# Program Manager (Special Projects)

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Santa Ana, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,000-$196,000 USD
**Category**: Product Management
**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.

Maritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. MDP builds and deploys the full technology stack that powers Anduril's shipbuilding factories.

As Program Manager for Special Projects/Triage, you will own the intake-to-execution lifecycle for manufacturing technology requests routed to MDP from ManTech stakeholders. You will scope work, define deliverables, coordinate execution across MDP teams, and ensure every project has explicit scope, timeline, exit criteria, and clear handoff.

Responsibilities:

- Own the intake and triage process for manufacturing technology requests from ManTech teams

- Define and maintain clear intake criteria

- Partner with ManTech stakeholders to understand their needs

- Scope and structure special projects with clear boundaries

- Coordinate project execution across MDP engineering teams

- Drive projects from kickoff through delivery and handoff

- Establish and enforce governance processes

- Build and maintain a portfolio view of all active special projects

- Facilitate kickoff meetings, status reviews, and retrospectives

- Identify patterns in incoming requests

- Work with MDP leadership to balance special project demand

- Document and communicate handoff criteria

- Build strong working relationships with ManTech stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in program management, project management, or technical program management roles

- Demonstrated ability to scope ambiguous requests into well-defined projects

- Strong stakeholder management skills

- Experience coordinating cross-functional execution

- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Strong organizational skills

- Ability to operate with high autonomy in ambiguous environments

- Demonstrated success setting boundaries and driving projects to closure

- Degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science, or related field

- U.S. Person status is required

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or production environments

- Background in software development, data engineering, or technical domains

- Experience building intake processes, triage frameworks, or governance mechanisms

- Familiarity with manufacturing systems

- PMP, Scrum Master, or equivalent project/program management certification

- Experience in hyper-growth startup-like environments

- Proficiency with project management tools

- Experience managing vendor relationships

- Background in customer-facing or internal consulting roles

- Understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies

- Experience in regulated industries

- Ability to travel occasionally to manufacturing sites

- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

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## Skills

### Required
- program management
- project management
- technical program management
- stakeholder management
- cross-functional execution
- project coordination
- communication
- organizational skills
- autonomy
- boundary setting
- project closure

### Nice to have
- manufacturing
- industrial
- production environments
- software development
- data engineering
- intake processes
- triage frameworks
- governance mechanisms
- manufacturing systems
- PMP
- Scrum Master
- hyper-growth startup
- project management tools
- vendor relationships
- customer-facing
- internal consulting
- software development lifecycle
- agile methodologies
- regulated industries

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