Staff Technical Project Manager

Anduril Industries•Costa Mesa, CA

11h•Onsite

About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Software Platform team builds the integrated platform behind Lattice, an AI-powered operating system, enabling data management, task orchestration, and interoperability across Anduril's product ecosystem. This role is for a Technical Program Manager to drive strategic, cross-functional programs within the Software Platform organization. The TPM will own programs end-to-end, aligning engineering, product, and business stakeholders, navigating ambiguity, and ensuring timely technical outcomes. This requires both technical depth and organizational leadership to translate complex engineering efforts into actionable plans, identify risks, and ensure accountability.

Requirements

12-15+ years experience as a TPM in a high-paced, software development environment.
Robust technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, trade-offs and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
Strong experience and familiarity in project management for software development; practical familiarity with a variety of methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited.
Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence as well as understanding of Agile and waterfall methodologies.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.
Experience in rolling out wide-ranging organizational process changes.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience in building programs for software deliverables from ground up.
Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
Professional certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, GIAC-PEN, Prosci, SAFe or PMP.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

Help define and execute the roadmap for SWP, working across groups to de-risk dependencies and keep teams aligned on what ships when.
Autonomously execute with a high degree of ownership on broad requirements, managing stakeholders across the Software Platform organization, Business Lines and other company partners simultaneously and delivering successful outcomes.
Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
Collaborate with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities that achieve company milestones, while supporting leads with staffing plans and prioritization.
Help define and serve as the Software Platform champion for our program management standards, tools, processes and mechanisms.
Track and communicate program progress, defining efficient processes for broader status updates and proactively managing issues and obstacles. Clearly communicate across all stakeholders, ensuring the dependencies and blockers made clear, and tracked and acted on consistently.
Stand up and maintain SWP-wide KPIs that give leadership real signal on progress, health, and bottlenecks.
Understand technical implementation at the architectural level, propose alternatives when necessary. Corral key performance indicators from across the business to help shape future organizational investments.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
Life and disability insurance for all employees.
Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.
Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching.
Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
Annual reimbursement for professional development.
Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.