# Senior Program Manager, Product Operations

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Huntsville, Alabama
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $144,000-$191,000 USD
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Program Manager, Product Operations to serve as a high-impact leader within the Tactical Recon & Strike (TRS) division.

The successful candidate will be a strategic problem-solver, deployed to tackle critical business challenges, mature products for high-rate production, and lead transformative internal initiatives.

Responsibilities:

- Execute with Precision: Dive deep into ambiguous and complex operational challenges, diagnose root causes, and drive solutions to completion.

- Optimize and Mature: Lead the transition of products from development to production readiness, focusing on process optimization, operational excellence, continuous improvement, design for manufacturability (DFM), and supply chain stability.

- Lead Transformation: Build and manage strategic initiatives, internal transformation efforts, or emergent opportunities that require dedicated, agile leadership to achieve specific, time-sensitive outcomes.

Key tasks include:

- Strategic Problem Solving: Act as an internal strike team leader to identify, analyze, and resolve the most complex operational, manufacturing, and business process issues that impede product maturity and scalability.

- Product Maturation Leadership: Own the operational strategy for transitioning products from development to stable production.

- Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Implement and champion a culture of continuous improvement using methodologies like Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC.

- Cross-Functional Initiative Management: Lead high-priority, cross-functional projects that span engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and finance.

- Data-Driven Operations: Develop and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor process health, identify risks, and provide transparent status updates to executive leadership on project status, risks, and milestones.

- Risk Identification & Mitigation: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate systemic risks,technical, operational, or logistical,that could impact the ability to scale production and meet customer demands.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or a related technical field.

- 5+ years of experience in program management, operations, or manufacturing, preferably in defense, aerospace, automotive, or other complex hardware industries.

- Demonstrated expertise in process excellence and continuous improvement methodologies.

- Proven track record of leading products through the maturation lifecycle, from low-rate initial production to full-rate, scalable manufacturing.

- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.

- Experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects and delivering them on-time and on-budget.

- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, supply chain management, quality systems, and production workflows.

- Outstanding communication and leadership abilities, with a proven ability to influence and align cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels.

- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:

- Master’s degree in a technical or business field.

- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

- Experience in a role focused on internal consulting, business transformation, or strategic operations.

- Experience launching new factories or production lines.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

- Income protection: life and disability insurance.

- Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.

- Family planning and parenting support.

- Mental health resources.

- Professional development: annual reimbursement for professional development.

- Commuter benefits.

- Relocation assistance.

- Retirement savings plan.

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## Skills

### Required
- Lean Six Sigma
- process excellence
- continuous improvement
- program management
- operations management
- manufacturing
- supply chain management
- quality systems
- production workflows
- analytical and problem-solving skills
- communication and leadership abilities

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in a technical or business field
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification
- internal consulting
- business transformation
- strategic operations
- launching new factories or production lines

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