Talent Marketplace Manager, Internal Mobility

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

3d • $142,000 - $188,000

About The Position

The Talent Marketplace Manager will join Anduril’s Internal Mobility team and own the design, implementation, and evolution of the internal talent marketplace within Wayfinder, the company’s internal mobility program. The role spans People Operations, Talent Acquisition Operations, and Division Operations, building the platforms, skills architecture, and matching capabilities that help employees discover internal opportunities and help the organization deploy and retain talent. The marketplace is intended to develop from an initial launch into a mature, skills-based platform with AI-enabled discovery and matching.

The manager will own platform strategy and the employee-facing experience; establish the skills taxonomy, data model, and data-quality governance; and drive launch, adoption, enablement, and marketplace governance. The role partners with the Mobility Operations Manager to connect marketplace activity to downstream mobility processes, and works across People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Compensation, HR Technology, and Division Operations. It also defines marketplace-health metrics and reporting, using data and feedback to improve matching and assess organizational impact.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in talent technology, HR technology, talent management, or internal mobility.
• Direct experience standing up or scaling an internal talent marketplace, skills-based talent platform, or comparable employee-facing talent product, including evaluation, implementation, launch, and iteration.
• Strong understanding of skills taxonomies, talent-matching methodologies, and supporting data infrastructure.
• Ability to understand data models, system integrations, and platform architecture well enough to drive technical decisions with engineering and HR Technology partners; coding is not required.
• Experience with HRIS platforms; Workday experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with applicant tracking systems; Greenhouse experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with the internal talent marketplace vendor landscape.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of new tools and programs through attention to user experience, enablement, and feedback.
• Strong analytical skills, including defining metrics, building dashboards, and using data to communicate program health and impact.
• Excellent communication skills, including presenting to leadership, coordinating across teams with different priorities, and translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to influence without authority across People, Talent Acquisition, HR Technology, and Division Operations.
• Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident) to satisfy federal contract requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a high-growth technology or defense environment.
• Workday experience.
• Greenhouse experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a product roadmap from initial marketplace launch through skills-based matching and AI-enabled discovery, owning sequencing, trade-offs, and delivery milestones.
• Own platform implementation and configuration, including solutions built in existing systems, integrations with third-party marketplace tools, or custom solutions; guide platform direction using adoption, performance, and user feedback.
• Own the employee-facing marketplace experience, including opportunity-posting quality, search and discovery, matching accuracy, and ease of navigation.
• Design and implement the skills taxonomy and data model with People Business Partners and Division leaders, defining relevant skills, role mappings, and methods for capturing, categorizing, validating, and maintaining skills data.
• Establish governance for data quality and skills validation.
• Develop and execute marketplace adoption plans for launch and expansion; create enablement materials, training, and feedback loops for employees, hiring managers, recruiters, and People Business Partners.
• Establish marketplace governance, including posting standards, transparent matching criteria, internal-candidate surfacing and prioritization, and integration with hiring and transfer workflows.
• Partner with the Mobility Operations Manager to connect marketplace activity to eligibility checks, compensation treatment, start-date coordination, and transition support.
• Coordinate across People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Compensation, HR Technology, and Division Operations on internal talent visibility and marketplace capabilities.
• Align internal-opportunity posting, skills-data use, marketplace tools, the broader talent technology stack, and People programs.
• Define and track metrics such as match quality, internal application rates, time-to-fill for internally sourced roles, platform engagement, skills coverage, and match-to-hire conversion.
• Build reporting that gives leadership visibility into marketplace impact, including cost savings versus external hires, retention effects, and the relationship between internal mobility and employee engagement.
• Use data to improve matching algorithms, identify skills-coverage gaps, and find areas of the organization underserved by the marketplace.
• Present to leadership, coordinate across teams with differing priorities, translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, and influence without direct authority.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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