# Senior Operations Lead

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Chantilly, Virginia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**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 Senior Operations Lead is a core member of the Space Special Programs Business Line leadership team, with a mandate to develop and scale the organization’s people and processes to maintain and grow our advantage as a technology-led, outcome-oriented systems integrator for the full spectrum of space missions.

## Responsibilities

- Organizational planning and development. Partner with the General Manager and their leadership team to develop and execute strategy for organizational planning and development.

- Implement tools and processes for generating data that can drive decisions.

- Define and track metrics for organizational health and performance.

- Design and implement governance structures, accountability mechanisms, and continuous improvement processes.

- Drive quarterly and annual planning cycles for Space Special Programs and prepare content for regular business reviews with the executive team and cross-functional partners.

- Cross-functional leadership. Coordinate action, align incentives, and drive accountability with supporting Divisions/Business Lines, Corporate/G&A/Functional orgs, and external Partners/Suppliers.

- Design and implement the Space Special Programs organizational API, a set of tools and processes that define the cross-functional operating model.

- Partner with FP&A to track financial health against business line goals, take actions to maintain operating expenses within budget, and recommend strategies to achieve margin targets.

- Partner with Corporate Technology to build the underlying data and system infrastructure for organizational operations and knowledge management.

- Partner with Growth, Revenue Operations, and Production to monitor pipeline health, identify material changes to forecast, and ensure production schedules are aligned with customer demand.

- Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition to build out and oversee headcount planning, hiring, staffing, onboarding, professional development, and performance management infrastructure and processes.

- Partner with Growth, Communications, Design, and Marketing to ensure successful announcements (internal and external), customer events, trade shows, and new product launches.

- Project execution. Drive day-to-day operations and develop internal processes/frameworks for efficient execution across the business line.

- Build your own independent portfolio as one of Space Special Programs’ key leaders, deeply diving into a set of organizational priorities that you drive as your own.

- Bootstrap new capabilities and lead cross-functional projects, owning their end-to-end execution from initial discovery to successful resolution.

- Generate and collect data, conduct analysis, and make recommendations to inform strategic investment decisions.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of working experience in a consulting, operations, finance, technical program management, product management, or business operations role.

- Strong communication skills across a wide dynamic range, both written and verbal.

- Strong emotional intelligence and ability to solve operational problems in a way that is both data-driven and people-centric.

- High ownership with the horsepower to effectively manage multiple large projects and priorities in parallel.

- Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

- Proven ability to understand the pace and lifecycle of spacecraft technical development, challenges and risks.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working at a technology and/or high growth company.

- Experience working in defense or aerospace.

- Experience working effectively in a matrix organization structure.

## Benefits

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

## Skills

### Required
- organizational planning
- data analysis
- project management
- communication
- emotional intelligence

### Nice to have
- defense
- aerospace
- matrix organization

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