# Chief of Staff, Production

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Defense Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Chief of Staff, Production is an extension of the SVP of Production, a force multiplier who increases executive leverage across a hyper-growth organization.

## Responsibilities

- Context Management: Maintain continuity across every active thread, know what matters, what decisions were made, who owns what, and where escalation is needed.

- Operating Structure: Design and drive the operating cadence for the Production organization.

- Executive Filtering: Determine where the SVP must engage, where they should adjudicate, and where their directs should own resolution.

- Executive Extension: Represent the SVP's viewpoint credibly in internal forums, cross-functional meetings, and leadership discussions.

- Communications & Content: Own communications from the Production leadership team, all-hands content, email updates, and departmental rollouts.

- Strategic Initiatives: Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from scoping through execution.

- External Engagement & Events: Plan and execute VIP engagements, customer visits, investor visits, department summits, and all-hands events.

- Organizational Development: Help leaders prepare better, escalate smarter, and own outcomes, so the organization matures from reactive to operational.

## Qualifications

- 5+ years of progressive professional experience in strategic operations, business leadership, management consulting, or directly supporting senior executives in high-growth, complex environments.

- Demonstrated success in a Chief of Staff, or similar executive leverage role, with a track record of transforming how an organization operates.

- Technical or operational experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, advanced technology, or similar hardware-intensive industries.

- Proven ability to absorb executive context rapidly, operate with incomplete information, and accurately represent senior leadership's intent and judgment.

- Exceptional executive communication skills.

- Track record of building operating structure around fast-moving leaders, creating scalable systems, decision hygiene, and accountability.

- Self-driven and relentlessly proactive.

- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in a Science, Engineering, or related field; MBA or other advanced degree is a plus.

- Previous success as a Chief of Staff directly supporting C-suite or SVP-level executives in defense or technology companies.

- Familiarity with production environments, manufacturing operations, or hardware development lifecycles.

- Experience in organizations with significant government relations or regulatory components.

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic operations
- business leadership
- management consulting
- executive communication
- organizational development

### Nice to have
- production environments
- manufacturing operations
- hardware development lifecycles
- government relations
- regulatory components

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