# International Trade and Compliance Leader, APAC

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Sydney, New South Wales
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking an experienced international trade compliance leader to help build a best-in-class trade compliance program supporting the APAC region.

The International Trade Compliance team is responsible for providing strategic, high-level trade compliance advice and guidance to internal business and engineering teams as well as owning day-to-day tactical execution.

As the International Trade Compliance Leader, you will be responsible for driving international trade controls and policies to protect and guide the development of commercial dual-use and defence technology across the APAC region.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement trade compliance policies, protections, and infrastructure to ensure engineering/program development meets schedule objectives, consistent with ITAR, EAR, and local country laws/regulations of EU, UK, or Australia.

- Coordinate with external partners to ensure product roadmaps align with internal compliance posture and pivot accordingly.

- Develop country-specific classification decision rationale, heuristics, and methodology for Anduril programs to improve efficiency in classification while maintaining accuracy.

- Leverage AI for rapid risk-mitigated determinations.

- Support the release of technology and data to internal and external stakeholders.

- Deploy and maintain country-specific J/C training curricula and robust methodologies to meet cost and performance metrics.

- Apply for and manage country-specific export authorizations, when required.

- Oversee country-specific export authorizations, ensuring compliance with license scope, provisos, and associated conditions.

- Support the logistics team on hardware exports and imports as appropriate.

- Provide guidance and training to Anduril regional teams on ITAR, EAR, and country-specific regulations as appropriate.

- Perform compliance assessments, identifying and mitigating compliance risks, of export/import authorizations and related transactions and assist in any investigations of potential compliance issues.

- Lead working groups, independent projects, and collaborative efforts with within the compliance function or cross-functionally driving ITC program enhancements.

- Support and implement corrective actions that result from compliance issues.

- Navigate co-production, co-development, and offset projects across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with US export regulations and country-specific trade laws.

- Manage Defence export portal for license applications, tracking, and reporting (RR).

- Evaluate and review commodities, including hardware, software, and technical data, for export license eligibility under AUKUS and other international trade control frameworks.

- Communicate and collaborate with regulators and outside counsel to address export compliance matters.

- Stay updated on regulatory changes and export compliance requirements, providing timely insights and guidance to leadership.

Requirements:

- Understanding of engineering concepts across software and hardware and development principles.

- Strong understanding of the U.S. and non-U.S. export regulations.

- 10+ years experience in international trade compliance.

- Ability to obtain and maintain a NV2 Security Clearance.

- Ability to travel +25%

## Skills

### Required
- international trade compliance
- export control laws
- ITAR
- EAR
- AI-powered operating system

### Nice to have
- AUKUS partnership frameworks
- customs and import filings
- group 3-5 UAS
- UUVs
- robotic systems product development

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