Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
The Copperhead team is responsible for the product development of high-speed small diameter undersea autonomous vehicles to support across critical commercial and defense mission sets.
We are in search of our next Technical Program Manager, Mission Operations. This Mission Operations (MOps) TPM is responsible for managing the execution, growth, and success of our customer-facing deployments.
Responsibilities:
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.
- Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, managing incident response and after-action, using metrics to derive insights into areas for improvement.
- Strategic Deployment and Execution: Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion.
- Execute Autonomously: Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients.
- Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.
- Regular travel to support customer sites, ranges, and fleet locations (including OCONUS/shipboard) approximately 20%-50% of the time.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of robotics and/or complex system experience, specifically in technical project management and/or systems engineering, or related project management and/or systems engineering experience in a relevant industry.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering or related field and a passion for hardware development.
- Hands-on experience working with AUVs and their deployment/operational use in applicable environments.
- Must be able to translate system test, integration, and troubleshooting.
- Understanding of government contract structure and reporting.
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Mission-first mindset: urgency matters, good enough today beats perfect next quarter.
- Experience interfacing with DoD/USN customers.
- Experience leading or executing product development of any type of system from TRL 3-8.
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.