Staff Program Manager, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance)

Anduril • Columbia, WA

1d • $183,000 - $229,000

About The Position

The Staff Program Manager will own overall execution of Connected Warfare programs, meeting cost, schedule, and performance targets while exceeding customer and warfighter expectations. In partnership with the Chief Engineer, the role manages program resources and tradeoffs, maintains close customer dialogue, and ensures engineering efforts stay aligned with mission objectives.

The position develops and implements processes, tools, and metrics for program planning, scope and risk management, customer communication, and execution. It coordinates across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, test and evaluation, operations, business development, customers, and industry partners to deliver outcomes across multiple programs. The role also supports technical proposals and helps scope, resource, and align potential projects and scaling opportunities with organizational capabilities and strategic goals.

The Program Manager builds trusted relationships with Department of Defense customers and Anduril engineers, fosters a high-performance and collaborative team culture, and identifies team development or recruitment needs. The position requires a current TS/SCI clearance and willingness to travel up to 50%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field; a technical background is preferred.
• At least 8 years of program management experience in defense, national security, or aerospace.
• Proven track record managing complex, multi-million-dollar projects and delivering them on time and within budget.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to move between tactical details and the 30,000-foot view.
• Experience coordinating multiple internal and external teams within a complex engineering- or technology-focused organization.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including presenting complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills, including using data and metrics to support recommendations and decisions.
• Experience with tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Current TS/SCI clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Nice To Haves

• Technical background.

Responsibilities

• Own program execution, meeting cost, schedule, and performance targets and exceeding customer and warfighter expectations.
• Partner with the Chief Engineer to oversee program delivery.
• Monitor program resource allocation and make tradeoffs to deliver solutions on time and on budget.
• Understand program requirements and maintain customer dialogue to align engineering efforts with mission objectives.
• Develop and implement processes, tools, and metrics for program planning, scope management, risk management, customer communication, and execution.
• Coordinate across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, test and evaluation, operations, business development, customers, industry partners, and other internal teams.
• Build trusting relationships with Department of Defense customers and establish feedback loops to shape and rapidly iterate solutions.
• Execute broad or ambiguous requirements and own delivery of outcomes across multiple programs simultaneously.
• Act as a trusted partner and advisor to engineers.
• Foster a creative, high-performance team culture and assess team capabilities to identify development or recruitment needs.
• Support technical proposals and help scope, resource, and align potential projects and scaling opportunities.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior