Director of Air Maneuver Dominance & Maritime, International Trade Compliance

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

We are looking for an experienced international trade compliance leader with strategic vision to help build a best-in-class trade compliance program supporting MD.

Responsibilities

• Embed with program staff to develop and maintain tight program controls for commercial dual-use and export controlled technology for civil and defense customers
• Partner with senior leadership to shape strategic direction and turn trade compliance planning into action
• Play a critical role in developing trade compliance policies and be responsible for outcomes that balance compliance and business priorities
• Design and implement trade compliance policies, protections, and infrastructure to ensure engineering/program development meets schedule objectives
• Coordinate with external partners to ensure product roadmaps align with internal compliance posture and pivot accordingly
• Drive consistent export classification processes across MD global operations
• Develop classification decision rationale, heuristics and methodology for MD programs to improve efficiency in classification while maintaining accuracy
• Leverage AI for rapid risk-mitigated determinations
• Deploy and maintain J/C training curricula and robust methodologies to meet cost and performance metrics
• Oversee MD export authorizations, ensuring compliance with license scope, provisos and associated conditions
• Support the logistics team on hardware exports and controlled imports
• Provide guidance and training to MD staff on ITAR, EAR and international regulations
• Perform compliance assessments 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
• Develop strategy for multi-jurisdictional cross collaborative environments for data repositories
• Navigate co-production and co-development projects across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with US export regulations and international trade laws

Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 25%
• Understanding of engineering concepts across software and hardware and development principles
• +15 Years’ experience managing and providing subject matter-level expertise navigating and providing strategic advice concerning international trade regulations
• +10 years experience in product development, defense technology, startups, defense contracting or similar
• +5 years experience in trade compliance, international trade controls, international contracts management
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret clearance
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities