International Trade and Compliance Leader, APAC

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%