Senior Program Manager

Andurils Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Andurils product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product engineering business development logistics and operations the Maritime team develops tests deploys and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a leader in the Maritime Division you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate qualify manage and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the companys strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business lines success.

We are looking for someone to lead the technical development of maritime products from concept to delivery. You will work closely with Andurils Strategy team and strategic opportunity customers to develop these designs so that requirements are tied to customer inputs and there is traceability to program office technical decisions.

The spectrum of support will be diverse in nature and require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives build cross-functional teams and rapidly drive to completion. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience in programmatic level decisions will play a key component in making sure the right design analysis and test steps are being completed to ensure success. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.

• Lead manage and execute technical programs from early-stage design through to technology development system integration testing and deployment
• Integrate and immerse yourself in Andurils product development processes and build effective relationships with personnel across multiple business lines.
• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of engineering teams and more broadly across departments.
• Provide meaningful insight into current and future customer needs develop solutions provide accurate and timely accounting of resources and ensure crisp comms at all levels.
• Build trust with Anduril teammates vendors partners and potential customers and work closely with users vendors and government stakeholders through effective communication positive attitude and meticulous follow-through.
• Forge longstanding customer relationships by working closely with Anduril Growth personnel and help establish beach heads in new areas of interest.
• Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering program office and third-party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously.
• Coordinate and execute frequent test events from full-software simulations to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations at test sites
• 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.
• Identify resolve escalate key cross team dependencies.
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress identify gaps in communication or schedule manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.
• Understand the capabilities and limitations of Anduril systems and 3rd party this role you will work with engineers to connect the evolving product theses with the mission and customer requirements taking an expansive view and developing data-backed opinions on product direction.

• Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering Marine Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Naval Architecture or proven experience in a relevant field
• Minimum of 10 years experience with technical leadership and project management
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs software development lifecycle challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams
• Ability to obtain and maintain a NV2 Australian Security Clearance
• Travel >25% to customer and test sites some international

• Previous experience leading managing and executing technical programs/products from ideation and early-stage design to technology development system integration testing and deployment
• Significant customer-facing experience leading high profile and high stakes programs including strong interpersonal skills and executive gravitas
• Australian Navy experience as a Submarine Officer Surface Warfare Officer or significant experience with surface and sub-surface weapon sensor and mission systems
• Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities
• Experience working on mission critical Defence systems
• Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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