# Staff Technical Program Manager, Game Development

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: 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 Sand Table team at Anduril develops a revolutionary platform for visualizing future defense scenarios, transforming massive amounts of data into an intuitive, interactive 3D command center.

We're looking for a Technical Program Manager to own execution for the Sand Table team,someone who will maintain our timelines, resolve dependencies, and keep everything on the rails towards final delivery.

**Responsibilities**

- Own execution end-to-end. Drive the team's delivery cadence from planning through release. Maintain timelines, track milestones, and ensure the team consistently hits its commitments.

- Resolve dependencies and remove blockers. Proactively identify cross-team dependencies, external blockers, and resource constraints.

- Protect the team's time and focus. Clearly articulate blockers, risks, and work in progress to stakeholders so the team can stay heads-down on delivery.

- Drive high-quality, consistent releases. Help establish and maintain release processes that ensure every build meets quality standards.

- Manage stakeholders and communication. Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across business development, product, and leadership.

- Coordinate demonstration logistics. Partner with the team to manage the complex logistics of delivering flawless XR demonstrations to critical audiences.

- Build and improve processes. Implement lightweight, effective processes for planning, tracking, and delivery that match the team's pace.

- Anticipate and mitigate risk. Maintain a living picture of technical, schedule, and integration risks.

**Required Qualifications**

- 8+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, Engineering Program Manager, or equivalent role delivering complex software products

- Demonstrated track record of owning execution for cross-functional technical teams and shipping on-time

- Strong technical literacy,ability to understand system architecture, software dependencies, build/release pipelines, and technical trade-offs without needing to write the code yourself

- High agency and intrinsic motivation; you move on problems before being asked and operate effectively with minimal direction

- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel work-streams, competing priorities, and shifting timelines

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills,able to build trust, set expectations, and clearly articulate status, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences

- Experience with project management tooling (Jira, Confluence, Linear, or equivalent) and establishing delivery processes for engineering teams

- Willingness to travel as needed for demonstrations and events (up to 25%)

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

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience in real-time 3D applications, game engines, XR, or graphics-intensive software development environments

- Background in defense, aerospace, or national security,understanding of the stakeholder landscape and demonstration culture

- Experience managing release processes for software with hardware-in-the-loop dependencies (XR headsets, specialized display systems, etc.)

- Familiarity with C++ development workflows, plugin architectures, or game studio production pipelines

- Experience coordinating live demonstrations or events with high-profile audiences with high-profile audiences and very-high stakes

- Track record of building program management processes from scratch in fast-moving, early-stage, or startup environments

- Experience managing programs with both software delivery and physical logistics components

- Active U.S. Secret (or higher) security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- Technical Program Management
- Engineering Program Management
- Project Management
- Software Development
- System Architecture
- Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Jira
- Confluence
- Linear

### Nice to have
- Real-time 3D applications
- Game Engines
- XR
- Graphics-intensive software development
- C++ development
- Plugin architectures
- Game studio production pipelines
- Live demonstration coordination
- Event management
- Program management processes
- Software with hardware-in-the-loop dependencies

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