries with time spent on assembly lines or in production facilities working directly with operators and technicians.
• Experience with UI / UX web design tools (e.g. Figma).
• Familiarity with frontier AI tooling and AI-assisted software development workflows.
• Experience in hyper-growth startup-like environments, balancing speed, ambiguity, and long-term platform health.
• Background in operations research, industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, or continuous improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Developing a long-term strategy that navigates complex product tradeoffs, integration dependencies, and buy versus build decisions to push the manufacturing software domain forward.
• Gathering and refining both functional requirements and non-functional requirements such as tool capacity, performance, and reliability, and synthesizing them into a prioritized backlog.
• Communicating across stakeholders and interested parties on roadmap and delivery, and exercising the judgment to tell whether a stakeholder truly needs what they are asking for or whether the underlying problem is better solved another way.
• Walking the factory floor, talking directly with technicians and operators about how their work is going, and turning what you hear into opportunities to fix and improve the product.
• Navigating the organizational dynamics between Maritime Digital Production and partner platform teams, advocating from the customer point of view when Maritime's needs differ from how a platform team would prefer to build.
• Exploring and incorporating technologies that enhance Anduril's operational leverage.
• Driving adoption and enablement of manufacturing software across production and operations teams.

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 you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

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