Technical Program Manager, Mission Operations

Anduril • Quincy, MA

5d

About The Position

The Copperhead team develops high-speed, small-diameter autonomous undersea vehicles for critical commercial and defense missions. In a fast-paced environment, small teams move from concept to deployment in months, with an emphasis on urgency, action, and minimal bureaucracy.

The Technical Program Manager, Mission Operations manages the execution, growth, and success of customer-facing deployments. Working across program, engineering, logistics, and support-system teams, this role serves as a key interface for customer relationships and plans and deploys Anduril products in support of customer missions. The TPM works alongside customers and deployment-site teams to understand mission needs and shape deployment strategies with engineering teams. The role is accountable for customer and mission success.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of robotics and/or complex-systems experience, specifically in technical project management and/or systems engineering, or related project management and/or systems engineering experience in a relevant industry.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering or a related field.
• Passion for hardware development.
• Hands-on experience with AUVs and their deployment and operational use in applicable environments.
• Ability to translate system testing, integration, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of government contract structure and reporting.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Mission-first mindset, with urgency and a preference for good-enough results today over perfect results next quarter.
• Experience interfacing with DoD/USN customers.
• Experience leading or executing product development of any type of system from TRL 3–8.
• Currently possess and be able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison for the client, partner with the account lead to advocate for client needs within engineering, and ensure client feedback influences requirements generation.
• Coordinate engineering, logistics, and external client sites to support successful deployment of vehicles and support equipment for customer-facing demonstrations.
• Drive technical outcomes by understanding system performance, managing incident response and after-action reviews, using metrics to identify improvement areas, quantifying improvements, and communicating system status to customers.
• Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans, establish milestones, and drive initiatives from conception through completion.
• Oversee deployment of system hardware to customer sites.
• Autonomously execute broad or ambiguous external-client requirements and take ownership of assigned work.
• Build trusted partnerships with Anduril engineers.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.
• Collaborate with partner teams, including hardware, product, and test operations.
• Travel regularly to customer sites, ranges, and fleet locations, including overseas and shipboard locations, approximately 20%–50% of the time.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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