Staff Program Manager, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance)

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

The Connected Warfare division builds systems supporting global command and control missions through joint, time-sensitive, multi-domain connected mesh ecosystems. The ecosystem connects robots, people, and sensors across domains and provides a source of truth for time-sensitive decisions, helping militaries close kill chains and enable mission autonomy.

The Staff Program Manager owns program execution in partnership with the Chief Engineer, ensuring cost, schedule, and performance targets are met while exceeding customer and warfighter expectations. The role aligns engineering work with mission objectives, manages resources and tradeoffs, and develops effective planning, scope, risk-management, and execution processes. It coordinates teams across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, test and evaluation, operations, business development, customers, and industry partners. The position also supports technical proposals and helps scope, resource, and align potential projects and scaling opportunities with organizational capabilities and strategic goals.

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 success managing complex, multi-million-dollar projects and delivering them on time and on budget.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to move between tactical and high-level perspectives.
• Experience coordinating multiple internal and external teams within a complex engineering- or technology-focused organization.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills, including using data and metrics to support assumptions, recommendations, and decisions.
• Experience with tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Current TS/SCI clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Own overall program execution with the Chief Engineer, meeting cost, schedule, and performance targets and exceeding customer and warfighter expectations.
• Monitor and manage program resource allocation, making tradeoffs to deliver solutions on time and on budget.
• Understand program requirements and maintain open dialogue with customers so engineering efforts remain aligned with mission objectives.
• Develop and implement processes, tools, and metrics for program planning, scope management, risk management, customer communication, and execution.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, test and evaluation, operations, business development, and other teams.
• Build trusting relationships with Department of Defense customers and establish feedback loops to shape, iterate, and field solutions faster.
• Execute broad or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, customers, and third-party partners, delivering outcomes across multiple programs simultaneously.
• Become a trusted partner and advisor to engineers.
• Foster a creative, high-performance team culture and assess team skills against needs, identifying development and recruitment opportunities.
• Support drafting technical proposals and ensure potential projects and scaling opportunities are scoped, resourced, and aligned with organizational capabilities and strategic goals.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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